Let My People Go and Go and Go and Go
Egyptian records support a centuries-long exodus
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Endnotes
If the Apiru are, as I suggest, connected with the Hebrews, this would rule out the suggested connection with the Shasu, another group sometimes alleged to be connected with the emerging Hebrews/Israelites.
Although every Israelite is a Hebrew and likely an Apiru, not every Hebrew or Apiru is necessarily an Israelite.
Alan H. Gardiner, “The Ancient Military Road Between Egypt and Palestine,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 6 (1920), pp. 99–116; Eliezer D. Oren, “‘Ways of Horus’ in North Sinai,” in Egypt, Israel, Sinai, ed. Anson F. Rainey (Tel Aviv: Dayan Institute, Tel Aviv Univ., 1987), pp. 69–119.
John A. Wilson in James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 258.