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170 THE EXODUS PAPYRI,
own wild way, evidence of design. The first is
connected with a death and festival, the second
with corn, and cattle, and politics, the third with
military expeditions. It is also certain that one
of these expeditions was in the reign of Seti II.,
Migdol and Tasacarta seem to point out its general
geographical direction. The Dag land and Zoar,
with difficulties by the waterflood, would by them-
selves have stood for little, but are now consider-
ably corroborative of a journey in that direction.
And who, then, are the personages concerned ?
Certainly, among others, a Jannes and a Moses!
This Moses also certainly spoke a foreign language;
and if the n in the word Midian is, as in most
similar cases, a mere formative, if Midia is the
central root—then was this Moses considered by
the Egyptians to have been a Midianite. The fact
that the Septuagint gives the other ordinary Egyp-
tian formative m, in the place of this equally com-
mon n, appears to shew conclusively that Midia is
really'the root. The Septuagint name is Midiam,
not Midian, even as we may say Aramites or Ara-
maeans.
All these particulars, then, the date, the direction,
the event itself, and some of the circumstances as
narrated from the Egyptian point of view, do un-
doubtedly afford a strong ground in favour of the
view I take, viz., that events connected with an
Exodus of Semitic tribes at this period are the
groundwork of the fifth Anastasi papyrus.
The next, or sixth Anastasi, will give further
grounds of confidence that I am correct.
own wild way, evidence of design. The first is
connected with a death and festival, the second
with corn, and cattle, and politics, the third with
military expeditions. It is also certain that one
of these expeditions was in the reign of Seti II.,
Migdol and Tasacarta seem to point out its general
geographical direction. The Dag land and Zoar,
with difficulties by the waterflood, would by them-
selves have stood for little, but are now consider-
ably corroborative of a journey in that direction.
And who, then, are the personages concerned ?
Certainly, among others, a Jannes and a Moses!
This Moses also certainly spoke a foreign language;
and if the n in the word Midian is, as in most
similar cases, a mere formative, if Midia is the
central root—then was this Moses considered by
the Egyptians to have been a Midianite. The fact
that the Septuagint gives the other ordinary Egyp-
tian formative m, in the place of this equally com-
mon n, appears to shew conclusively that Midia is
really'the root. The Septuagint name is Midiam,
not Midian, even as we may say Aramites or Ara-
maeans.
All these particulars, then, the date, the direction,
the event itself, and some of the circumstances as
narrated from the Egyptian point of view, do un-
doubtedly afford a strong ground in favour of the
view I take, viz., that events connected with an
Exodus of Semitic tribes at this period are the
groundwork of the fifth Anastasi papyrus.
The next, or sixth Anastasi, will give further
grounds of confidence that I am correct.