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 | | The notion of Hebrews being slaves in Egypt could have been drawn from Canaanite Apiru slaves laboring on Egypt's monuments any time from the 18th through the 20th dynasties, torn out of their historical contexts, and garbled together with the dim memory of the Hyksos expulsion. |
 | | In advocating the Hyksos Expulsion as the historical kernal, I find an event of great moment, the birth of a new Egypt, the so-called "New Kingdom Period." It was also a traumatic moment for Canaan, she lost her independence, becoming a vassal, and her peoples were enslaved to build Egypt's monuments. |
 | | Surely the memory of this great event, the Expulsion of the Hyksos in 1540 BCE and the enslavement of Canaan, is what must lie behind Acts 13:18-21 chronology (matching Kitchen's "alternate" 1540 BCE Hyksos expulsion date). |
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