‘Hyksos’ Peoples
by Damien F. Mackey Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky put forward the novel thesis in his Ages in Chaos I (1952) that the Hyksos people who invaded Egypt were - in a chronologically revised scenario - the biblical Amalekites with whom the Moses-led Israelites had had to contend. This identification of the Hyksos as the Amalekites has been a popular one amongst revisionists, despite their disagreements over other aspects of Velikovsky’s revision. Introduction Early in the peace I had tended to fall in line with Dr. Velikovsky’s identification of the Hyksos with the Amalekites. It seemed to be one area of his Ages in Chaos about which revisionists of varying persuasions had seemed to concur. However I, in the course of writing my thesis: A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background AMAIC_Final_Thesis_2009.pdf had begun to wonder i...