Velikovsky's Historical Sources
Ages In Chaos
Chapter 1: In Search of a Link Between Egyptian and Israelite Histories
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Two lands and their past
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What is the historical time of the Exodus?
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Plagues and portents
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Upheaval
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An Egyptian eyewitness testifies to the plagues
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Egypt in upheaval
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The last night before the Exodus
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"Firstborn" or "chosen"
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Revolt and flight
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The Hyksos invade Egypt
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Pi-ha-Khiroth
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The Ermitage papyrus
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Two questions
NEXT: Chapter II: The Hyksos
This granite shrine bears an inscription from the 4th Century BC, in which Velikovsky spotted elements which he thought comparable to circumstances recounted in the Book of Exodus. By taking a few carefully-selected short extracts, rearranging them into a different sequence, and where necessary changing the wording, he greatly increased the resemblance, while ignoring the bulk of the text, which points to a different interpretation. This document is a full extract of the relevant material from the original larger publication.
Here, for comparison with Griffith's English translation, is Goyon's French translation of the inscription on the El Arish shrine (generally known among Egyptologists as the Ismailia Shrine, being housed in the museum there). I have provided both Goyon's French text, and my own English translation.
This "synoptic" ("at-a-glance") view of Griffith's and Goyon's translations laid side-by-side enables easy comparison of the two text versions.
The "Fields of Henna" appear in the el-Arish shrine inscription, and still exist in the eastern .Nile Delta. A shrine found there by Naville in the 1880s proves that the el-Arish shrine originated in the same place, and that the locations it describes were real places during the 30th Dynasty. The two shrines complement one another and allow us to create a picture of the key locations in the el-Arish narrative, almost all of which (it turns out) were located within the temple walls of the city of Pisoped.