Kanga Wrote:
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> The Bible itself mentions Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
> Moses was supposed to have killed a slave-master.
>
> Exodus 2: 11-12 "Now it came to pass in those
> days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to
> his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he
> saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his
> brethren. So he looked this way and that way, and
> when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid
> him in the sand."

Authorship of this extract from Exodus is attributed to Source J, generally dated to the period of the Babylonian captivity (597–539 BCE).

Authorship of the papyrus fragments found at Wadi el-Jarf would date to the time of Khufu, ca. 2480 BC.

So the contemporaneous AE account would surely be more reliable than Source J, a writer engaged in composing a Jewish foundation myth nearly 2,000 years later.

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