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== The "No Exodus" View ==

== The "No Exodus" View ==

Many Egyptologists dispute that an Exodus, as described in the Biblical text, actually occured. Various theories regard it either as an exaggerated folktale, remembering the colonial struggle between the Egyptians and the Mittanians, and later the Hittites, for control of Syria-Palestine, and the captives both sides took from the local population, or perhaps of the Hyksos, a West Semitic people who entered Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, and forcibly expelled by Ahmose I at the founding of the New Kingdom.

Many Egyptologists dispute that an Exodus, as described in the Biblical text, actually occurred. Various theories regard it either as an exaggerated folktale, remembering the colonial struggle between the Egyptians and the Mittanians, and later the Hittites, for control of Syria-Palestine, and the captives both sides took from the local population, or perhaps of the Hyksos, a West Semitic people who entered Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, and forcibly expelled by Ahmose I at the founding of the New Kingdom.

the reasoning for such views is the lack of archaeological and textual evidence for the use of foreign labour on the truly massive scale depicted in the Biblical text, and the lack of evidence concerning it's sudden departure and ensuring conflict on the Red Sea, as well as the fantastical events that ensured.  

the reasoning for such views is the lack of archaeological and textual evidence for the use of foreign labour on the truly massive scale depicted in the Biblical text, and the lack of evidence concerning it's sudden departure and ensuring conflict on the Red Sea, as well as the fantastical events that ensured.