ABSTRACT
The historicity of Exodus are reminiscent of the scepticism which exists about a Dorian invasion of Greece. This scepticism has a long and respectable history, dating back into the 19th century, and is still widely current. The route by which the Dorians are said to have entered the Peloponnèse, crossing the Gulf of Corinth where it narrows at Naupactus, makes reasonable sense, and in this respect recalls the description of the route out of Egypt followed by the Children of Israel in Exodus. According to Greek tradition the Dorian invasion of the Peleponnese took place a couple of generations after the end of the Trojan War. The Linear B script was first identified by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete in 1900, but it has since been found elsewhere in Greece, notably at sites like Pylos on the Greek mainland.
