Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Marianne,

You wrote:

> AND these same
> historians that tell this story maintain that an exodus did not actually occur
> 430 years after Abraham (which puts them at odds with some other ancient
> historians, but in the year 490 BCE--sixty years later--in the reign 
> of a certain
> "Achencheres"--the same name that occurs more than once in Manetho's 18th
> Dynasty.  That is why Syncellus the Monk, who gave us Eusebius' 
> version of that
> dynasty, makes the remark that Moses must have been quite young in 
> 430 BCE--if 60
> years later he conducted an exodus.


HH: Please tell me you didn't want the "BCE" after these numbers, but 
rather 490 years after Abraham versus 430 years.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard