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Title: The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Price, Ira Maurice, 1856-1939
Subjects: Bible Jews -- History, Ancient
Publisher: Chicago : Christian Culture Press
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ldiers, the great royalson of the body begotten, beloved of him (Set) Me-neptah—deceased. It should be said, however, thatall Egyptian scholars do not agree with Dr. Painesinterpretation. 97. So far from denying the Egyptian sojourn ofthe Hebrews, the biblical narrative preserves an Egyp-tian coloring, sets admirably on an Egyptian back-ground, and reflects Egyptian life and customs. Theexcavations at Pithom, the two occurrences of thename Israel on Egyptian monuments, suitablepolitical conditions, and the veritable mummies ofSeti i and Eameses II in the museum of Gizeh, testifystrongly to the definite sojourn of Israel in the land ofGoshen. 98. How long? From the migration of Jacobsfamily into the land of plenty, to their exodus in 1276B. C. How long were they in actual slavery? Thisquestion cannot be specifically answered. If theywere enslaved by the early kings of the XlXth dynastyand escaped in 1276 B. C, their actual slave-servicedid not cover more than one century, while their
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WHY SOJOURN IN EGYPT? 121 sojourn from Josephs day may have lasted 300 ormore years. 99. What was the purpose of that long Egyptiansojourn? What could Providence have had in storefor his chosen people that they were permitted tosuffer such hardships at the hands of cruel lords andtaskmasters? The more we penetrate the mists ofantiquity in the decipherment of its records, the morewe perceive the remarkable character of the oldestcivilizations located on the Nile and on the Euphra-tes and Tigris rivers. The patriarchs in Palestinewere living among peoples of low moral character, ofa low type of civilization, if civilization it might becalled. God had in store large things for theirdescendants. To occupy the position which he hadplanned for them, it was necessary that they becomeacquainted with the nations of their day. Their set-tlement and sojourn in Egypt, through the mediationof a Hyksos sovereign, was the introduction of Israelto the foremost or one of the two foremost nationsof tho

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