Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Karl,

Assuming that Moses actually did write the Pentateuch all 
by himself and assuming that the kings in question were 
Hyksos then the answer is: 

Since the Pentateuch ends with Moses death on the far side 
of the river Jordon, Moses would have had to have written 
it, or at least finished writing it, after the entire 
generation who left Egypt and knew slavery was dead. Moses 
wrote not for those freed from slavery but for all future 
generations, including us.

Strangely enough, this pretty much the same answer even if 
one believes that the Pentateuch was not written by Moses 
and the story is more appropriately set in the New Kingdom.


Jack Tladatsi