long siege, returned to Egypt. The Egyptian pharaoh thus found himself in northern Amurru, well past Kadesh, in Tunip, where no Egyptian soldier had been seen since the time of Thutmose III almost 120 years earlier. This time he claimed to have fought the battle without even bothering to put on his corslet until two hours after the fighting began. The exact year of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias is subject to debate among scholars. Given that Herod was in Jerusalem at that time, Pilate decided to send Jesus to Herod to be tried. According to the New Testament, Paul spent eighteen months in Corinth, approximately seventeen years after his conversion. The latter date can only have fallen on a Friday if an exceptional leap month