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Title: Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt:
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Kellogg, Alfred H. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: N.Y., and Lond.
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e would certainly suggestsome reason for such haste, — a reason that might well enough have been hisown advancing years. The monuments yield only his twenty-fifth year; andit is certainly sufficient, therefore, to put his regnal period at thirty years.This would allow some eighteen years of an associated reign with his son, andthat much of an associated reign for Eameses II. would seem to be requiredby the story of Eameses wars. As an instance of the mistakes sometimesmade by the most exact of men, allusion may be made to the fact that Maspero( History, p. 218) should say that Eameses II. made war in Syria from thetime he was ten years old; whereas, putting together all the data, he couldnot well have been less than thirty (he was probably at least thirty-three) atthe time of his Syrian war; for as the story of that war of his fifth yearshows, he was old enough to have sons in command of army corps. No won-der that Brugsch (History, vol. ii. p. 67) found it difficult to refrain from
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FROM BRITISH MUSEUM. THOTHMES III. Joseph in Egypt. 55 The five Eegisters differ indeed as to three pointsonly: (1) As to the interval between the death ofAmenophis IV. and the accession of Seti I. Thisinterval is differently treated by different writers;the divergence in this case, however, amounting tobut twenty years. (2) As to the length of Minep-tahs sole reign; some making this eight, and otherstwenty years.1 (3) As to the Exodus era; threeof the Eegisters synchronizing this with the close ofMineptahs reign, and the other two synchronizing itwith the close of Dynasty XIX. But the total di-vergence of the five Registers amounts to less thanfifty years. Advancing now to a comparison of the five possibleEgyptian chronologies with the Hebrew time-period,some interesting conclusions will be reached at once. It will be observed, e. g., that the chronology ofthree of the Registers (I., III., and IY.) would obligeus to place Josephs fourteen-year period in the reignof Thothmes III., whi

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