BM 10053
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Date: c. 1189-1153 BCE
The longest known Egyptian papyrus, composed shortly after the death of Ramses III (ca. 1189-1153 BCE) and presenting an extended account of his reign and his benefactions to the gods. Section 76:9-11 records the king's campaign against the Shasu, here identified specifically as “the people of Seir.” The text shows that by the twelfth century BCE, Egyptian scribes paired the term Shasu with Seir as a regional name, the same southern wilderness to which Israel's earliest poetry attaches the movement of Yahweh.
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