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Abraham's visit to egypt.
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In this statement the invasion of Egypt is erroneously
placed by the copyists or epitomizers of Manetho after
the building of Avaris.
In about the year b.c. 2081, the patriarch Abraham,
visited Egypt, before the second invasion of Palestine
by Chedorlaomer and his confederates. Perhaps Salatis
was the Pharaoh to whom he came. The King's being
called Pharaoh should not lead us to suppose that he
was not a Shepherd; for on the monuments of their
subjects the Shepherd-Kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty
receive the usual titles of Egyptian Kings, and the
title Ra, or Phra, that is, Pharaoh, commences the pre-
nomen of Salatis, as well as the prenomens of almost
all the other Kings of Manetho's Dynasties.
The second Shepherd-King, called by Africanus and
Eusebius " Bnon," and by Josephus " Beon," is called
on the monuments Ra-snufre Pi-ankhee. His preno-
men is usually written without the solar disk, thus
forming an exception to the general usage. Another
instance of a prenomen without the solar disk, or the
with "Memphis," and that commencing " They also," thus, "The
Seventeenth Dynasty, Shepherds. They were foreign Phcenician
Kings, brothers, who also took Memphis. The first of whom,
Saites, reigned nineteen years, from whom the Sai'te nome was
called. They also built a city in the Sethroite nome, whence
making an incursion, they subdued the Egyptians." (Eus. Gr.) It
is worthy of remark, that the Scholiast on the Timseus gives the
correct order, although he otherwise agrees with Eusebius in what
he says respecting the Shepherd-Kings. (V. Rosellini's Monument*
Storici. T. i. p, 45, note 1.)
Abraham's visit to egypt.
[Part il
In this statement the invasion of Egypt is erroneously
placed by the copyists or epitomizers of Manetho after
the building of Avaris.
In about the year b.c. 2081, the patriarch Abraham,
visited Egypt, before the second invasion of Palestine
by Chedorlaomer and his confederates. Perhaps Salatis
was the Pharaoh to whom he came. The King's being
called Pharaoh should not lead us to suppose that he
was not a Shepherd; for on the monuments of their
subjects the Shepherd-Kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty
receive the usual titles of Egyptian Kings, and the
title Ra, or Phra, that is, Pharaoh, commences the pre-
nomen of Salatis, as well as the prenomens of almost
all the other Kings of Manetho's Dynasties.
The second Shepherd-King, called by Africanus and
Eusebius " Bnon," and by Josephus " Beon," is called
on the monuments Ra-snufre Pi-ankhee. His preno-
men is usually written without the solar disk, thus
forming an exception to the general usage. Another
instance of a prenomen without the solar disk, or the
with "Memphis," and that commencing " They also," thus, "The
Seventeenth Dynasty, Shepherds. They were foreign Phcenician
Kings, brothers, who also took Memphis. The first of whom,
Saites, reigned nineteen years, from whom the Sai'te nome was
called. They also built a city in the Sethroite nome, whence
making an incursion, they subdued the Egyptians." (Eus. Gr.) It
is worthy of remark, that the Scholiast on the Timseus gives the
correct order, although he otherwise agrees with Eusebius in what
he says respecting the Shepherd-Kings. (V. Rosellini's Monument*
Storici. T. i. p, 45, note 1.)