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- Title
Joseph the Infiltrator, Jacob the Conqueror? Reexamining the Hyksos--Hebrew Correlation.
- Authors
GEOBEY, RONALD A.
- Abstract
The anachronisms in the story of Exodus have long complicated claims to its historicity, yet some of the "usual suspects" endure. Scholarly tradition has generally argued that the expulsion of the so-called Hyksos rulers of Egypt in the sixteenth century BCE was the foundation for the Israelite cultural memory of liberation from Egypt. With the shit in biblical scholarship toward the Persian and Hellenistic periods regarding the crystallization of the biblical texts, scholarship has moved away from extrabiblical correlations pertaining to more ancient contexts. This trend, combined with locating earliest Israel within a generic "Canaanite" milieu, has led to the devaluation of the place of Egypt in discussions of Israel's origins. In this article, I reexamine the "Hebrew--Hyksos" correlation, with a view to defending the great antiquity of memories of interaction with Egypt that were appropriated by developing Israel.
- Subjects
LITERARY errors &; blunders; BIBLE. Exodus; HYKSOS; EGYPTIAN history to 332 B.C.; COLLECTIVE memory; CANAANITES
- Publication
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2017, Vol 136, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0021-9231
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jbl.2017.0001