Endnote 34 – The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality?

Deuteronomy 2:5–l2, 9–11, 19–21. In the Deuteronomic presentation the Philistines, “who went out from Caphtor (on Crete),” are part of the divinely ordered succession to the giant aborigines (cf. Amos 2:9)—Deuteronomy 2:23. The ethnology of this chapter is identical to that of Genesis 14.