ARTICLE
A View of Egypt and the Land of Goshen from the Perspective of the Mid-16th Century BCE Exodus
Ľubomír PODHORSKÝ
volume 3, issue 1, 2011, pages 86-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsHUBT1387
Published online: 2011-06-01
Published in print: 2011-06-30
Abstract: From comparing the biblical indications on Canaan of the Conquest with the extra-biblical data (the absence of the Egyptians in the country, the Amorites as the dominant element, heavily fortified towns, the distribution of the various power centres in the country, the character of general destruction) I believe the Exodus happened in ca. 1550 BCE. By looking at this time in Egypt, the city of Ramzes could be the Hyksos „Avaris“ (only having a „katachronistic“ name) and the city of Pithom Tell er-Retabeh or Tell el-Maskhuta in the Wadi Tumilat. The wadi at that time and earlier was an ideal place for the semi-nomadic population. Also some contemporaneous finds from Tell el-Maskhuta are interesting. The wadi’s sites may have been abandoned earlier for mysterious reasons than the rest of the Hyksos sites. The Exodus-related pharaohs could be the Hyksos „Khayan“ and „Maaibre“, having some similarities to „Iannes and Iambres“ (2 Tim 3,8).