Donald Bruce Redford (2 September 1934 – 18 October 2024)[1] was a Canadian Egyptologist, archaeologist, and Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University; he retired in 2024.
He learned the Egyptian language under the professors, Richard Anthony Parker, Hans Jakob Polotsky and Ricardo Caminos.
[5] In the book he argues that the experiences of the Hyksos in Egypt became a central foundation of myths in Canaanite culture, leading to the story of Moses.
He further argues that almost all the toponymic details in the Exodus story reflect conditions in Egypt not earlier than the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, the Saite period, namely the 7th century BC.
It has excavated at Mendes (in the Nile Delta), Karnak, Tel Kedwa (in North Sinai) and in the Theban necropolis (mainly investigating the tomb of Parennefer).