. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . province, Palestine wasknown in Egypt, and that there was a good deal of intercourse betweenthe two countries. Rameses IPs successor, Merenptah (1234-1214 or 1225-1215), wasin all probability the Pharaoh of the Exodus. An inscription of his,found by Professor Petrie in 1896 in the kings funeral temple atThebes, contains the earliest mention of Israel1 known at present to 1 Ibid. pp. 63 8. 2 Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellachaft, No. 35, p. 20 f. 3 Hastingss Diet, of the Bible, i. 166b ; or, more fully, Schumacher in the Deutsche
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . province, Palestine wasknown in Egypt, and that there was a good deal of intercourse betweenthe two countries. Rameses IPs successor, Merenptah (1234-1214 or 1225-1215), wasin all probability the Pharaoh of the Exodus. An inscription of his,found by Professor Petrie in 1896 in the kings funeral temple atThebes, contains the earliest mention of Israel1 known at present to 1 Ibid. pp. 63 8. 2 Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellachaft, No. 35, p. 20 f. 3 Hastingss Diet, of the Bible, i. 166b ; or, more fully, Schumacher in the Deutschen PaliUtina-1 ereins, 1892, pp. 142 ff., and Krman, ibid. 1893, pp. 205 ff 4 Sec Krman, Life in Ancient Egypt, pp. 380ff. ; Sayce, Patriarchal Palestine,p. 204 f., 209-24; W. .Max Miiller, Aden unit Europa nack altiigyptischenDenkmiilern, pp. 57, 184-7, 394. ■ ^^^^ ■ I Kf ^B ■ 5 Head oi Mummy of Rameses II Discovered by Prof. Maspero in 18S1 at Deir el-Bahari, oppositeto Karnak (Thebes , and now in the Gizeh Museum. From a Granite Bust oi Merenptah From Merenptahs Temple at Thebes. From Petries History / Egypt, iii 11905 , 108. p. ;,) | MERENPTAHS INSCRIPTION 39 occur on anv monument. It had for long been known that Merenptahin his fifth year had gained at Prosopis a great victory over the Libyans, who had invaded the Delta with a large body of allies: the narrativeof his success, inscribed at Karnak, may be read at length in BrugscbsHistory of Egypt (the one-vol. ed.), pp. -311 if., or, somewhat abridged,in Masperos Struggle of the Nations, pp. 431 The inscriptionfound by Professor Petrie consists, for the greater part, of a grandilo-quent description of the same occurrence: no more, says the author,is the land disturbed with preparations for repelling the invader,Egypt is again at peace :— Nolonger i< there the lament of sighing man. The villages arc- againsettled. He who lias tilled his crop will eat it. Eta has turned himself(favourably) t<i
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