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Thanks gleeaikin.

The figure I read would put Exodus well before the reign of Ramases the great. Who I figure was strong enough to swat down those pesky slaves. I see it as happening around the time of Hatshepsut (1473-1458) and Tutmosis III (1479-1425) -- Eighteenth Dynasty, dates approximate.

Speaking of chronology revisions and pseudochronologies, the New Kingdom dates are off. This has been confirmed at least twice using RC dating -- which is why Zahi Hawass (among others) claim that RC dating doesn't work right on Egyptian artifacts. The actual canopic jars of Ramses II had their contents (his guts) RC dated a few years back, and (just as Velikovsky wrote in the 1970s) the conventional date is wrong by over 700 years.

Hatshepsut's surviving official account of her arrival in the Holy Land actually names the port official that is preserved from King Solomon's time. And the prophet Samuel killed the last of the Hyksos pharaohs (named in the Old Testament, with a slight transliteration of the name), an event that corresponds to the end of the 2nd Intermediate Period in Egypt, and the beginning of the 18th Dynasty.

Thanks for this post Civ. I’ve recently started reading a PDF version of Ages in Chaos and this thread’s author seems to be working already well plowed ground. The more I read/learn of Velikovsky the more I’m inclined to pay closer attention to his work. Now about the sun standing still...

I tried checking several different king/pharoah lists, but was not favorable impressed as they did not identify sources. Finally went to Wikipedia which does identify its sources. The figures there for the 18th Dynasty are almost identical to the ones I used in forming my hypothesis even though my book was published 30 years ago. Dates for other dynasties were not alway the same., some off by 10 or 20 years, and early ones by a century or more.