See also:

• RAMESES, or RAMESSES (Gen. xlvii. r1; Exod. xii. 37; Num. xxxiii. 3)

RAMESES, or RAMESSES (Gen. xlvii. r1; Exod. xii. 37; Num. xxxiii. 3)  , or, with a slight See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change in the vowel points, RAAMSES (Exod. i . 11), the name of a See also:

• DISTRICT

district and See also:

• TOWN

town in See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, is notable as affording the mainstay of the current theory that See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• RAMESES, or RAMESSES (Gen. xlvii. r1; Exod. xii. 37; Num. xxxiii. 3)

Rameses II. was the See also:

• PHARAOH (Par'oh)

pharaoh of the oppression and his successor Minephthas the pharaoh of the See also:

• EXODUS, BOOK OF
• EXODUS, THE

exodus . The actual facts, however, hardly justify so large an inference . The first three passages cited above are all by the priestly (See also:

• POST

post-See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile) author and go together . See also:

• JACOB
• JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

Jacob is settled by his son See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph in the See also:

• LAND

land of Rameses and from the same Rameses the exodus naturally takes See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . The older narrative speaks not of the land of Rameses but of the land of See also:

• GOSHEN

Goshen; it seems probable, therefore, that the later author interprets an obsolete See also:

• TERM

term by one current in his own See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, just as the See also:

• SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)

Septuagint in Gen. xlvi . 28 names instead of Goshen Heroopolis and the land of Rameses . Heroopolis See also:

• LAY

lay on the See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

canal connecting the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile and the Red See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea, and not far from the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the latter, so that the land of Rameses must be sought in See also:

• WADI

Wadi Tumilat near the See also:

• LINE

line of the See also:

• MODERN

modern fresh-See also:

• WATER

water canal . In Exod. again, the See also:

• STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store-cities or arsenals which the See also:

• HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE

Hebrews built for Pharaoh are specified as See also:

• PITHOM

Pithom and Raamses, to which the Septuagint adds See also:

• HELIOPOLIS

Heliopolis . Pithom also takes us to the Wadi Tumilat . But did the Israelites maintain a continuous recollection of the names of the cities on which they were forced to build, or were these names rather added by a writer who knew what fortified places were in his own See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to be seen in Wadi Tumilat ? The latter is far the more likely See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, when we consider that the old See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the Hebrews in Egypt is throughout deficient in precise See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical data, as might be expected in a See also:

• HISTORY

history not committed to See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing till the Israelites had resided for centuries in another and distant land .

The post-exile or priestly author indeed gives a detailed route for the exodus (which is lacking in the older story), but he, we know, was a student of See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography and might supplement tradition by what he could gather from traders as to the See also:

• CARAVAN (more correctly Karwan)

caravan routes.l And at all events to argue that, because the Hebrews worked at a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city named after Rameses, they did so in the reign of the founder, is false reasoning, for the See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew expression might equally be used of See also:

• REPAIRS (from Lat. reparare, to make ready again)

repairs or new See also:

• WORKS

works of any See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind . It appears, however, from remains and See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions that Rameses II. did build in Wadi Tumilat, especially at Tell Maskhiita, which See also:

• LEPSIUS, KARL RICHARD (1810–1884)

Lepsius therefore identified with the Raamses of Exodus . This See also:

• IDENTIFICATION (Lat. idem, the same)

identification is commemorated in the name of the adjacent railway station . But Naville's excavations found that the ruins were those of Pithom and that Pithom was identical with the later Heroopolis . See also:

• PETRIE, GEORGE (179o-1866)
• PETRIE, WILLIAM MATTHEW FLINDERS (1853– )

Petrie found sculptures of the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of Rameses II. at Tel Rotab, in the Wadi Tt milat See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of Pithom, and concludes that this was Rameses . The Biblical city is probably one of those named Prameses, " See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of Ramesses," in the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian texts . See PFTHOM; and W . M . F . Petrie, See also:

• HYKSOS

Hyksos and Israelite Cities, p . 28 et sqq . (W .

R . S., F . LL .