V. SlïTI II

(S yrian Invasion acreeinsr with Exodus.»

> VI. XliCIIT-SETI.

Vil. Rhamses III

The reasons for tliis restitution are to be fouiid in a Lettre à M. Gustave cl'Eichthal sur les Circonstances de l'Histoire d'Egypte qui ont pu favoriser V Exode du peuple hébreu, read before the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles- Lettres of Paris, and shortly to be published in the Comptes rendus of the same'.

Thèse results ditïer slightly from those of Dr. l'iisenlohr. According to him,.!' Josephus' Amenophis is to besoughtin Menephthah Seti II, and young Sethos is no other than Seti-Necht."' But I am happy to see that we agrée in placing the Exodus not, '"as is usually supposëd, under the reign of Menephthah I, butin the reign of lus successor Menephthah Seti II." This is the only time at which the kingdom of Egypt was weak enough to allow a tribe of public slaves to escape^Yitll impunity into the wilderness ;whilc the necessity of Israël wandering for forty years is explained more than enough by the subséquent triumphs of RhamsesïII, and his conquest of Syria. AU about that conquest andjlie wars that preceded it will soon be told by Dr. Eisenlohr hiinself, from new documents, the principal of which is'certainly the great Harris Papyrus.