Excerpt from Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered Before, the Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey As to Joseph's place in Egypt, I find additional reasons for the main contentions of the lecture. Mr. Tomkins thinks my "chronology untenable," but Mr. Tomkins was writing to support his own contention, which regards Joseph's Pharaoh as a Shepherd King. I know that Mr. Naville agrees with him on this point, but neither of them has seriously attacked the question. I would be grateful if either of them would draw up a chronological scheme that would include all the monumental elements as to the order of succession and regnal periods of the era, and then would attempt to harmonise such a definite chronology with the numerous data of Genesis and Exodus, as well as with what we may call coincidences in thought and expression gathered from both the Scripture and the Egyptian traditions. I am sure that then neither they, nor even Herr Brugsch with his fertile imagination, would again attempt the task of pushing back Joseph into the Shepherd era. My main contentions in the lecture are (1), that Joseph's Pharaoh belonged to a native dynasty; and (2), that he was one of the Eighteenth dynasty Kings. I went further, and thought myself justified in picking out two great Kings of that dynasty (according as one adopted a longer or shorter Egyptian chronology) - to wit, Thothmes III. and Amenophis III., either of whose reigns, as respects length and other particulars, could satisfy the requirements of the Genesis-story. Of course, certainty and perfect accuracy were then as now out of the question; but whatever one may affirm, it has never yet been proven that either the longer or the shorter chronology in dispute is "untenable." I would like to see an offered scheme that is more tenable. There are a number of difficulties requiring explanation on the part of those who affirm that Joseph's Pharaoh was a Shepherd King. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.