I am arguing in favour of it being possible that the Exodus narrative could have been inspired by the Conquest of the Hyksos.
Hyksos refers to rulers of foreign lands is a term which, in modern Egyptology, designates the kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt. They reigned between 1650 and 1550 BC. In the Aegyptiaca, a history of Egypt written by the Greco-Egyptian priest and historian Manetho in the 3rd century BC, the term Hyksos is used ethnically to designate people of probable West Semitic, Levantine origin, which is exactly what the Israelites depicted in Exodus were supposed to be.
Warfare between the Hyksos and the pharaohs of the late Seventeenth Dynasty eventually culminated in the defeat of the Hyksos by Ahmose I who founded the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
Now, the main reason that I think the Exodus narrative may have been inspired by the Hyksos, is due to the fact that not only were the Hyksos expelled from ancient Egypt, which is exactly what the Israelites were, but the name "Moses" appears to be no more in use than during the Hyksos period. From Ahmose I, to Kamose, Ahmose son of Ebana, Thutmose, Ptahmose, names similar to that of Moses were mostly in use during the Hyksos period, or the period immediately following.
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