“Moon of Israel”, published in 1918, is a romantic story of love of Egyptian pharaoh to a beautiful young woman of Israel. The action takes place during the period of Jew’s walkout form Egypt. The novel was written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, The British author, fascinated by the boundless spaces of African veldt, landscapes and life, history, culture and legends of the inhabitants, what reflected in his numerous adventure novels.
This book suggests that the real Pharaoh of the Exodus was not Meneptah or Merenptah, son of Rameses the Great, but the mysterious usurper, Amenmeses, who for a year or two occupied the throne between the death of Meneptah and the accession of his son the heir-apparent, the gentle-natured Seti II. Of the fate of Amenmeses history says nothing; he may well have perished in the Red Sea or rather the Sea of Reeds, for, unlike those of Meneptah and the second Seti, his body has not been found.