What was the time frame of the Exodus?

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According to The Bible around 1441 BC.

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The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt occurred 1446BC.

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The Exodus took place in 1446BC (according to the dating by Bishop Ussher), and 1447BC (according to Barry Setterfield). Answer from WikipediaThe Biblical date: c. 1440 BCE

According to 1 Kings 6, the Exodus occurred in the 480th year before Solomon began to build the First Temple in the 4th year of his reign...... -- places the fourth year of Solomon's reign somewhere between 1016 and 966 BCE, and the Exodus between 1496 and 1446 BCE.

"Late" Exodus: c. 1200 BCE

Excavations by William F. Albright in the 1930s failed to find traces of the simultaneous destruction of Canaanite cities c.1400 BCE which could be expected from an Exodus c.1440 BCE and the arrival of the Israelites in Canaan forty years later as described in the Book of Joshua; this was confirmed by Kathleen Kenyon's careful excavations in the 1950s at Jericho,

"Early" Exodus: before 1500 BCE

The expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt c.1540 BCE has been advanced as a plausible origin for the Biblical Exodus

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Answer Since the story is not historical in modern terms, finding a modern answer for when the event happened is impossible.

Nevertheless, enough historical information can be weaned from the story of the Exodus, that one may see that the events described harken back to some early memories which have conjoined into a national epic over time.

The historical nuggets behind the exodus are:

The massive war and expulsion of the Semitic Hyksos from Egypt to Canaan by pharaoh Ahmoses, and the historical memories of the Habiru (Hebrew) quarymen in Ramesside Egypt, and the Egyptian control over the land of Canaan for 400 years.

The Israelites are mentioned in 1210 BC by pharaoh Merneptah, therefore The events of the Exodus can be traceable to a late bronze age era, between 1540 and 1210 BC. Answer According to the biblical genealogies, the Exodus from Egypt would have to have been around 1440 BCE. However, archaeologists say that the Palestinian hinterland that was to become the Hebrew homeland, was only sparsely populated until around 1220 BCE, when a gradual increase in the population began to occur. There is a discrepancy of about two centuries.

Answer According to the biblical genealogies, a timeline followed by most conservative Christians, the Exodus from Egypt took place around 1440 BCE. However, the Amarna Letters, preserved in Egypt from the middle of the thirteenth century BCE, show that Palestine was still under full Egyptian control more than a hundred years later, with petty Canaanite kings located in each city. Archaeologists say that the Israelites appear to have arrived in Palestine some time before 1205 BCE, but without any great military conquest as described in the Bible.

The explanation for this is that scholars say that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible.

Answer Nobody really knows, but Jewish tradition holds that it was around 1300 BCE.

It's not possible to know exactly when or if it happened, but some estimates place it at around 1400 BCE

Between 1300-1200 B.C.

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The book of Exodus covers the time from the entry into Egypt of the whole family of Jacob and his 12 sons, until about the first year of the exodus from Egypt of the whole nation, (about 3 million people), with Moses as their leader.

It says in this book that the period was 430 yrs. See Ex.12.40:

"Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years."

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The Exodus from Egypt is traditionally said to have been in 1440 BCE, based on biblical genealogies.

However, Archaeology makes this date untenable and some liberal Christians now suggest a date around 1250 BCE, just before the Israelites began to appear in the Canaanite hinterland. Some modern Jews suggest a date of around 1313 BCE, shortly after the Amarna letters that show Canaan firmly under Egyptian rule. In any case, scholars note that the land remained largely unpopulated until around 1250 BCE, when small numbers of settlers began to arrive and create small villages and towns in the Canaanite hinterland. There was no unified military conquest, as portrayed in the Bible.

Most scholars actually say that there was no Exodus, so there would be no year in which it took place. Israel Finkelstein says, "Today more than 90 percent of scholars agree that there was no Exodus from Egypt."

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http://christianity.answers.com/bible/the-pentateuch-explained
http://christianity.answers.com/bible/the-book-of-exodus
http://christianity.answers.com/theology/when-science-challenges-the-bible

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40 years wandering in the desert! they should have used MAP QUEST!

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The Exodus of the Hebrew people from Egypt to Canaan was 40 years.

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That depends entirely on how fast the person reads. Some people read more quickly than others.

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39

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40yrs