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an independent Hittite kingdom, the rival of Syrian Da- 

 mascus. I would compare the name of .Thai or Thaii with 

 Thii and Taei, and that of luaa, her father,* with toy, Iva, 

 or Ava, a city mentioned in connection with Hamath. The 

 Syrian regions of the Hittites, and the land of Naharina, 

 were familiar to Amenhotep III. And I would set these 

 names beside that of a town in Syria, Thia'i, or Thai, or Thia 



AT i sl*y^> llsH S &' men ti ne( l in the Karnak lists of 

 Thothmes III. next in order to Shabtuna,f an important place 

 near the lake of Kadesh on the Orontes, and not far south of 

 Hamath, in the midst of the Hittite region. The Hittite 

 ladies appear to have been fair in complexion and to have had 

 delicately- formed features, as shown by a beautiful relief in 

 porcelain in the British Museum. Is it not probable that these 

 fair foreigners in Egypt were Hittites, and not Libyans ? 



From the time of the Hyksos, or even before, Egypt gives 

 us many traces of Biblical names. 



For instance, Shua, the " Cauaanite of Adullam," whose 

 daughter Judah had married, is the familiar name of the 

 Hyksos themselves, Shaua. 



Anub and Anan (Onan) are among the names of the 

 Hyksos rulers. 



Sekhem was not only the name of the renowned city below 

 Gerizim, but also of a district of the .Delta, whose capital was 

 Pi-beset (Bubastis), and its Egyptian meaning was not only 

 ' ' sanctuary " but " possession," as in Jacob's words in his 

 blessing of Joseph. J 



Compare, again, the mutilated name of the time of 

 Meneptah "Ba'al . . . son of Zapur" with Balak, son of 

 Zippor, of the same period, and remember that Zipporah, the 

 wife of Moses, was a Midianite, not far removed from Moab. 



Names in Palestine and Syria. 



As regards the nations by whom the land of Canaan was 

 inhabited, we have increasing light from Egypt and Assyria, 

 taken together with the evidence of existing names and living 

 men. 



Take the Kheth of Scripture, Kheta of Egyptian monu- 

 ments, Khatti of Assyrian annals ; that splendid race whose 

 ruin-heaps still bear such names as Tell Ketin in northern 



* 2 Kings xvii. 24 ; xviii. 34 ; xix. 13 ; Isaiah, xxxvii. 13. f No. 74. 

 J Gen. xlviii. 22. Pierret. Vocab. 531, 532. Brugsch, Hist, ii., 125, 

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