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# The Sothic cycle allows only a hundred years for the Second Intermediate Period, also known as the [[Hyksos]] Era. [[Josephus]] gives a figure of 511 years.<ref name=Josephus1>Flavius Josephus. ''Against Apion,'' Book I, pgh. 84. Quoted in ''The Works of Josephus'', William Whiston, trans. Peabody, [[Massachusetts|MA]]: Hendrickson Publishers, 1984, pp. 778-779.</ref> The available monumental evidence supports the larger of these two figures--and in fact, Josephus cites Manetho himself for that figure.

# The Sothic cycle allows only a hundred years for the Second Intermediate Period, also known as the [[Hyksos]] Era. [[Josephus]] gives a figure of 511 years.<ref name=Josephus1>Flavius Josephus. ''Against Apion,'' Book I, pgh. 84. Quoted in ''The Works of Josephus'', William Whiston, trans. Peabody, [[Massachusetts|MA]]: Hendrickson Publishers, 1984, pp. 778-779.</ref> The available monumental evidence supports the larger of these two figures--and in fact, Josephus cites Manetho himself for that figure.

Finally, [[Young earth creationism|young earth creationists]] reject any scheme that would suggest or imply that the Egyptian state began any earlier than the [[Global Flood]]--which occurred [[Biblical chronology dispute#A Synoptic Table|no later than 2243 BC and possibly as early in time as 2563 BC.]]

Finally, [[Young earth creationism|young earth creationists]] reject any scheme that would suggest or imply that the Egyptian state began any earlier than the [[Great Flood]]--which occurred [[Biblical chronology dispute#A Synoptic Table|no later than 2243 BC and possibly as early in time as 2563 BC.]]

== Current Status ==

== Current Status ==