New King of Egypt who knew not Joseph
by Damien F. Mackey “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph”. Exodus 1:8 Introduction Did not know Joseph? The same sort of thing is repeated in Acts 7:18: “Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt”. But surely everyone in Egypt knew about the great Joseph who had saved the country, and its neighbours, from a severe seven-year Famine. As the sage Vizier, Imhotep, Joseph’s reputation would only go on increasing down through the ages, until, by the Ptolemaïc era, he was a veritable canonised and divinised thaumaturgist to whom the hopeful Egyptians and pilgrims would pray for cures and other needs. Imhotep - Wikipedia “Two thousand years after his death, Imhotep's status had risen to that of a god of medicine and healing . Eventually, Imhotep was equated with Thoth , the god of architecture, mathematics, and medicine, and patron of...