Fn.4; S-'-nrTYOF BIBLICAL ARCTLEOLOGY. [1890.sun on both hrirr.s.- Alsothe name Pharaoh,per-aa or per-ao,
"the greathe use." or -the hizhPorte,"mayhavereferredto the
samesyn;'->:'.i5Tn. We flrd RamsesII represented at Tel-el-raashkuta
between Ra and Turn, perhatswithreferenceto '• the right eye "
andto " the left eye " of Ra. whose vicarthe Pharaoh washeldto
be. Accordingt5 an inscription discoveredat Succoth (Pitum),the
god of the setting sen addressed the following wordsto Ramses II :
** thou risestlike the god on the two horizons." Theinscriptionin
which Ramses II appropriates to himself the building of Pithom
and thusalso of Raemses, can only be referred to a rebuilding or
enlargementof these cities.
ThequestionwhetherMoseshas lived about 250 yearsbeforethe
time hithertoassignedto him, can only be finally settled by the
nowprovablesynchronisms between Hebrewand Egyptian chro
nology. Whatobjectionsm:ghtbe raised againstthis scheme?
The yearac 2360 for the Flood, and thus for the starting
pointof Biblical chronology,is not supported by any chronological
authority; yet only on this assumption the Exodusfrom Haran
andthe possible entryof Hebrews into Egypttook placeexactly
400 yearsbefore the calendrian date assignedto the ' year five '
of Ahmes, when the Hyksos, the bondmasters of the Hebrews,
wereexpelledfiomEgypt ThisEgyptiandate,ac.1593,depends
on the correctness of the Hebrew-Egyptian date for the capture
of Jerusalem in B.C. 928,and on the assumption that the regnal
years of the Pharaohs have been by Manetho transmitted with
absolute accuracy. Again, the correctness of the year 928 for
the fifth of Rehoboam and the twentieth of Shishak dependson
settingaside the Biblicalperiod of 480 years from the Exodus
under Moses to the foundation of the Temple, a period which
has been hitherto regarded as historical. Although it must be
admittedthatthe 450 yearsfromJoshuauntilSamuel,demanded
by Scripture and cited by Paul, renderimpossiblethe period of 480
years,it does not follow fromthisthatit has lasted 592 years,as
Josephusasserts. On this suppositionSamuel,the time of whose
judgeship is not stated, must have been a judge for thirty two
years, which is possible, but not certain. Only on the further
assumption, based on vague statements in the Septuagint, that
Rehoboam became king two years after the death of Solomon,
the year 928 is arrived at.\"^164