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  • From: "Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Exodus and the Hyksos
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:10:46 -0500


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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