Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>]

On Sep 19, 2005, at 12:50 AM, Read, James C wrote:
>  Anyway, I didn't Raamses in the 10th century and your  
> misunderstanding
>  on this is based on a (bad) interpretation of what I wrote. I was  
> saying
>  that both a date of tenth century for the exodus and the  
> concurrent pharoah
>  being RaamsesII were demonstrably false. That you tie the two  
> together
>  is your own perogative but not what I intended you to understand.
[end quote]

James, who in the world dates the exodus to the 10th century (other  
than perhaps a few ... er ... I think the polite word would be  
"idiosyncratic" web sites)? The scholarly literature is full of 15th- 
century advocates and 13th-century advocates, but not 10th.

Chris

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