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an independent Hittite 
mascus. I would compare 
kingdom^ 
the rival of Syrian Ua- 
the name of Thai’ or Thai! with 
Thii and Taei, and that of luaa^ her father,* with xii', Tva, 
or Ava, a city mentioned in connexion with Hamath. The 
Syrian regions of the Hittites, and the land of Naharina, 
were familiar to Amenhotep III. And I would set these 
names beside that of a town in Syria, Thiai, or Thai, or Thia 
mentioned in the Karnak lists of 
Thothmes III. next in order to Shabtiina,* an important place 
near the lake of Kadesh on the Orontes, and not far south of 
Hamath, in the midst of the Hittite region. The Hittite 
ladies appear to have been fair in complexion and to have had 
delicately-formed features, as shown by a beautiful relief in 
porcelain in the British Museum . Is it not probable that these 
fair foreigners in Egypt were Hittites, and not Libyans ? 
From the time of the Hyksos, or even before, Egypt gives 
us many traces of Biblical names. 
For instance, Shua, the Canaanitc of Adullam,’^ whose 
daughter Judah had married, is the familiar name of tho 
Hyksos themselves, Shaua. 
Anub and Anan (Onan) are among the names of the 
Hyksos rulers. 
Sekhem was not onH the name of the renowned city below 
Gerizim, but also of a district of the Delta, whose capital was 
Pi-beset (Bubastis), and its Egyptian meaning was not only 
sanctuary but posscssion,^^ as in Jacobis words in his 
blessing of Joseph. J 
Compare, again, the mutilated name of the time of 
Meneptah '^Ba^al . . . son of Zapur^^§ with Balak, son of 
Zippor, of the same period, and remember that Zipporah, the 
wife of Moses, was a Midianite, not far removed from Moab. 
Names in Palestine and Si/ria. 
As regards the nations by whom the land of Canaan was 
inhabited, we have increasiug light from Egypt and Assyria, 
taken together with the evidence of existing names and living 
men. 
Take the Kheth. of Scripture, Kheta of Egyptian monu- 
ments, Khatti of Assyrian annals ; that splendid race whose 
ruin-heaps still bear such names as Tell Ketin in northern 
* 2 Kings, xvii. 24 ; xviii. 34 ; xix. 13 ; Isaiah, xxxvii. 13. t No* I-t- 
Gen., xlviii. 22. Pierret. Vocab. 531, 532. § Brugsch, Hist. ii. 125. 
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