Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college (1922) (14765139655)

Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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was presumablylike some of the Mongolian empires of the MiddleAges. The Hyksos capital, Avaris, lay on the borderbetween Egypt and Asia, and from this point the Hyk-sos ruled Egypt for 200 years. Then came the reaction. Egypt, pressed to theground, rose from it, like the giant of Greek story, to anew and vigorous life. It became a warrior nation.It appropriated the horse, and its chariots and horsesbecame famous. It conquered Avaris, drove theHyksos out of Egypt, and then attacked them in theirAsiatic strongholds, of which Kadesh on the Orontesseems to have been the chief, gradually subduingPalestine and Syria to the Taurus and Euphrates,then crossing the Euphrates and attacking the Hkysosscousins, the Mitanni of Mesopotamia. Among thevarious elements of this Asiatic Hyksos empire, whichwe find mentioned in the Egyptian records of thesewars, are Jacob-her, or Jacob-el, the Jacob of the Bible, 1 It is with the Cassites that we first have certain evidence ofthe use of the horse in war.
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Photograph by Prof. Elihu Grant. Jacobs Pillar. Natural stones of memorial, of superhuman size, traditionally ascribed toJacob, constituting the sacred feature of the Temple at Bethel. The Ancestry of the Hebrews 25 and Joseph-el, the Joseph of the Bible, Amorite peoplesof central Palestine whose homeland and sanctuariesthe Hebrews later amalgamated with their own Israel.1Before the Hyksos conquest of Egypt, as we know fromthe Babylonian records, reflected also in the Bible, inthe story of Abraham and Amraphel (Gen. 14), Pales-tine lay in the sphere of Babylonian influence and ofBabylonian raids and conquests. After the over-throw of the Hyksos power and the establishment ofthe great Egyptian empire of the eighteenth dynasty,Egyptian culture and influence predominated through-out Palestine, as we learn from the excavations con-ducted at Lachish, Gezer, and Taanach;2 except onlythat the Babylonian script and language continued tobe the medium of international intercourse throughoutall