GENESIS STORY IN HIEROGLYPHICS.
EVIDENCE FOUND OF THE "SEVEN LEAN YEARS."
Quite a sensation has been caused among biblical students by the discovery by Brugsch Bey, the Qreat Egyptologist, ot a monumental inscription telling how the Nile. failed to rise for seven years m succession about 1700 years before the Christian era. A' long and terrible famine was the result. ■•'■. v B.C. 1700 is- the date recognised as the beginning of the "seven lean years/,' described m the Book of Genesis, and theologians are very interested m the confirmation which the discovery gives, m hard facts, to the famous Bible story. The account of the failure of the Nile and the continuous famine throughout the land was told m a number of extraordinary i hieroglyphics,' which Brugsch Bey, fortunately, has been able to decipher. • As the Homiletio Review says, all students of sacred' literature, to whatever schooL they may belong, are thankful for new evidences of the "real historicity of the' great Bible narratives." '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11116, 2 November 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)
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164GENESIS STORY IN HIEROGLYPHICS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11116, 2 November 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)
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