who were the hyksos people
Jewish History Blog The Middle Kingdom of Egypt. Ancient Egyptian art depicting the defeat of the Hyksos. In about the year 1700 BCE, a watershed event occurred in Egyptian history: the invasion of the Hyksos people. Josephus Flavius, Jewish historian of the 1st century CE and author of The Antiquities of the Jews, identified the Hyksos with the Hebrews. Most historians today disagree, but there are some striking similarities. First, the Hyksos people were from an alien culture and did not follow the Egyptian religion. The Hyksos Pharaohs never claimed to be gods, nor did they build for themselves any of the tremendous monuments that later Pharaohs would. They also moved the capital of Egypt northward.