Egypts Record Of Time To The Exodus Of Israel Critically Investigated PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...for it obviously excludes the Persian, as we have seen--concurrently with which the native dynasty might thus be understood as prolonged in its unrelinquished rights, though not in power; so that the 135 years of the Persian dynasty in Egypt might doubtfully appear to be included in those of the preceding native dynasty. But again, there are the four Ethiopian kings, who, in the above Manethonian table, are allowed together thirty'six years; and if these were deducted on the same principle, the Canicular Cycle would not be complete at Alexander's date. Manetho might veil this circumstance to suit the purpose of flattering the Greek dynasty; but the sum of the years from the commencement of the cycle would thus strictly be reduced to not more than 1425. The statement of Diodorus here comes to our aid, with its more detailed information, derived probably from Manetho. Fifty'two descendants of Menes, he tells us, reigned more than 1400 years. Menes himself, however, as Eusebius states, reigned sixty years; and the dynastic lists ascribed to Africanus would prolong his reign to the sixty'second. Menes, therefore, and those fifty'two descendants, on this reckoning, reigned together 1461 years, equal to a Canicular Cycle. It is almost as if this duration of the reign of Menes might have been assigned by ancient chronologists just to round off the cycle. But plainly the reign of Menes came within the period preceding the cycle, either as included in the 443 years of the fifteen generations which were counted for the completion of a supposed preceding cycle; or else before even these. The succession of those fifty'two descendants, measured from the beginning of the cycle, being only somewhat more than 1400 years, ...