Page

Third Period: The Miamun-Ramessides, or Second House

of Ramesses, and the First Tanites

525

Fourth Period: The Restoration, the Decline, and Rule of

Sixth Period: The Persian Dominion, Revolts and Decline 547

PART VIII.

SKETCH OF THE PLACE OF EGYPT IN UNIVERSAL HISTORY.

The Place of Khamism and the Hieroglyphics in the Post-

diluvian Development of Man before Menes

C.

The internal Import of the earliest Development of Language,

in itself, and as the Prototype of Religion

D.

560

566

The Picture of the Constitutional Origines of the Egyptians 571

I. Internal Epochs of the Time prior to Menes

II. Internal Epochs from Menes to the Loss of Independence:

3,300 years

578

578

SECTION II.

THE PLACE OF EGYPT IN UNIVERSAL HISTORY FROM MENES TO THE

DOWNFALL OF THE HOUSE OF SHESHONK.

A.

The general Turning-points and the Old Empire.

I. The general Turning-points

II. The Historical Points of the Old Empire: Egypt as con-

trasted with Abraham and the Hebrew Patriarchs

580

583

B.

The Historical Points in the New Empire to the Accession of

II. Homer's Sketch of Egypt, and the chronological Horizon of

the Heroic Legends of Ionia

C.

The Historical Position of the Twenty-second Dynasty.

Sheshonk and the Son of Solomon: Joel

Page

587

590

593

1. Egypt and the Policy of the Kingdom of Judah in the

first year of Ahaz

611

2. Egypt and Ethiopia, and their Position as to Judah

and the Kingdom of God -

612

3. Egypt and the Treaty of Hoshea, the last King of

Israel, with Sevekh, the Ethiopian King of Egypt 616

4. Egypt and Judah upon the Approach of the Assy-

rian Army under Sargina, 715 B. C.

618

619

5. The Panic in Egypt on account of Senak herib's

March against Sidon, 721 B. C.

V. Jeremiah :

Egypt and Judah in the last years of the Assyrian Su-

premacy

B.

-

619

The Prophetic Utterances about Egypt at the Time of the Chaldean

supremacy.

I. Jeremiah (604 to 585 B. C.)

620

-

1. Jeremiah against Egypt, when he came to Tach-

panches

623

2. Jeremiah in Egypt against Pharoah Hophra

624

II. Ezekiel :

a. During the Siege

624

b. After the Sack of Jerusalem and the Raising of the

Siege of Tyre

631

II. The Institutes of Religion: Animal-Worship and Metem-

psychosis

638

-

643

649

653

658

-

III. The Belief in Personal Moral Responsibility and in Im-

mortality, as expressed in the "Book of the Dead"

IV. The Metempsychosis in the Egyptian Novel, and Con-

clusion

VI. Geometry and Astronomy. - Chemistry and Anatomy

VII. Literature: Sacred Books. Philosophical Works.

Proverbs. Historical Writings. Historical Monu-

ments. Novels and Humoristic Productions:

1. The Religion and Philosophy of the "Book of the Dead"

II. Moral Philosophy

II. Historical Literature

1. The pretended Advice of Amenemha to his Son

Sesortesen

2. The supposed Negotiation between Sekennen-ra

(Theban King of 17th Dyn.) and the Shepherd

King Apepi, residing at Uar (Avaris)

3. An Episode in the Campaign of Ramesses II. on the

Orontes, near Katesh (Lake Kadis). Composition

of Pentaûr the scribe, in the year of Seti II.

4. The Rejoicing when Menepthah, the son of Ramesses

II., returned. Composition of Pentaûr, under

Menepthah and Seti IV. -

680

IV. Historical Inscriptions on Public Monuments:

1. State Monuments of historical Import

2. Sacerdotal Accounts of historical Import. The Mis-

sion of the God Khunsu (Khôns) from Thebes to

Assyria (Nineveh) under Ramesses XII., 20th Dyn. 681

CONCLUSION

LIST OF PLATES.

695

BUST OF SCHELL NG

Pl. I. Position of the North Pole of the Heavens at different

- facing p. 353

facing p. 354

II. Inclination of the Equator to the Ecliptic at different

BOOK V.

THE

ORIGINES AND AGES OF THE WORLD.

VOL. IV.

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