Will the real Moses kindly step forward? (Part 1)

In that article, however, I hinted that there were actually more than one historically verifiable Exoduses that appear to have been telescoped and merged in the Old Testament (OT). Since these events were separated by something like 216 years, it effectively means that there were several “Moseses” that merged into a single OT character. In Part 1 of this mini-series we clear the mist around the first two candidates.

What was the first major exodus from which elements of Moses’ biblical character were drawn? The year is 1550 BC and a new Egyptian pharaoh Ahmoses is continuing a great and formidable task first begun by his elder brother pharaoh Kamoses a mere 2-3 years ago: that of expelling the elite of the hated Hyksos dynasty that had ruled Egypt with an iron fist since 2047 BC. But why did Kamoses rule only four years? Was he in fact Moses – the Egyptian “prince” that defected and led the exodus? The famous “Ahmoses stela”, in any case, eerily echoes Exodus 10:22’s “darkness over Egypt” during this time.