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X 1-e only one move Wh of av^nent, ^ 
of Egyptology itself. a P singu lav event-the expulsion 
Amenopliis, as Manetho calls him f A very „ 
of the lepers. Manetho says : 
“ Amenophis, having a ,jF^ h de ^ who* wire an abomina- 
conld not do so until he ridded J the stone quarries, there to work 
tion. On this account he ordered 80,000 to mb he gave them up the 
sfsssfcf'iSn r • S* “ 8 ■ 
but he fled from them for fear of the gods. 
And Manetho adds : — 
This t a. *** .1 .a. w — “ ™' 8 , 
ments of whose arguments are preserv period it is a fair argument 
f 0[ pupping Ui*t A repr^p P , of -t,. Istoolte. Aggid, 
»d a. «.d~ “ tz jssrsr£ 
Manepthah began the persecution of the Isra It., to find 
it was in his reign that the city “es was bui t. W y ^ 
that that city was built by the Jews, and ’ whom tbey lived, 
the city falls in exactly with the Joseph l d his 
Then Tuthmosis IV. would be the Bat ure of things there 
brethren came into Egypt with err a ■ sp i e ndour of the achieve- 
would be new religious influences Reduced ^ ^ ^ 
ments of Joseph s wisdom. ~ , iTave we nothing to show 
that the God of the Hebrews was a great God ^e w ^ ^ 
that in that reign there was the te T P °We Team that under the successor of 
just the very thing that is wan . intro duced, called the worship 
Harnesses, Amenophis III., a new wo p authority for 
of the sun’s disc, or the worship o Aten ^ ^ ^ 
this ; and it falls m with *^*^^ m * s0 illustrious had died, there 
Pharaoh in whose reign Jos p se 0 f t h e true religion of 
would be a great accession o m uenc^ gociety aad to be ma de visible. 
Joseph, which must be expec ( f h H seems amo nnted to just 
The word “Aten must be read Adn, 
