(August 7, 2011 at 4:57 pm)Hannah Wrote: Been wrong all the time about what??? Seriously, if you can tell me I've been wrong all the time after reading that poem then.....
You're wrong. There is NOTHING about an exodus there. In fact, as was pointed out before the "poem" ( and many scholars consider it to be nothing more than that ) talks about an "invasion" of barbarians rather than an "exodus" of them.
The papyrus we have is a New Kingdom copy of a much older work. The original story is dated to somewhere between the end of the 6th Dynasty ( the Old Kingdom) and the Second Intermediate Period ( prior to the New Kingdom.) This latter would put it in range of the Hyksos who were foreigners and could account for its popularity in the New Kingdom.
But it still doesn't help you with your fucking bible because the Hyksos were rulers... not slaves.
I have just posted a recent study in the Science section ( if you aren't afraid to go there) in which a long term drought has been detected as bringing about the end of the Old Kingdom in the midst of civil collapse.