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Manetho: History of Egypt and Other Works (Loeb Classical Library No. 350) Hardcover January 31, 1940 Unknown Binding

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Manetho was an Egyptian of the 3rd century BCE. Born probably at Sebennytus in the Delta, he became a priest or high priest at Heliopolis. Apparently he and a Greek Timotheus did much to establish the cult of Serapis in Egypt. Eight works or parts of works were ascribed to him, all on history and religion and all apparently in Aegyptiaca, on the history of Egypt; The Sacred Book on Egyptian religion; An Epitome of Physical Doctrines; On Festivals; On Ancient Ritual and Religion; On the Making of Kyphi (an incense); The Criticisms of Herodotus; and the spurious Book of Sôthis. These survive only as quoted by other writers. This volume also contains the doubtful Kings of Thebes (in Egypt) and the Old Chronicle.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2019
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    Very cool, I'm studying ancient Egypt. All students of ancient mythology history should acquire.
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  • John N. Churchill
    5.0 out of 5 stars extremely valuable book
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    Lots of good data in this book. And the numbers do not conflict once you realize that the dynasties are often concurrent, not sequential.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly what I expected, but at least there ...
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    Not exactly what I expected , but at least there is some a record of Moses , Joshua and Hyksos .
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  • Larry DeVaughn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening
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  • Steve Reina
    5.0 out of 5 stars Who was Moses?
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2007
    Who was Moses?

    Did the Exdous really occur?

    These are among some of the questions addressed in this short work. It was written at the behest of Ptolemy II second in the Ptolemic and last of the Egyptian dynasties (of which Cleopatra would later so immortalize). At the time of its commission, Ptolemy II wanted a complete history of Egypt from its inception to the time of Alexander the Great.

    Regrettably the work now exists only in fragments as they were preserved by later writers. Nonetheless what does exist provides interesting glimpses into the Egyptian view of the Exodus.

    Instead of denying the Exodus, Manetho put an Egyptian spin on it, saying that Moses' true name was Osarseph and that he was essentially a renegade priest during the time of Akenaten. Far from casting the Israelites as couregous freedom fighters, Manetho paints them as forced expatriots, forceably kicked out of their country.

    This Egyptian view of the matter later came to serve as a centerpiece to Gary Greenberg in his Moses Mystery wherein he speculated that the Exodus did indeed occur around the time of the reign of Akenaten and really did involve support from the then then disopossessed Egyptian priesthood. As is known generally to historians, Akenaten proclaimed the sole worship of the Aten or sun disk at the expense of all other then existent Egyptian religions.

    While it is certainly logically plausible that the priests dispossed by Akenaten's reforms would have rebelled, the link between any antipathy they experienced and a genuine Israelite Exodus has now come to be disregarded on other grounds. For one thing, as shown in his book Who were the Israelites and Where did they come from? archeologist William Dever expressed the conventional viewpoint that their is no archeological evidence to support the existence of a historical Exodus of Israelites from Egypt. For another, while it is true that Manetho denies but puts a different spin the Israelite Exodus, it was not uncommon in history writing at the time for one countries writers to similarly downplay the histories of other peoples.

    In other words, while the Manetho assertions certainly provide interesting fodder for academic speculation it's probably best to limit that speculation to merely what the second century BCE Egyptians were saying about the Israelite Exodus and not the fact whether such an Exodus actually occured.
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  • J. Buford
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Egyptian version of the Exodus
    Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2004
    In history, Manetho was a 3rd century B.C.E. priest of Heliopolis commissioned to write a definitive work on the story of Egypt from its inception to the time of Alexander the Great. Disappointingly, Manetho's orignal work is lost. Tantalizingly, all we have are his various quotations from the likes of later writers including Josephus and Church historian Eusebius, Bishop of Caesaria. This work collects these various quotes in a few pages of its text and gives us a partial glimpse at that which was originally nothing less than the Egyptian version of the Exodus. This is critical because contemporary students of biblical history usually only find these quotes further removed from their source in other more contemporary works that themselves quote the earlier writers like Josephus or Eusebius (who themselves, of course, are only quoting). What this book reveals is that we only have a very bare bones and sketchy picture of the Exodus as Manetho saw it. From his perspective, the Hebrews did not bravely obtain their freedom but were forced from the land of Egypt. Proto historical spin doctoring aside, the account significantly does not deny the Exodus but rather attempts to caste it in a different light. As biblical archeology sifts the detritus of the Sinai for hard evidence of the Exodus, this book perhaps offers hope that the search is not in vain.
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  • jim lawson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Manetho mistranslated
    Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2014
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    It's Manetho translated by Josephus (and several others) who seems to hate Manetho and refuses to accept Manetho's
    kings and dates if they don't adhere exactly to the Jewish Bible. So as history, it's useless. As to what Manatho actually wrote,
    we have no idea. As an example of bias and bigotry, it's fascinating. According to Josephus, the Egyptians were descended from Ham, the son of Noah, because the Biblical flood destroyed everything so there couldn't possibly be any Egyptians before Noah.
    Every part of the Old Testament has to be accounted for in Josephus' translation, but since Manetho clearly didn't agree with this, Josephus calls him a liar. It's possible that Manetho's History of Egypt has almost nothing to do with Manetho. For example, Manetho doesn't mention that the Jews were slaves in Egypt - nor does any other source but the Old Testament - so Manetho must be wrong. Josephus only accepts Jewish orthodoxy and he probably decided to translate Manetho to communicate this.
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  • 不乱拳酒太院
    4.0 out of 5 stars 長らく幻の書だったが、やっと入手できた
    Reviewed in Japan on May 27, 2018
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    エジプトの文化、歴史に興味を持つ人間には避けて通れぬ書籍。長い間、入手できることさえ知らず、今回やっと入手できた。これからじっくり活用したい。
    各代の王についての記述が、簡単な英文と聞いていたが、見たこともない単語が多くてよむのに手古摺る。しかし、2000年前のギリシャ語の翻訳だから、これは当たり前。読むのに苦労するこちらのレベルの低さを恨むしかない。
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2010
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    This book contains information on the 'kings list' from various sources in greek and latin with simultaneous translations.
    Useful for learners of the languages perhaps, but not overly informative in its own right.
    I rate it somewhere near the bottom of my top 500 books.
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