... This is the key literary (irony) and theological (Yahweh`s control of the situation despite appearances to contrary) point.
How would either of these point be served by the author if the king in question were Hyksos? As is agreed, the fact that of he very existence of the Hyksos was (and is) largely unknown. Even if the author were aware of this historical nuance, it would be counter-productive to try to use this nuance in story. ...
This is an entirely different issue from what occurred historically in Egypt during the Hyksos period and any role the Israelites might have played then. This is an archeologically issue that does not inform the translation or meaning of Ex 1.
It is also an entirely different question from how Ex 1 was composed and how the historical events in Egypt may have influenced its composition. If we accept that Moses is the only author who composed it after the Exodus and he himself understood all of these nuances, he made no serious effort to incorporate them into the text. ...
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