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Rameses in the Bible
also known as: Ramesses, Ramses, Raamses, and Rhamses
This was the name of 2 Biblical places and various Pharaohs, including Ramesses II, known as Ramesses the Great—so named because he was the greatest, most celebrated, most powerful pharaoh of the most powerful period in ancient Egypt, the New Kingdom. He built many cities, monuments, statues, obelisks, adn temples, including the temple Abu Simbel in Nubia and the Ramesseum at Thebes.
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Rameses, the region
“The land of” Rameses (Genesis 47:11) was probably “the land of Goshen” 45:10
After the Hebrews had built Rameses, one of the “treasure cities,” it came to be known as the “land” in which that city was built.
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Rameses, the city
This is a storage city built by the Israelite slaves in Egypt.
And a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply and it be in the event of war, that they also join themselves to those who hate us and fight against us and go up from the land.”
So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labors. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses. —Exodus 1:11
The city bearing this name (Exodus 12:37) was probably identical with Zoan, which Rameses the Great (“son of the sun”) rebuilt. It became his special residence, and ranked next in importance and magnificance to Thebes.
Huge masses of bricks, made of Nile mud, sun-dried, some of them mixed with stubble, possibly moulded by Jewish hands, still mark the site of Rameses. This was the general rendezvous of the Israelites before they began their march out of Egypt.
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Pi-Ramesses, a city
Its full name is Pi-Ramesses Aa-nakhtu, meaning “Domain of Ramesses, Great in Victory”. This city was dominated by huge temples and Ramesses the Great’s vast residential palace, which include a zoo.
The ruins are near modern Qantir, Egypt. “The colossal feet of the statue of Ramesses are almost all that remains above ground today. The rest is buried in the fields.”
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Ramesseum
also known as: Rhamesséion (French)
This is a very large mortuary temple complex built by Ramesses the Great in Thebes (aka No) in the Egyptian city of Luxor, on the west side of the Nile River. It included a gigantic statue of Ramesses. This place was for his worship as a god on Earth.