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The Hjksos are called the Men in Egyptian records, and came, 

 we are told, from Assyria. This points to their being of the same 

 race with the Hittitos, and with the Minyans of Matiene, whose 

 King Dusratta wrote nine long letters to Amenophis III. and 

 Amenophis IV. One of these is in a Mongol language, which 

 appears to be the same used by a Hittite prince writing to Egypt. 

 These three races all adored the same deity Set. 



The German work on the Tell Amarna tablets contains no 

 translations. The British Musenm volume contains only abstracts 

 of the supposed meanings. The theory which I put forward that 

 the Hebrews are mentioned, as conquering Ajalon Lachish Ascalon, 

 &c., in these tablets, has been independently proposed by Dr. 

 Zimmem in Grermany, of which I was not aware when I pi'oposed 

 it in 1891. 



As regards contemporaries of Joshua, there is I think no 

 doubt that Japhia is noticed. The Bible speaks of him as King of 

 Lachish, the tablets as King of Gezer. He may have been both. 

 The name of Jabin at Hazor is damaged, but seems fairly certain. 

 The name of Achnizedek at Jerusalem is a personal view, which is 

 not accepted by others, but for which I have given my reasons. 



The language ©f the tablets, no doubt, recalls Hebrew, just as 

 Arabic does ; biit the Quarterly Review is wrong in regarding the 

 grammatical forms as Hebrew. The grammar and vocabulaiy 

 alike are Araniean, and almost indistinguishable from Assyrian. 



It is also incori-ect to speak of the language of the Moabite stone 

 as almost identical with Hebrew. It is remarkable that this is not 

 the case. The plural, the voices of the verb, and other important 

 differences, class the Moabite language as Aramean rather than 

 Hebrew. I speak after long study of this important text. The 

 absence of the letter Teth is not due to mutilation of the tablet. 

 This letter is also absent from the Siloam tablet; and, from its 

 early forms, it appears not to have been an original letter, but one 

 probably added later to the Phoenician alphabet. The character 

 used on the Siloam text is unlike that of any other known text. 

 It is the peculiar alphabet of Israel ; and not strictly Phoenician, 

 though of the same class. It differs from that of the Moabite stone, 

 which is more like the Phoenician. 



Sir Charles VYarren surveyed the Siloam tunnel in I8G9. I was 

 not with him. When I was in command of the Survey party, in 

 1880, 1 was accompanied twice through the tunnel by Captain 

 Mantell, R.E. On one occasion Mr. Gr. Armstrong was with us. 



