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George St. Clair. Buried Cities and Bible Countries
Buried Cities and Bible Countries
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. EGYPT AND THE BIBLE
I. The Rosetta Stone: Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs
2. Kings and Dynasties of Egypt
3. The Finding of the Mummies
4. Egyptians in Palestine before the Exodus
The Hittites
5. Semites in Egypt before the Oppression
6. Israel in Egypt
7. Buried Cities of the East—Preliminary
8. Biblical Sites in Egypt
9. The Route of the Exodus
10. The Wilderness Wanderings
CHAPTER II. PALESTINE
1. Palestine generally
2. Physical Features of Palestine
3. The Dead Sea, Salt Sea, or Sea of Lot
4. The Cities of the Plain
5. “Lot’s Wife.”
6. The Natural History of Palestine, as dependent on its Physical Geography
7. The Topographical Survey of Western Palestine
8. Israel’s Wars and Worship, considered in connection with the Physical Features of the Country
The Wars
9. Sacred Sites of the Hebrews
10. The Method of the Survey, and Incidents of the Work
11. The East of Jordan
CHAPTER III. JERUSALEM
1. The City as it is
2. The Sieges of Jerusalem, and the Fortunes of its Walls
3. Excavations at Jerusalem
4. Jerusalem as it was
5. The Walls and Gates of the City
6. Incidents of the History better realised
CHAPTER IV. GOSPEL HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF PALESTINE EXPLORATION
1. Christ in the Provinces
2. Christ in the Capital
CHAPTER V. MESOPOTAMIA AND THE BIBLE
1. Assyria
2. Babylonia
3. How the Writings were Read
THE VANDALISM OF THE ORIENTALS
Footnote
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George St. Clair
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Rameses II., the renowned soldier, son of Seti I., known to the Greeks as Sesostris. The oppression of the Israelites, probably begun by Seti I., was continued under Rameses II. In the sixth year of his reign, however, Moses was born. The mummy of Rameses II. was found deposited in a coffin of the twenty-first dynasty, like that of Rameses I. This gave rise to doubts as to which particular Rameses was enclosed, but on unwrapping the mummy an inscription was found, explaining that the original coffin had been accidentally broken, and leaving no doubt that this was Rameses II. Most striking, when compared with the mummy of Seti I., is the astonishing resemblance between father and son. The nose, mouth, chin, all the features are the same, but in the father they are more refined than in the son. Rameses II. was over six feet in height, and we see by the breadth of his chest and the squareness of his shoulders that he must have been a man of great bodily strength. Professor Maspero, in his official report, describes the body as that of a vigorous and robust old man, with white and well-preserved teeth, white hair and eyebrows, long and slender hands and feet, stained with henna, and ears pierced for the reception of ear-rings. Rameses II. reigned sixty-six years, and was nearly a hundred years old at the time of his death. He exhibited great zeal as a builder, and was a patron of science and art. It was he who built the Ramesseum at Thebes, and presented it with a library. He also built the Pylons and Hall of Columns of the Temple of Luxor, and a score of minor temples in Egypt and Nubia, and made the marvellous rock-cut temples at Abousimbel.
Rameses II. was succeeded by his thirteenth son, Meneptah II., who continued the oppression of the Israelites, and pursued them when they were escaping.
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