Biblical Archaeology Review

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Eliezer D. Oren, “Migdol: A New Fortress on the Edge of the Eastern Nile Delta,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 256 (1984), pp. 7–44.

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Some Bible translations render Shihor as “the Nile” (e.g., NRSV, ESV, NET), and Jeremiah’s parallel between Shihor and the Euphrates later in the verse might incline one to think a river is intended. However, in Papyrus Anastasi III (dated to c. 1200 BC), Shihor is referenced together with another border lake, Pa-Tjufy. The Egyptian word Tjufy is a cognate with Hebrew suf (“reeds” or “rushes”) and has been associated with Yam Suf (“Sea of Reeds”) of the Exodus tradition.

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Mohamed Abd el-Maksoud, “Tjarou: Porte de l’Oriente,” in D. Valbelle and C. Bonnet, eds., Le Sinaï durant l’antiquité et le Moyen Âge: 4000 ans d’histoire pour un de´sert; Actes du colloque “Sinaï” qui s’est tenu a` l’UNESCO du 19 au 21 septembre 1997 (Paris: Errance, 1998), pp. 61–65.

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The ideas presented here are treated in greater detail in James K. Hoffmeier, “The Hebrew Exodus from and Jeremiah’s Eisodus into Egypt in the Light of Recent Archaeological and Geological Developments,” Tyndale Bulletin 72 (2021), pp. 73–95.

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