The early history of the Hebrews

by A. H. Sayce

[100]. Mattan-Baal. The corresponding Hebrew name is Mattaniah.

[101]. A translation of the Sallier Papyrus is given by Maspero in the Records of the Past, new series, ii. pp. 37 sq. For the scarab of ‘Sutekh-Apopi’ see Maspero’s Struggle of the Nations (Eng. tr.), p. vii. The names of Beth-On or Beth-el in Canaan, and of On near Damascus (Amos i. 5), indicate a connection with the cult of the Sun-god at On in Egypt. On in the ‘Beka’’ of Damascus is probably the Heliopolis of Syria, to which the worship of Ra of Heliopolis of Egypt was brought in the reign of the Pharaoh Senemures (Macrobius, Saturnal. i. 23, 10).

[102]. Aegypten und die Bücher Mose’s, p. 299.

[103]. Maspero, The Struggle of the Nations, p. 271, note 5.

[104]. Cf. Brugsch, Aegyptologie, pp. 218 sq.

[105]. Ebers, Aegypten und die Bücher Mose’s, pp. 323-333.

[106]. Ebers, l.c., pp. 335, 336.

[107]. See Wiedemann, Religion der alten Aegypter, pp. 142-144. The khartummîm and khakâmîm (Authorised Version, ‘magicians’ and ‘wise men’) seem to correspond with the Egyptian kherhebu, ‘interpreters of the sacred books,’ and rekhu khetu, ‘wise men.’

[108]. See Tomkins, Life and Times of Joseph, p. 44; Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt (Eng. tr.), p. 439.

[109]. Mariette, Abydos, p. 421 (Ben-Mazan from Bashan becomes Ramses-em-per-Ra); Daninos-Pasha and Maspero in the Recueil de Travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à l’ Archéologie égyptienne et assyrienne, xii. p. 214; and Sayce in the Academy, 1891, p. 461.