The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-11-26
bid Noses Cross the Red Sea /.

A convention of historians aud Ori-
entail scholars has recently been held
in London which attracted very wide
attention. The addresses of Sir Hen
~ Rawlinson and Max Muller were
bold and iconoclastic, and defiant OF
many cherished opinions. But the
papers read by Brugsch Bey, b distin-
guished scholar of Egypt, on the
/ question of the site at which the
Israelites crossed from Egypt into the
Promised Land, was of unusual in
terst. Monumental inscriptions had
been collected, geology studied, notes
compared, and maps prepared to
authenticate the history recited.
The following are the points arrived
at:
l have chosen for my theme (said
Brughsch Bey) the exodus of the He
brews from Ramasis to their arrival
at Elm. ALI savants who have pre-
viOusly occupied themselves with the
reconstruction of this route have ta-
ken as the basis of their researches
the geography of Egypt during the
time of the Dover Empire, eOmpar-
ing it with that of our days. So
many servants, so many different
opinions concerning this route but
all, with the exception of two, agree
that the Jews went through the Red
Sea. My own researches are founded
on the geographical indications of
Egyptian monuments, contemporary
with the time of the exodus. / was
able to reconstruct the Egypt of this
repOch, with its forty-twO provinces,
with its chief towns, and with q very
great number of curious details OF the
topography and also OF the divine
rights. From this have arrived at
the following conclusions, which I
consider unquestionable
l. That the town of Ramsar 'idiffers
in no way from the town of Z1an,"
which has spoken of in the Bible as
the place where Moses performed his
miracles before the Pharaoh of his
/ time. This is the same town which
the Greeks cziisd Fanes, and which
was the chief town of the uistric1
Tanitis.
2 That the town OF Pithom, like
wise mentioned in the Bible, was the
chief town of the adjoining districts
called. by the Greeks the district of
Sethroites. The Semitic name of
this same town, called in the psyra
of the British museum, was Suko, or
Sukoth, which corresponds exactly
with the Second station at which the
Hebrews camped after their exodus
| from Rameses.
The third station, called in the
Bible Ethan. bears the name of He
than in the Egyptian texts the name
means "the fortified" This place
was situated from the place eI-Kan-
tarck Ii. e. the bridge) of to-day on
the confines of the descert. After hav-
ing arrived at Ethan the Hebrews
turned North and arrived there at (4)
Migdol, which was the fourth station.
The name is completely Egyptian,
and means the fortress of Magdolon OF
| the Greek and Roman authors, situa-
ted at Tel-e-SemOut of our day. Set
ting out from Migdol, the Hebrews
camped between Migdol and the sea
/ Il. e. the Mediterranean before the
entrance of the HirOth (Phihahiroth), },
in the face of BsaI-Zephon. The Hi
roth, an Egyptian term, denotes those
fearful abysses situated between the
Mediterranean Sea and the Lake Sir
bOnis. The place of Baal-ZsphOn, in
Egyptian Baali Zapouna, is the name
of sanctuary situated at the Cassian
Mount. AS Pharaoh and his army
pursued the Hebrews on this isthmus,
between the Sea and the Lake Of Sir
bonis, to which the inscriptions give,
as to all lakes, even to the Red Sea,
the name Of Sea of Alze lam Suph),
there befell the Egyptians at those
places the same fate which in the
course of history, befel single travel
ers as well as whole armies-they
were swallowed by the abysses of the
sea of Algal or Weeds. Once arrived
at Mount Kasias, where was the cas-
tern frontier of ancient Egypt, and
where the "way of the Philistines"
begins, the Hebrews traversed, in a
southern direction, the desert of Ma
rah, "where the water was bitter"
These are the bitter-wster lakes of
our day. The sixth station, Elm, is
called in Egypt "Alim, Il. e., the
town of "fsues,") to the north OF the
Red Sea. All these indications cor
respond in Hebrew and Egyptian.
No savant can separate them from
one another, nor alter the site fixed
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