Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Dear Walter,

You are indeed right that your ideas are not going to settle well. And 
here is why: your method is inconsistent. You seem to be taking 
certain Biblical dating data very literally and adding it up to get 
the date of the Exodus, but other Biblical dates you arbitrarily write 
off: "Israel was not in bondage for 400 years in Egypt, that is 
fiction." In this you are being inconsistent, as also when you insist 
that the dating of the Exodus was correctly preserved but very little 
of the actual narrative is historically correct.

In fact you could argue, following Rohl and others, that Exodus 12:40 
should be read according to LXX and Josephus, that the 430 years 
mentioned were the time when the Israelites were in Canaan and in 
Egypt. Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews XV:2) suggests 215 years in 
Canaan from Abraham's arrival and 215 years in Egypt. That would tie 
up better with the Hyksos. It is unfortunate that it is only the dates 
and not the rest of the Exodus story which can be linked with the 
Hyksos.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Exodus and the Hyksos
Author:  <mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com> at Internet
Date:    27/01/2000 23:18


The Exodus and the Hyksos Expulsion

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