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Historians have made various attempts to determine when the events described in Exodus took place. Suggested years seem to range from 1580 BC to 1215 BC.[17] Most scholars currently favor the first or second third of the 13th century BC.[17] Attempts to determine a year generally rest on three considerations
* Who the unnamed pharaoh was
* The dates for non-biblical accounts of large numbers of semitic people leaving Egypt
* The date that archaeology implies Jericho was destroyed
Generally, fixing the identification of the Pharaoh is considered the key, and two dynasties are usually suggested:
* Ramses II or Merneptah of the 19th Dynasty, around 1290 BC, favoured by the large majority of both religious and secular scholars
* Thutmose III or Amenhotep II of the 18th Dynasty, around 1444 BC, favoured by a large minority of mostly religious scholars, since it precedes the destruction of Jericho, although some doubt surrounds the archaeological evidence supporting the Exodus and Canaanite conquest dating. Egypt still dominated Canaan during that period in history [1], making such a date less plausible. The carbon-dating tests at Jericho are also disputed regarding dating.
* Akhenaton of the 18th Dynasty, around 1340 BC. Th"
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