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the Pharaoh of the Exodus. The conclusion is supported by 

 other evidence, and the Tel-el-Amarna monuments have made it 

 clear, that the new king, who knew not Joseph, was a Pharaoh of 

 the 19th dynasty, also that Canaan was not yet Israelite 

 in the time of Ramses II., whose death had been fixed by Dr. 

 Maiden upon astronomical grounds in 1283 B.C. Meneptah's 

 successor was Seti II. The excavations and researches of recent 

 years have at last begun to throw light on the route followed by 

 the Israelites on their departure out of Egypt. The geography of 

 the Delta in the age of Moses has been recovered, and the march 

 of the Israelites and their flight from Egypt are beginning to be 

 traced. Many points still remain doubtful, but much has been 

 cleared up, and the main outline of the ancient map of the Delta 

 can now be filled up. Though the monuments of Egypt and 

 Assyria throw no direct light upon the history of the Israelites at 

 Kadesh, or their conquest of Palestine, nevertheless from time to 

 time Scriptural narrative is corroborated by the monuments of 

 antiquity. It was because Palestine ceased to be an Egyptian 

 province that the Hebrews were enabled under the guidance of 

 the God of Abraham to make for themselves a new home in 

 the land of Canaan. 



