To answer that question, we first need to find our bearings in the whole history of Egypt which covered over 3,000 years, to discover when, in its long history, the Hebrews were present in Egypt.
Egyptian history is divided by historians, for ease of understanding, into the Old, Middle, New and Late periods. Periods of invasion or unrest divide the Old from the Middle and the Middle from the New Kingdoms. The Late period is too late to be relevant to this study
History
Through the sands of time, the great civilization of Ancient Egypt emerged, leaving an indelible mark on history with its majestic pyramids, enigmatic sphinx, and the enduring legacy of a society that embraced the mysteries of life and the afterlife.
Dating the Exodus
The dating of the Exodus, how did two different dates arise?
In 1822, Jean-Francois Champollion, the French Egyptologist and linguist achieved his first true breakthrough in the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, with the decipherment of the two Pharaonic names, ‘Ramesses’ and ‘Thutmose’. This must have caused great excitement throughout the world of biblical scholarship because the Bible had always retained the name ‘Ramesses’ in the opening chapter of the book of Exodus. ‘Ramesses’ was a store city, built for the storage of grain and it was built by the Hebrew slaves.
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