Before continuing with the Bible survey, we would like to interject a few sentences to explain the historical perspective used in preparing it. All attempts to place Joseph, Moses, and the events in Exodus alongside a secular, historical timeline proved unsatisfactory -- frustratingly so. There are educated opinions too numerous and complicated to reconcile. Anyone who claims to have the definitive word on which dynasty Joseph served or which pharoah withstood Moses or drowned in the Red Sea does so under the weight of a truckload of assumptions and inferences.
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