Genesis is true. We found Joseph.
Wed 6:25 pm +00:00, 1 Jul 2026 1History tells us that a mysterious race of invaders called the “Hyksos” conquered Egypt without a battle, burned its cities, and ruled as tyrants. But when archaeologists dig into the ruins of their capital, Avaris, they find no evidence of a war. So, who were they really?
In this episode, we investigate the theory that the “Hyksos” weren’t invaders at all; they were the family of Jacob. We’ll connect the dots between the biblical story of Joseph and the historical King “Salatis,” a name that isn’t Egyptian, but a Greek translation of the Semitic title Ha-Shallit (“The Governor”).
Join me as I brush away the sand from a Syrian-style palace in the Nile Delta, examine a smashed statue wearing a “coat of many colors,” and uncover how a dreamer became a king…and how the system he built to save Egypt became the “Iron Furnace” that would eventually enslave his own family.
Hyksos means shepherd kings. They moved away from worshipping the bull Taurus and moved Egypt’s focus of religion to Aries – the ram. This led to all kinds of friction resulting in the exodus of various members of Egyptian Royalty. One exodus was that of Gael and Scota and their son Hiber, whose descendants founded Ireland (called Scotia as in Nova Scotia) and Scotland called Hibernia after Hiber – same word as Hebrew their language, and the Ebro, their name for the delta of the Nile.