325 Recent Testimony of Archaeology to the Scriptures. s ti o a - n m s u w ch a - s ta n lk o e t d a -a r b e o s u u t rr r e e c s t u io rr n ec a t t io a n ll, in bu t t he a b r e e l s ie u f sc o it f at t i h o e n E to gy th p e same old life on "oxen, geese, bread, wine, beer, and all good l t e h m ing o s, f " t i h s e f o u b r s n c is u h r i i n ty g o a f m th o e st id co ea mp o l f ete th s e ol r u e t s i u o r n re o c f tio t n he in pro th b e Pentateuchal documents. For, whether they came from Moses when he had just come from E gy pt or are by some later author attributed to Moses, when he had just come from E gy pt, the problem is the sameu: Why is the idea of the resurrection &;:: obscure in the Pentateuch? Now to have put forth in revela• tion the idea of the resurrection at that time, before the growth of spiritual ideas of God and of worship here, of the other world and the future life there, and before the people under the influence of these new ideas had outgrown their E gy ious p t t h ia in n k t i r n a g in a in ll g, th w e o l u o l w d , h d a e v g e ra ca d r in ri g ed m o a v te e r r ia in li t s o m Is o r f ae E l's relig gy ptian belief on this subject. The Mosaic system made no use of E gy ptian belief concerning the future life because it was not by it usable, and it kept away from open presentation of the subject altogether, because that was the only way to get the people away from E gy pt's conception of the subject. WELLHAUSEN'S MISTAKE. 4. The discovery of the Aramaic papyri at Syene ,J
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