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DATING THE HEBREW EXODUS FROM EGYPT.—In the April issue of the Fortnightly Review Dr. H. R. Hall attempts to estimate the value of the recent startling discoveries in Egypt, but he defers a full appreciation until next winter's work and an examination, which must be protracted, of the objects in the tomb. More definite conclusions are reached by Mr. Arthur Weigall in the Empire Review for May. He identifies the 80,000 “unclean” people, whom Manetho says that one of the Pharaohs deported to the east bank of the Nile, with the heretic Aton-worshippers. Thus arises the question of the Hebrew “xodus, which tradition has associated with Rameses the Great, the best known of the Pharaohs. But it more probably occurred in the reign of Tutankhamen, 1358–1350 B.C., and this is corroborated by the Karnak inscription, which states that he was employing Asiatic slaves in his great work of rebuilding the temples ruined by Akhnaton, a result -which raises the question of the connexion of Hebrew monotheism with the earliest known monotheism of the Egyptians. It is also interesting to note that Tutankhamen in the same inscription speaks of Egypt as being plague-ridden in his reign.
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Research Items. Nature 111, 753–754 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111753a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111753a0