THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. 



NEW SERIES. 



■ No. LXXXVI.— AUGUST, 1874. 



THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



[Contimwd from page !S07.] 



BY JOHN CAMPBELL, JI.A., 



Professor of Church History, dx., Presbijterian Colkgc, Montreal. 



III.— TRACES OF THE ASHCHURITES IN THE TRADITIONS, &c. 

 OF SO-CALLED SEMITIC AND SEMITO-HAMITIC NATIONS. 



The Aslichurites belonged first of all to Palestine. This was the 

 first great centre of population after the dispersion from Babel. 

 With Palestine history begins.^ In that land, embracing both sides 

 of the Jordan and the region extending beyond the borders of Arabia 

 Petraea, I hold that the principal families of the human race were 

 to be found, either a short time before or during the period of 

 Abraham's sojourn there. From Palestine many families went down 

 into Egypt, which was, as I have already stated in a previous paper, 

 the school of the world, and the place in which we are to look for the 

 earliest authentic history of the race. From Egypt many if not all 

 of the historical nations migrated through Arabia or Palestine, on 

 the one hand, to Phoenicia, Syria, Asia Minor, Gi-eece, &c., to 

 Assyria and Babylonia, Armenia, Persia, India and China; or. on the 

 other hand, through Northern Africa to Oarthage, Spain, Italy and 

 the islands belonging to it, with other parts of Northern Europe. . 



1 I Ijelieve the principal reason why Palestine has been disregarded by students of Ancient 

 History and Ethnology, and the track of migrating peoples moved far north of it, is, tliat the 

 Bible, dealing with the early events which transpired in that land, tal^es no notice of, or at 

 least refers obscurely to, the important facts of Gentile history, giving almost exclusive atten- 

 tion to the story of the Church. 



