The second account of a Semitic invasion and sacking of Egypt and the question of its historicity: {Josephus continues:} 15. But now I shall produce the Egyptians as witnesses to the antiquity of our nation. I shall therefore here bring in Manetho again, and what he writes as to the order of the times in…
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Reflections on the «Historicity» of the Exodus
As many are aware of, the Old Testament or the Tanakh (including the Torah) sets forth the extraordinary claim, accepted by traditional “Judaisms” and “Christianities”, that the “Israelites” spent some 400 years in Egypt – many of them as slaves. (Genesis 15:12–14 (“four hundred years”), Exodus 12:39–41 (“four hundred and thirty years”, c.f. Genesis 11:17),…