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===Exodus===
The Bible reports 10 plagues of Egypt about 480 years before the supposed building of [[Solomon]]'s temple, and an escape during which the forces of the [[Pharaoh]] were drowned crossing the Red Sea. During this period some 600,000 Israelites (Exodus 12:37) were supposed to have left from a city called [[Rameses]] to wander for 40 years around the Sinai, before crossing into Israel. The period, however, was shown to be the height of the Egyptian Empire in Palestine, during which the total population of the country would have been less than 2.5 million. The escape of a quarter of Egypt's population is nowhere attested. Historians have dated Exodus either earlier, to the period of expulsion of the [[Hyksos]], or later, during the period of the [[19th Dynasty|Ramessides]]. Others have sought to find links between the [[Aten]]ist revolution of [[Akhenaton]] during the [[Amarna period]], and the supposed monotheism of [[Moses]]. Others attempted to relate various [[Ten plagues|plagues]] to historic events, notably the volcanic eruption in [[Thera]] in the 17th century BCE, although this is generally seen as [[pseudoscience]] (see [[Plagues of Egypt]]).
===Joshua===
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