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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    How many times do I need to say this to you. I am not claiming that the Hyksos were the Israelites, ok?
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    Those dates are approximate. "Ahmose's reign can be fairly accurately dated using the Heliacal rise of Sirius in his successor's reign, but because of disputes over from where the observation was made, he has been assigned a reign from 1570–1546, 1560–1537 and 1551–1527 by various...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    The pyramids don’t have anything to do with this. The bible doesn’t claim that Jews built the pyramids. It talks about israelites being enslaved and made to build ‘store cities’ for the pharaoh. There’s evidence that semites were indeed enslaved during the Hyksos period at Avaris, as I noted in...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    That's not really what the archaeological evidence suggests. See my previous comments.
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    See my earlier comment in response to sooda. According to archaeological dating, Jericho was destroyed by an invading army around 1500 BC. This is around 40 years after the approximate date of the end of the Hyksos period. It fits well with the exodus story if it happened in the Hyksos period...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    ^ Unfortunately David Rohl can't see the wood for the trees and thinks that the exodus happened before the Hyksos period. This is partly because he wants to fit everything into his nutty 'new chronology' which requires redating everything by hundreds of years. And it also doesn't seem to occur...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    That's a common mistake. The city of Pi-Ramesses was built directly on top of Avaris. Avaris was founded in the Middle Kingdom and 'Canaanites' started settling there around 1810 BC. Around 1780 BC a modest palace was built there which was occupied by an 'asiatic' (i.e. Semitic) high official...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    'Shepherd kings' appears to be a misunderstanding or mistranslation. The Hyksos ruled over 'the shepherds', i.e. the canaanite (Israelite) shepherds who had settled in the Egyptian Delta prior to the Hyksos invasion. The Hyksos enslaved them. But because the Hyksos were themselves partly...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    "In 1868, Charles Warren identified Tell es-Sultan as the site of Jericho.[4] In 1930–36, John Garstang conducted excavations there and discovered the remains of a network of collapsed walls which he dated to about 1400 BCE. Kathleen Kenyon re-excavated the site over 1952–1958 and demonstrated...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    "The Hyksos practised horse burials, and their chief deity, their native storm god, Hadad, they associated with the Egyptian storm and desert god, Set [Seth].[3][7] The Hyksos were a mixed people of mainly Semitic-speaking origin.[3][8] The Hyksos are generally held to have contained Hurrian and...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    There’s plenty of evidence that they lived in Egypt, but it dates from c.1800 BC to c.1550 BC. Hyksos rule is either c.1700 to c.1550 BC, or c.1660 to c.1550 BC. Around 1550 BC several things happened: 1) the Thera volcanic eruption. This could have caused many of the phenomena described in...
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    The Pharoah of the Exodus was the Hyksos king Apophis.

    Many people have surmised that maybe the Hyksos were the Israelites of the Bible. Josephus made this claim, based on the Egyptian Manetho. However this seems to me to be based on a simple mistake, which results in a lot of confusion. The mistake is that the Hyksos were not the Israelites, they...
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