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ExodusProblems (10046 words) |
 | The first event is the Hyksos expulsion of circa 1540 BC, the second event is a Ramesside expulsion as preserved by the Hellenistic era Egyptian priest called Manetho who wrote a history of Egypt for his Ptolemaic Greek overlords in the 3rd century BC. |
| In all cases, 1540, 1446 or 1250 BC, there is no Sihon the Amorite at Heshbon (Tell Hesban) to hinder the Israelite advance on Canaan via the plains of Jericho, Heshbon not being settled until after 1200 BC according to the archaeological record. |
| Add this to 966 BC when the Temple was begun, and we have 1540 BC for the Exodus date, on the "testimony of the sacred writings" of the Jews and Early Christians. |
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Nubia - Crystalinks (6420 words) |
| B.C., the Kushite kings had moved south to the Sudanese savannah and built a capitol at Meroe. |
| At the end of the 4th millennium BC, kings of Egypt's 1st dynasty conquered upper Nubia south of Aswan, introducing Egyptian cultural influence to the African peoples who were scattered along the riverbank. |
| 719 BC), the whole of Egypt to the shores of the Mediterranean was brought under the administration of Kush. |
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