Semitic Tribe Entering Egypt, c. 1890 BCE

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Much of what we know about life in Egypt in the second millennium BCE provides a plausible context for the Egyptian sojourn.

A famous painting on a tomb wall at Beni Hasan in middle Egypt portrays Asiatic traders in a donkey caravan coming down to Egypt with their families and their wares in about 1890 BCE.

Nahum Sarna, "Israel in Egypt: The Egyptian Sojourn and the Exodus," in Shanks, Hershel, ed. Ancient Israel From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Washington DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1999.

See also:

• 10 Great Finds, Michael D. Coogan, BAR 21:03, May/Jun 1995.
• Pharaoh’s Workers: How the Israelites Lived in Egypt, Leonard and Barbara Lesko, BAR 25:01, Jan/Feb 1999.