[Gutenberg 32883] • Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments / A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible, From Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to [www.million-books.com](http://www.million-books.com) where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Exodus Out Of Egypt. Egypt during the sojourn of the Israelites.?The travels of an Egyptian officer through Palestine before the time of Joshua.?Recent excavations at Tel el- Maskhuta. ?Discovery of the treasure-chambers built by the Israelites. ?Date of the Exodus fixed.?Origin of the word Jehovah.?The rite of circumcision.?Origin of the name Moses.?Illustrations of Hebrew law and ritual from Phcenician and Assyrian monuments.?Tablet describing the duties of a priest of Bel.?The sacrificial tariff of Marseilles.? Phcenician texts found in Cyprus. THE expulsion of the Hyksos conquerors of Egypt, while it brought oppression and slavery to their Semitic kindred who were left behind, inaugurated an era of conquest and glory for the Egyptians themselves. The war against the Asiatics which had begun in Egypt was carried into Asia, and under Thothmes III and other great monarchs of the eighteenth dynasty the Egyptian armies traversed Palestine and Syria, and penetrated as far as the Euphrates. The tribes of Canaan paid tribute; the Amorites or hill-men were led into captivity; and the combined armies of Hittites and Phoenicians were defeated in the plain of Megiddo. On the temple-walls of Karnak at Thebes, Thothmes III (B.C. 1600) gives a list of the Canaanitish towns which had submitted to his arms. Among them we read the names of Zarthan and Bcroth, of Beth-Anoth and Gibeah, of Migdol and Ophrah, of Taanach and Jibleam, of Shunem and Chinneroth, of Hazor and Laish, of Merom and Kishon, of Abel and Sharon, of Joppa and Achzib, of Beyrut and Accho, ofEarly Travels In Palestine. 59 Heshbon and Megiddo, of Hamath and Damascus. One of the conquered places bears the curious name of Jacob-el, Jacob the God, while mention is made of the Negeb, or southern dis...