93 
ON THE EVIDENCE OF THE EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS 
TO THE SOJOURN OF ISRAEL IN EGYPT. By the 
Bey. B. W. Savile, M.A., A.Y .1. 
1. mHB value of Egyptology, like that of Archaeology in 
B general, as seen in the Himyaritic, Cuneiform, and 
Semitic inscriptions which have come to light, is proved by 
the confirmation which it affords to the truth and integrity 
of Scripture, and especially to the earlier portions of it, 
relating to the history of the Israelites in Egypt. Bishop 
Colenso has gone so far in his criticism on the Pentateuch as 
to declare that : — 
“ All the details of the story of the Exodus, as recorded in the Pentateuch, 
again and again assent to propositions as monstrous and absurd as the 
statement in arithmetic would be, that two and two make five. There is 
not the slightest reason to suppose that the first writer of the story in the 
Pentateuch ever professed to be recording infallible truth, or even actual 
historical truth. He wrote certainly a narrative. But what indications are 
there that he published it at large, even to the people of his own time, as a 
record of matter-of-fact, veracious history 1 ” (The Pentateuch Critically 
Examined , etc. Part II., pp. 370, 5.) 
2. Hence Bishop Colenso denies the assertion of his 
brother critic, Dr. Ewald, who affirms, in his Geschichte des 
Volkcs Israel , that iC the historical existence of Moses is 
indubitably proved,” and refuses to acquiesce in the sober 
conclusion of the late Dean Milman, that “ all attempts to 
assign a later period for the authorship (of the Pentateuch) 
or even for the compilation, though made by scholars of the 
highest ability, are so irreconcilable with facts , so self- 
destructive, and so mutually destructive, that I acquiesce 
without hesitation in their general antiquity.” 
3. Believing that the history of Israel has received valuable 
aid in confirmation of its veracity from the recent interpretation 
of the Egyptian monuments, I propose to turn to such an 
unexceptionable source of authority in order to show the 
harmony between the two. It is not necessary to discuss at; 
any length the mode by which the hieroglyphic inscriptions 
