328 The Fundamentals. tah by the papyrus Anastasiac�s, ; Moab, for some time past in dispute, I identified beyond further controversy at Luxor in 1908, in an inscription of Rameses II., before the time of the Exodus< 59 > ; while Hilprecht at Nippur < 00 i , Glaser in Arabia< 0 1 > , Petrie at Maghereh and along the route of the Exodus< 02 > , and i R ca ei l s , n e e th r n a o t g S r a a m ph a i r c i a a l a ha n v d e h b i e st e o n ri a c d a d l i i n d g en a ti m fic u a l t t i i o tu n d s. e of geograph idly T a h p e pr c o o a m c p h l i e n t g io , n an o d f t t h h e e w co h l o lo le ca l t i i s o t n o o f f id t e h n e t s i e fic i a d t e io n n ti s fic is at r io a n p s has given us anew, from entirely independent testimony o' f archaeology, the whole outline of the biblical narrative and t it o s ri s c u a r l r i o m u a n g d i i n n a g t s i , on at a o n n d ce th t e he su n r e e c s e t s f s o a u ry nd m at a io te n ria o l f f a o p r ol t o h g e et h ic is s . Fancy for a moment that the peoples, places and events of the wanderings of Ulysses should be identifiedu: all the strange s ro cr u i t b e ed o , f t t h r e av c e u l ri f o o u l s lo c w r e ea d t ; u t r h e e s, r h e a m lf ar h k u a m bl a e n la a n n d d s h v a i l s f it m ed on a s n t d ro d u e s , and even unmistakable traces of strange events, found, all just as the poet imagined, what a transformation in our views of Homer's great epic must take place l Henceforth that romance would be history. Let us reverse the process and fancy that t t l h e e k p n eo o p w l n es, fr p o la m ces i , nd a e n p d en e d ve e n n t t s s o o f ur t c h e e s B a i s ble th s e tor w y an w d e e r r e in a g s s li o t f i Ung ly ly sse p s u ; t th th e e in B te i l b l l e e ctu st a o l ry tem in pe t r he of sa t m hi e s a m g y e th w ic o a u l ld ca u te n g h o e r s y ita i t n which have always been the romances of Homer. If it were possible to blot out biblical geography, biblical ethnology, and biblical history from the realm of exact knowledge, so would we put out the eyes of faith, henceforth our religion would be blind, stone blind. Thus the value of the rapid progress of identifications appears. It is the identifications which differentiate history f o r r o d m of m e y v t e h n , ts ge f o r g om rap t h a y les fr o o f m "n th ev e er "la w n a d s," of Sc n r o ip w t h u e r r e e, f " ro t m he fo re lk c lore, and the Gospel of the Saviour of the world from the de-
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