Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

It's definitely worth considering. Egyptian chronology is, of course,  
to be suspected.

The only problem I really see is this. The pyramids are not made of  
baked straw based bricks.

James Christian

Quoting K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>:

> Bryant:
>
> Like James, I had trouble accepting that Ramases II was the pharaoh of
> the Exodus, and like you I concluded that the Hyksos played a part. I
> concluded on the basis of the text of Exodus that the pharaoh of the
> Exodus was one of the last, if not the last, of the Hyksos pharaohs
> where the possibility of plagues having weakened the Hyksos
> sufficiently that the native Egyptians could then expel them.
>
> Since then I came across
> http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i1/moses.asp which, better than
> I can repeat him, makes the case that the pharaoh of the Exodus was a
> 13th dynasty pharaoh.
>
> There are a few things we can say for certain that the text of Tanakh
> claims: that the Exodus happened in the mid 15th century BC, leaving
> Egypt shattered and defenseless; that this event happened either 215
> (LXX) or 430 (MT) years after Jacob moved to Egypt; that it was
> sudden; and that it involved a large number of people. All of these
> conditions fit the 13th dynasty Egypt, and are possible for a Hyksos
> period Exodus (where Egyptian destruction of records would have erased
> Egyptian record of the Exodus). The other option is that the text of
> Tanakh is not accurate history.
>
> The only thing we can say for certain is that if Tanakh is correct,
> then Egyptian history is a mess, and centuries wrong. And if the
> Manetho based Egyptian history is correct, then the Bible is
> hopelessly wrong.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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