The Expulsion of the Hyksos: Tel Habuwa excavations reveal the conquest of Tjaru by Ahmose I

Tomb painting from Beni Hasan, Egypt. -- A figure named Abisha and identified by the title Hyksos leads brightly garbed Semitic clansmen into Egypt to conduct trade. Dating to about 1890 B.C.E., the painting is preserved on the wall of a tomb carved into cliffs overlooking the Nile at Beni Hasan, about halfway between Cairo and Luxor. In the early second millennium B.C.E., numerous Asiatics infiltrated Egypt, some of whom eventually gained control over Lower Egypt for about a century and a half. The governing class of these people became known as the Hyksos, which means "Rulers of Foreign Lands."

King of the Wild Frontier (Hyksos art and architecture in the Sinai)
Al-Ahram Weekly | 2005 | Nevine El-Aref
Posted on 08/15/2005 7:33:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Thought provoking and always leaving more questions than answers when doing the readings.....

Fascinating. Thanks for your posts.

A school of thought that is gaining ground is that the traditional Manethan chronology of Egypt may be off by hundreds of years. Velikovsky suggested this in one of his books and also posited that an unnamed “one” who helped Ahmose drive the Hyksos out of Egypt was Solomon.

If you google “Sinai inscriptions”, and then select “images”, you can view graffiti left by Hebrew slaves working in the mines there. They reference a lot of biblical things, including some fellow called Moses, who is alleged to have “frightened” or “startled” Egypt...

Thanks. That is great info. I hadn’t heard of it before.

Is it normal to identify Hyksos with Canaanites?

group of Asiatics from Avaris

Pretty sure this would line up with things David Rohl has written about.

ML/NJ

Interesting.

Do you have any date(s) on these “Sinai inscriptions” and “images”? Especially the ones that reference Moses?

Sinai inscriptions
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It's one of the consequences of relying a priori on a pseudochronology of the 2nd IP/New Kingdom of Egypt.

Velikovsky remains generally correct, while the conventional pseudochronlogy remains screwed up; the 600 year gap is still there, but has been fiddled with, such that the authors of "Centuries of Darkness" claimed that the gap was about 300-350 years; where Rohl agrees with Velikovsky, he too is correct, and where he disagrees he's incorrect.

Rohl keyword, chrono sorted:

here Rohl agrees with Velikovsky, he too is correct, and where he disagrees he's incorrect.

Not sure whose words these are, but I would be interested in an example or two where the two disagree and Rohl is incorrect.

ML/NJ