The “Hyksos” as Amalekites
by Damien F. Mackey Dr. I. Velikovsky’s identification of the Hyksos conquerors of Egypt with the biblical Amalekites has been widely accepted by revisionists - even those who have since rejected his Ages in Chaos. David Rohl, whose own biblico-historical revision is some centuries apart from Velikovsky’s, had nonetheless accepted t he latter’s identification of the Hyksos conquerors of Egypt with the Amalekites of the Book of Exodus ( Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest , 1997) . Debbie Hurn, in 2003, wrote a solid article in support of this Velikovskian thesis. I thoroughly recommend that one reads her insightful article written for Testimony Magazine. It is found at: http://www.testimony-magazine.org/back/dec2003/hurn.pdf The Amalekites 2.Were they the Hyksos? * Dr. John Osgood, too, has mounted a strong case for the Amalekites to have been the Hyksos, an archaeologically-bas...