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described as being employed in drawing stone for the Temple 
of the Sun, built by Ramessu the Great which he reads as 
belonging to the tribe of the Aperi-u, identifying them with 
the “Hebrews,” and confidently challenging disproof of this 
theory. But independently of the fact that the same tribe aie 
spoken of as possessing a Lower and an Upper Kingdom when 
the bondage of the Israelites was at its height m the reign of 
Thothmes III., and also as “captives” during the time of 
Ramessu IV., i.e. centuries after the exode, making it thereby 
impossible to identify them with the Jewish race, we are 
compelled to reject M. Ohabas’s theory on philological grounds 
** Hebrews ” in , i • h 
hieroglyphic characters read literally Apu-ri-aa-ct, by whic 
it will be at once seen that these letters do not approximate 
sufficiently near to the Hebrew word Eabenm to warrant oui 
identification of them as the same people. 
30. A variety of incidents combine to show that the grand- 
son of Thothmes III., and bearing the same name, was the 
individual Pharaoh who appears from Scripture to have been 
overthrown in the Red Sea, notwithstanding that Sir 
Gardner Wilkinson, who regards Thothmes III., as the 
Pharaoh of the exode, contends “there is no authority m .he 
writings of Moses for supposing that Pharaoh was drowned 
in the 8 Red Sea.” ( Ancient Egyptians, i. 54.) It ' s c ® r ^™ 
from the monuments that his reign was a short one, whiO; 
agrees with what Scripture records of this infatuated king. 
A tablet between the paws of the Great Sphmx at Ghizeh 
one of the few monuments remaining of this hharao . 
Another inscription discovered on a granite rock opposite the 
island of Phil!, on the Nile has this 
connected with it. After the usual Wting titles it . stops 
suddenly short with the disjunctive particle then , evident y 
pointing to defeat and disaster, which were ^haM-oteristics 
Sf this Pharaoh’s reign. And the inference thath™ he 
Pharaoh lost in the Red Sea appears to be confirmed by ' the 
fact that after all the careful researches of modew explore , 
no trace has been found of this king s tomb m tl ‘ 
place near Thebes, where the sovereigns of ,* e ! T T ' Kw 
lie • though that of his successor, Amenophis III. has pe.n 
discovered in a valley adjoining the cemetery of the other kings. 
(Wilkinson’s Thebes, pp. 122, 3.) immediatelv 
31. It is not quite clear that Amenophis III. immediately 
succeeded his reputed father Thothmes IV., though he ' “ ® , 
represented in the two tablets of Abydos, which if ,true would 
serve to confirm the opinion of the latter being 
Roman characters would be Habenm ; 
