EVIDENCES OF TUK MIGRATION OF ABRAM. 107 



If, then, the campaign of Kudur Lagamar and the other 

 Mesopotamian kings took place between B.C. 2280 and most 

 probably about B.C. 2235, the date makes a close synchronism 

 with the period when the Asiatic Hyksos kings invaded 

 Egypt. The account given by Josephus, quoting Manetho, 

 of this event, is as follows : — 



" There was a certain king called Timaius. In his reign, I 

 know not for what reason, God was unpropitious, and people 

 of low origin from the country of the East suddenly attacked 

 the land, of which they easily and without struggle gained 

 possession. They overthrew those who ruled there, burnt 

 down the cities, and laid waste the temples of the gods. 

 They ill-treated all the inhabitants, for they killed some and 

 carried into captivity others, with their wives and children. 



" And they made one from the midst of them king, whose 

 name was Salatis.* He fixed his seat in Memphis, collected 

 the taxes from the upper and lower country, and placed 

 garrisons in the most important places. But he particularly 

 fortified the eastern boundary, /or heforesaiv that the Assyrians, 

 then the most powerfvl feoiole, vwulcl undertake to malce an 

 attach on his country." 



Brugsch, whose chronology seems the most systematised of 

 all, would make the commencement of the Hyksos rule B.C. 

 2233, and if we may suggest that Manetho has here written 

 Assyrians for Chaldeans, the synchronism is almost exact with 

 the campaign of Kudur Lagamar. Abram had been favourably 

 received in Egypt, and was dwelling" at Hebron or Kirjath 

 Arba, where was a Hittite colony, and these people we know 

 took a prominent part in the Hyksos invasion. 



''THE FAMILY OF ABRAM.'^ 



The genealogy of Abram given in the Scriptures (Gen, 

 X. 10, 31) is most valuable on account of the names there 

 given, and many of these are to be found in the inscriptions — 

 or at least have their equivalents in some Assyrian nouns : — 



* Evidently from root obc? "to rule/' saladhu, "to govern," in Assyrian, 

 saldhatm, "sultan or governour." Note the use of tliis word in Saklhanis 

 in the inscription just translated. Line 5; 



