Philistines and Israelites : a new light on the world's history / by H. Martyn Kennard.

  • Kennard, H. Martyn.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Philistines and Israelites : a new light on the world's history / by H. Martyn Kennard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hyksos from Egypt. It has been ascer- tained, from the monuments and other authentic sources, that they were dislodged from Thebes during the XVIIth Egyptian dynasty, and Joseph (i.e., Aahmes) their conqueror founded the XVIIIth dynasty. It has also been discovered that Apepi was their king at the time of their retreat, and their forces were finally expelled from the Delta about 1500 b.c, We gather from Bunsen that during the first century a.d. a controversy took place between two celebrated scholars as to the origin of the Jews. Apion contended that the exodus under Moses was nothing else but a revolt of leprous outcasts, who, at a much later period, established themselves under an apostate priest, Osarsiph, of Helio- polis, in the ancient Hyksos city (of Tanis), which had been made over to them, and then called to their aid the old enemies of the Empire. Josephus, in answer, asserts that the Jews are the old lords of Egypt, who, after many centuries of glorious dominion, at length quitted it under an honourable convention and the guidance of Bitnsen's Egypt, vol. i. 193, C 2