Recent Testimony of Archaeology to the Scriptures. 31 wandering tribes of “Upper and Lower Ruthen,” in the tongue of the Egyptians, Haq Shashu, “Bedouin princes” ; 'and among princes, a prince is a prince, however small his principality. So Abraham, the Bedouin prince, was accorded princely con sideration at the Bedouin court in Egypt; Joseph, the Bedouin slave, became again the Bedouin prince when the wisdom of God with him and his rank by birth became known. And. Jacob and his other sons were welcome, with all their follow ers and their wealth, as a valuable acquisition to the (jourt party, always harassed by the restive and rebellious native Egyptians. This does not prove racial identity between the Hyksos and the patriarchs, but very close tribal relationship. And thus every suspicion of a mythical element in the nar rative of the reception accorded the patriarchs in Egypt dis appears when archaeology has testified to the true historical setting. II. THE H ITTITE VINDICATION. A second recent testimony of archaeology gives us the great Hittite vindication. The Hittites have been, in one respect, the Trojans of Bible history; indeed, the inhabitants of old Troy were scarcely more in need of a Schliemann to vindicate their claim to reality than the Hittites of a Winckler. In 1904 one of the foremost archaeologists of Europe said to me: “I do not believe there ever were such people as the Hittites, and I do not believe ‘Kheta’ in the Egyptian inscrip tions was meant for the name Hittites.” We will allow that archaeologist to be nameless now. But the ruins of Troy vin dicated the right of her people to a place in real history, and the ruins of Boghatz-Koi bid fair to afford a more striking vindication of the Bible representation of the Hittites.- Only the preliminary announcement of Winckler’s great treasury of documents from Boghatz-Koi has yet been made(14). The complete unfolding of a long-eclipsed great national history is still awaited impatiently. But enough has
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