Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00690)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, samblo@c... wrote:
> Seems to me at least that Who we are really talking about being run 
out of 
> Egypt at
> spear point were the enigmatic "Hyksos" who according to some were 
the people 
> that
> actually founded the city called "Jerusalem"

The Hyksos (literally Shepherd Kings) were actually driven out by 
Ahmose I, who founded the Eighteenth Dunasty. That was 500 years 
before the exodus, which makes Jerualem some 3800 years old. Manetho 
says Moses sent an embassy to Hierosolyma (the ancient name for 
Jerusalem) to enlist their aid in his campaign against Egypt. That 
of course would have heightened the anxieties of the Egyptians, who 
were already fearful of being overrun bu foreigners.