Documentary, Press & Media — Ralph Ellis

Short biography

Ralph Ellis was born on 7 December 1956. He is a British independent historical researcher, working from Cheshire and publishing as Edfu Books, and he is not the American novelist of the same name. His work asks what becomes visible in the secular record once the inherited biblical dates are set aside.

Extended biography

Ralph Ellis is a British independent historical researcher, born 7 December 1956, working from Cheshire and publishing as Edfu Books. He works independently of any seminary or faculty. He founded the imprint in 1997 so the books could be published without a university press or a church house deciding what was fit to print. Across the Egyptian Testament and the King Jesus books he identifies the Exodus with the Hyksos expulsion, Jesus with a king of Edessa and a great-grandson of Cleopatra, and the later Arthurian stories with the memory of that king in Britain. Those identifications are his, and they are not the accepted conclusions of scholarship. The longer account is on the biography.

Research subjects

• Ancient Egypt and the Exodus
• Biblical chronology, as he reconstructs it
• Jesus and Edessa
• The Jewish Revolt and the gospel king
• King Arthur and the Arthurian stories
• Ancient monuments and megalithic sites
• Ice ages, in the 2016 paper with Michael Palmer

Suggested interview topics

A producer can start from any of these. Each is a subject he discusses. None is offered here as a result that scholarship has settled.

• The Hyksos and the biblical Exodus. He follows Josephus, who quotes Manetho on the shepherd kings at Avaris, and he reads their expulsion as the Exodus. The investigation map draws that direction, from Avaris toward Syria. It is not a surveyed path. The lecture · The Exodus, filmed by Matty
• Chronology and the Egyptian Testament. He sets biblical figures beside Egyptian rulers. The ordinary Egyptian dates and his revised identifications are kept apart. The Hyksos and Avaris
• Jesus and the kingdom of Edessa. Edessa and Osroene are historical. His proposal is that the gospel king was a king there during the Jewish Revolt. The lecture · Edessa, Cleopatra, and the Gospels
• Arthurian tradition. He reads the later stories as a British memory of that king. No first-century text uses the name Arthur. The lecture · Knights Templars created Arthurian legend
• Ancient monuments. The pyramid and megalith books, as studies of measure and alignment, rather than as a claim that an excavation has confirmed a biblical identification. Megaliths of the Near East

Official press photograph

Portrait of Ralph Ellis. Please credit ralphellis.uk when it is used.

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Books

• Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs
• Jesus, King of Edessa
• The Grail Cypher

The full catalogue

Interviews

These conversations were filmed by Matty for the Vocation channel, which holds the full archive.

• The Exodus
• Edessa, Cleopatra, and the Gospels
• Knights Templars created Arthurian legend
• What causes ice ages

Lectures

• Egypt and the Exodus
• Jesus, King of Edessa
• King Arthur

Practical questions