Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition

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academic monograph

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Oxford University Press

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• relationship Exodus tradition — narrates geography including — Sinai and Egyptian frontier
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · geography and route chapters

  Supports relation.

• event Formation and redaction of surviving Exodus traditions
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · proposes interpretation · Egyptian setting and route chapters

  Provides historical-memory arguments.

• causal hypothesis Plural-memory model for Exodus traditions
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · proposes interpretation · Egyptian setting evidence

  Supports possible memories.

• myth interpretation Sea crossing as deliverance and boundary-crossing motif
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · proposes interpretation · geography and route chapters

  Provides historical-setting alternatives.

• myth interpretation Exodus as plural cultural memory and foundation charter
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · proposes interpretation · Egyptian-setting arguments

  Supports possible historical memories.

• entity Exodus tradition
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · proposes interpretation · chapters on Egyptian setting and route

  Argues for historically informed memories.

• ranked model Exodus historical-memory models
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · proposes interpretation · Egyptian setting

  Supports historical core.

• date assertion Formation and redaction of surviving Exodus traditions — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · proposes interpretation · Egyptian setting and route chapters

  Provides historical-memory arguments.

• date assertion Exodus tradition — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · proposes interpretation · Ramesside setting and route chapters

  Supports this hypothesis.

• claim No currently identified contemporary New Kingdom Egyptian text directly reports the biblical mass Exodus event as narrated.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · proposes interpretation · use of indirect Egyptian setting evidence

  Shows argument relies on contextual rather than direct attestation.

• claim Exodus traditions may preserve transformed memories of Egyptian rule, labour, departure, migration, or small-group experience, but no single historical-memory model is securely …
  Disputed interpretationConfidence in this assessment: ◈ lowConfidence in the stated assessment
  informs · proposes interpretation · Egyptian setting and route

  Supports historical memory.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · proposes interpretation · geography and route chapters

  Provides historical-setting alternatives.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  supports · proposes interpretation · Egyptian-setting arguments

  Supports possible historical memories.