to make a case for the historicity of the exodus narrative, as he’s done throughout his academic career. Feinman seeks to find the human element in the story by comparing it with Egyptian texts and finds similarities between the Hyksos and the Levites. Like Hoffmeier and Feinman, Gary A. Rendsburg does not read the reference to 480 years in 1 Kgs 6:1 as a literal number. Unlike his colleagues, he opts for a twelfth-century exodus, during the reign of Ramesses III (1184–1156 BC), Egypt’s last truly