Apiru War (1 gen 1347 anni a. C. – 31 dic 1347 anni a. C.)

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MOSES AND THE EXODUS: HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE by Gerard Gertoux

Paralleling synchronisms implies dating the war of ‘Apiru just after the “1 year war” in Syria led by Šuppiluliuma I (1347 BCE), 4 years after his first attack (1352 BCE) against Mukiš, Nuḫašše and Niya, vassal kingdoms of Mitanni (RS 17.340). The aggression of Šuppiluliuma I in Syria caused a chain reaction which destabilized all the region, from the north with the big kingdoms of Mitanni (ally of Egypt) and Amurru (unreliable vassal of Egypt), to the south with the numerous small kingdoms of Canaan (vassals of Egypt) and Palestine (independent area). The period of destabilization was intense but short (1447- 1445). (One must know that comparing historical data to archaeological finds has shown that territory was not constitutive of political power during the Bronze Age and that the spatial configuration of ancient Near Eastern polities was more related to a sovereign state rather than a territorial state with boundaries, which is a modern notion536).

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