Egyptologist James Hoffmeier remarked that in response to the question “do you think the early Israelites lived in Egypt and that there was some sort of exodus?” posed in a survey sent to a group of randomly selected Egyptologists, of twenty-five, nineteen answered ‘yes.'[1]

Hoffmeier’s anecdote appears in the the proceedings in the 2013 conference “Exodus: Out of Egypt – Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Archaeology, Text, and Memory” held at the University of California San Diego. Featuring leading experts in Egyptology, archaeology, Biblical Studies, and other related disciplines, the conference provided a cutting-edge look at the evidence for a historical basis to the Exodus tradition in the Bible.

As well as the book, the videos[2] and the conference website are available for those who want to take a serious look at the seminal event in the history of Israel.

Footnotes

1. Hoffmeier, James K.; “Egyptologists and the Israelite Exodus from Egypt” in Thomas E. Levy; Thomas Schneider; William H.C. Propp (Eds) “Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective” (2015: Springer International), p 205
2. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbbCsk7MUIGeFrKlS-snrKWTT-uPs7VNO

Author: Kenneth Gilmore