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The Date of the Exodus (8201 words) |
 | The early date is usually placed in the middle 15th century around 1440 BC, while the late date is usually assigned to the close of the 13th century around 1290 BC. |
| This is the primary origin of the 1440 BC date for the exodus. |
| If the Israelites were already well established in the land, as the 1440 BC date of the exodus would suggest, they would have been continually battered by the incursions of these two pharaohs as they marched north to engage the Hittites in Syria and eastern Asian Minor. |
| Wikinfo | Mitanni (437 words) |
| It was a feudal state led by a warrior nobility. |
| By approximately 1350 BC, the Mitanni kingdom had weakened, and had become practically dependent on the Hittites, then under the rule of Shuppiluliuma I. |
| Assyria, previously under Mitanni control, was able to assert its independence during the reign of Ashuruballit I in approximately 1330 BC. |
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