...It is now possible to make regular trips from Thebes/Luxor to the Delta area, courtesy of the comfortable night train or a flight, but in Joseph's time it would have been many days' journey each way, something very rarely possible for a busy government minister. More likely Joseph lived in the Delta or not far from it, e.g. Memphis or the nearby Middle Kingdom capital of Itj-tawy, if not at the Hyksos capital Avaris which was in the eastern Delta near to the other Israelites.
From all of these, I get the picture that Joseph was stationed in Thebes
under an Egyptian pharaoh. He was a distance away, but close enough that he
could make regular trips to visit his family.
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As for the name Raamses for a city name, it is mentioned in Genesis from
before the Hyksos period. It was one of the major production cities during
the Hyksos period. Is there enough information to rule out that that was a
city that was destroyed when the Hyksos were expelled, and never rebuilt? Or
if rebuilt, had a different name?
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