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Technically, the exodus was both a deliverance and an expulsion according to scripture, but I agree with what you said otherwise. Could you mention a non-Jewish writer who made this assertion? I would be interested in looking into this subject further. thank you
- Tacitus (Histories, Book V)
- Justinus (Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, Book XXXVI)
- Manetho, Cheremon, Lysimachus (Josephus' Against Apion)
And Apion the son of Poseidonius, the most laborious of grammarians, in his book Against the Jews, and in the fourth book of his History, says that in the time of Inachus king of Argos, when Amosis reigned over Egypt, the Jews revolted under the leadership of Moses. And Herodotus also makes mention of this revolt, and of Amosis, in his second book, and in a certain way also of the Jews themselves, reckoning them among the circumcised, and calling them the Assyrians of Palestine, perhaps through Abraham. And Ptolemy the Mendesian, who narrates the history of the Egyptians from the earliest times, gives the same account of all these things; so that among them in general there is no difference worth notice in the chronology.