XVII THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOSEPH IN THE LIGHT OF EGYPTIAN LORE BY THE REV. H. G. TOMKINS ་ ་ ་ LATE VICAR OF BRANSCOMBE AUTHOR OF 'STUDIES ON THE TIMES OF ABRAHAM,' ETC. THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY PREFACE. IN this little book the reader will find himself out of the high-road of Biblical exposition, and (in conformity with the general title of this Series of Handbooks) in By-paths of Bible Knowledge. With questions of textual criticism I have not been concerned. The date and origin and authorship of those documents which may have been used in the writing, or subsequent redaction, of the Book of Genesis, are not the matters which lay in my way. But, quite apart from all such studies, it is surely a very interesting and instructive thing to lay the narrative as it stands side by side with the daily increasing information which comes to the student of Egyptian lore, and of other branches of Biblical archaeology. This I had done in concise form with regard to the Life of Joseph in a paper which may be found in the Transactions of the Victoria Institute for 18801; and I have since studied, as far as I am aware, all that has been written by Egyptologists bearing on the subject. The references in the following pages, and a few SA 5210 (RECAP) Vol. XV, pp. 83 et seqq. 748981 |
