Civil Defiance and Dictatorship: Comparing Protest Actions in Ramesside Egypt (an Academic Paper)

This is an academic paper that I gave at the May 27, 2021 Vancouver School of Theology conference. The paper compares two protests of Late Bronze Age Egypt: the Strikes at Deir el-Medina and the exodus narrative. The goal of the paper is to discover ways where a protest can succeed while living under the shadow of a repressive dictatorship.
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