44 THE PHARAOH OP THE EXODUS. 



reign Israel went out of Egypt, either Setbos, Kameses or Amenopliis, 

 it being distinctly stated by tbem that Sethos and Rameses are names 

 of the same person, as the monuments also testify, and that Amenophis 

 is father or son of a Rameses. Usher ®^ favours the idea that a son of 

 Rameses the Great or Sesostris was the drowned monarch; and the 

 majority of later writers, whose opinions are of value, iacluding the 

 Duke of Northumberland,®^ Lepsius,®' Osburn^® and Lenormant,^^ give 

 their voice for Seti Menephthah or Merenphtah, who is Chaeremon's 

 Amenophis or Amenophath, the son of the great Rameses. 



On the side of a Thothmosis we find Manetho^" in another place, 

 where he is plainly inconsistent with himself if Thothmosis and 

 Rameses are not the same, Julius Africanus^^ and G-eorge Syncellus,^^ 

 and, among the moderns. Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, almost alone. 

 The view of Sir J. G. Wilkinson, it is but right to state, is the only 

 one that agrees with the Usserian or any other rational chronology of 

 of the Old Testament Scriptures. He says : " The rising of Sothis, 

 in the reign of Tothmes III, now calculated by the learned M. Biot to 

 correspond to between 1464 and 1424 B.C., shows that my placing his 

 reign from 1495 to 1456 B.C. only differed from his real date by about 

 thirty years.'^^^ Most writers place the first of the Rameses about 

 1320 B.C., which will not at all tally with the Scripture account of the 

 period which follows. 



The Amenophis of Chaeremon should not be set in opposition to 

 Thothmosis, seeing that in the 18th dynasty, as given by Africanus, 

 Eusebius, and on the tablet of Abydos, we have Amemophis, Horus, 

 Thothmosis, Acencheres and Rameses, all together, and among them 

 Thothmosis and Amenophis in intimate connection.^* 



I am quite prepared to say, with Sir J. G- Wilkinson, that the 

 arguments in favour of placing the Exodus after Eameses II. are 

 exceedingly strong. It is, however, an undesigned coincidence of 

 Eusebius with the statements of Manetho and Africanus that furnishes 

 the strongest ground for making a Thothmosis the Pharaoh of the 

 Exodus. In the list which he gives of the 18th dynasty, he passes by 

 Thothmoses and Rameses, and appends to the name of an Acencheres, 



85 Amiales, Vet. Test. p. 17. oo Joseplius Cont. Ap. i, 14, 26. 



8S Rawlinson, Herod. Appendix, bk. ii. c. 8. oi Ap. Euseb. Prep. Evan, x, 10. 



8? Lepsius' Letters, 424. 92 Synoellus, 63, B, &c. 



83 Monumental History of Egypt, p. 595. ^3 Ancient Egypt, abridged, ii, 255. 



89 Ancient History of the East, vol. 1, p. 261. °i Kenricli's Ancient Egypt, ii, 167, &c. 



