How Not to Create a History of the Exodus—A Critique of Professor Goedicke’s Theories - The BAS Library

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Footnotes

1.

Onomastic refers to names, especially a vocabulary of proper names.

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That is, the use of terms which did not come into existence until after the time-period in which the story purportedly takes place.

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Dr. Goedicke is not the first to associate the Hebrews in Egypt with the Hyksos. The Egyptian historian Manetho did so in the third century B.C. See Josephus, Contra Apion, I, 14f.

Endnotes

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See, for example, Leningrad Papyrus 1116A in “L’enseignement à Merikare” G. Posner, “Trois Passage de L’enseignement à Merikare,” Revue de Egyptologie, n. 7, 1950, pp. 176–180 and Eberhard Otto’s “Der Vorwrfan gott. zur Entstehung der Ägyptishan Auseinanderset-sungsliteratur,” Hildeshein, 1951, Vorträte in Marburg, Also the Leiden Papyrus 348, “Étude sur un rouleau magique du musée du Leide: Traduction analytique et commentaire du pap. 348 revers,” Etudes egyptologiques, Vol. 1, Willem Pleyte, Leiden: 1866.

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Strabo, 1, 3, 17 translated by H. C. Hamilton, George Bell & Sons, London: 1892, Chapter 3, verse 17.