I have already expressed my opinion here that GOSHEN is a variant
(possibly an intentional fudge by later editors) of KOSHEN, the land
of KUSH (related to KASHAH, QASHAH, GUSH and GAZIT, 'mass, lump'. See
Job 7:5), or Ethiopia and southward, and that the crossing from
Africa to Asia took place at bab el mandeb.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:13 AM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:
to help confirm that Biblical “Goshen” in the Patriarchal
narratives may be Egyptian nome 14: Qis/Kis, in central Egypt.