Type:		Book, Chapter
Title:		Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times: Egypt and the Hebrew Kingdoms
Author(s):		Redford, D. B.
Date:		1993
Notes:		None of this [exodus from Egypt story] suggests a close familiarity with Egypt. . . . It takes little discernment to recognize in the first plot pattern a repeated motif in Egyptian history--Thebes in the south had thrice attempted to spearhead wars of liberation against the north--but in its present formulation the story owes more to the national fervor awakened by the disastrous invasions (or attempted invasions) of the Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Persian states from 671 to 525 B.C. The second story-type, on the other hand, has deeper roots, although it too was shaped and brought to relevance by the ubiquity of foreign enclaves in Egypt from Saite times on. As we have them from the Hellenistic age--none earlier have survived--examples show that both plot patterns could be welded into a single tale, athough they also appear separately(97). Certainly the earliest to come down to us in detailHecataeuS of Abdera bears an earlier but imperfect witnessis the account in Manethos "Aegyptica" (first half of the third century B.C.)(98). The bare bones of Manethos account runs as follows:
Abstract:		Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. In the vivid and lucid style that we expect from the author of the popular Akhenaten, Redford presents a sweeping narrative of the love-hate relationship between the peoples of ancient Israel/Palestine and Egypt.
Publisher:		Princeton University Press
Link:		http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5036.html