Old Testament Foundatiosn with Philip Yancey/Old Testament Foundatiosn with Philip Yancey - Disc 1.iso/pc/data/m09h13.dir/00075_ht1.text.txt

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Pharaoh:

"The government of Egypt, and ultimately the supreme monarch in whom all its powers were vested, was known as the 'Great House,' in Egyptian 'Per-o,' whence comes the term pharaoh.  The recorded rulers of Egypt, twenty-six separate dynasties, extend from Menes, 3400 b.c., to Psamtik III, deposed at the Persian conquest in 525.  The term pharaoh can be traced back to the Twenty-second Dynasty (945-745), since when it was commonly attached to the monarch's name. . . . It is reasonable to place the period of Joseph's (and Israel's) favor in Egypt in the times of the Hyksos invaders.  These foreigners, who included Canaanite and Semitic elements from Palestine, supplanted the weak rulers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties and settled in the Delta and Lower Egypt, where they maintained their power for some two centuries."  (The New International Dictionary of the Bible, © 1987 Zondervan, p. 776)