Publié dans VAcademn., 187.3, p

2. Dcr grosse Papi/rtis Harris. Ein aichtifjcr Beitrar/ ^iir dgijptischcn Geschichie, ein 3000 Jahr altes Zeugniss fur die tnosaische Belif/ionsstiftiing enflinltctid. Vortrag gehalten ini pliilosopliisch-historischen Verein zu Heidelberg von Dr. August Eisenlohr, Docent der àgyptischen Sprache an der Universitàt Heidelberg. Leipzig : T. C. Hinrich'sche Buchhandlung, 1872.

94 THE GREAT PAPYRUS HARRIS

Osarsiph, a priest of Heliopolis, whom they appointée! for tlieir leader and took an oath to obey in ail things. He tlien proceeds to relate bow Aloses^ after giving them laws altogetber opposed to tbe institutions and castoms of the land^ asked tbe Sbepberds to join in a war against Egypt; wbicb tbey did accordingly, and committed atrocities far beyond tbose attribilted to tbe first Hyksos invaders. Amenopbis witbdrew into Etbiopia witb bis son Setbos, also called Rbamesses, returned witb a great army, and finally ejected tbe Lepers from Egypt into tbe borders of Syria, Avbere tbey settled by tbemselves. Before Dr. Eisenlobr's publication it was a question witb a few critics wbetber Manetbo's taie was a mère réminiscence of Scripture or contained facts derived independently from tbe sacredannalsof tbe temples. We need now but read side by side Manetbo's fragment and tbe Harris manuscript to become convinced tbat Manetbo borrowed bis version of Exodus from purely Egyptian sources. What remains to be done is to examine tbecircumstances of bis narrative and to compare tbem witb tbe data of tbe original monuments, tbus discriminating wbat is bistoricalin it from wbat is legendary.

And first, about tbe names. 1. Tbe Israélites are said to be Lepers. One of tbe epitbets wbicb tbe Egyptians were so fond of tbrowing attbeir enemies was Aatu, Pestiferous, Lepers Cursed ones\ It is probable tbat Manetbo, seeing tbe Israélites so termed in old documents, mistook tbe epitbet for an indication of areal malady, and transformed tbe Aatu of tbe monuments into tbe Lepers of bis bistory. 2. Moses is called Osarsiph, an Heliopolitan priest. Osiris' name forms tbe first élément of 'Oaapdîcp or 'Odapajo ; as for tbe termination -jicp, -jjcp or -(jcjcp, it is to be found in MevTéaoo^pt; or Meôéao'j'f'.ç and Zexffojœw . MevTédootpt;,, borrowed from tbe vitli Manetbonian dynasty, answers to tbe bieroglypbical