Show THE OLDEST ZOOK IK THE WORLD IT IS 18 NOT ath BIB LEpAS MANY MAY 1 I I 1 THINK ACCORDING TO A T 9 R i j baltimore americans jh J H mitch nier fit m wib knowledge t 6 k dye for ane gives an interesting account of odthe ath C old 9 tat eat bookin the worlds marywill Many I 1 will ill suppose atthe Ih L the bible W U r anew meant 1 taut but the ave giaver ca claimed aimed the h deax earlier iiii joo aois of the Bib leere w e r P to ahe exodus from ax w U tae 6 tj was atten at eaxt 1 60 0 y before to Moses mom vaa as li 0 omanA mahy year years before the occurrence cuirence oc a of the h deluge by JL a frenchman named at thebes s atthe at 4 the tik in froin found af one odthe taj of ane wai orf tiff first th ivin jha it tae ahe jaim manuscript ulic api I 1 was li written aid it least prid rito but k i afi evi nce o i atthe thil date of its ts composition aud arid contains S A extracts fronia work AM wa amp fa tel k t b prefect tah q fe fx eiso r aj j n athis 4 this po as teni ate 1 I was s the the i aliw I 1 laaff SIL but bv butone A 1 ore one r i ak so t th atthe book aust U leave ve vz B ci br considerably h owr byj 7 4 7 21 VA pitk t V i an by ozithe tk was 3 y aty y y s f r R mat f at SS fr te M ai J A f fore the pyramids were built about B C w himli would make it if m texi stence now W ais old antedating fa old ld chronologists idida and as i some still bea believe the t e creation of adam in the garden id of f ed eden en bir or i at least eai his fall all from fi oln grace thi the book le is written in hieratic and has is been trai translated slata into I 1 french bym 1 I virey ie ir yau and in into t english englishby by Prof tits nisin value is is sot no as a literary curiosity ant for the insight it gives into the education and culture which ha had d been reached 1 by man manat at thit tha early period in the history hii story of A the human race its writers writer atah hosep was waa a prefect a place of great dignity aha responsibility knoer uner the ancient egyptian kings 6 it was second only to that t off the king the same office which was helsby held by joseph the son of jacob during the latter portion of his career as told in the bible the prefect was a t sort of tooh pooh bah or treasurer secre secretary tar of state and chief justice of the Supreme Sup pemel couri Court rolled into boneso one so that what is s said sai in the book must be 16 accepted im as au so far as it joes goes the book upsets some theories concerning the origin of a number of philosophic reflections electious rei for they are ard foun found dhere here divested bish several tho thousand years before the che advent of the greeks who were I 1 thought 7 to have originated them its whole tone is lofty not relatively but bat actually and would be creditable to a mora moral I 1 writer in the nineteenth pen century tury it deals with individual conduct and the government gove ram ent of the state persons holding public positions are urged to labor at all times to be true gentlemen lest from the their irown own defects of character they suffer buffer the authority given them by favor of the supreme being to be weakened ev numerous allusion sare made to the supreme being and they thet are am always in the singular nufi number iberi proving chathas what lias been claimed by that the religion of th egyptians wa sw it that gin only amoni among g th the e lf r ignorant agn t classes were bere iere birds aud and beasts and images which whick were 1 intended I ded by i the religion as ag types of certain of 1 gods attributes worshiped as gods moses who was really a prince in Egypt so faras his hii social standing wint went was educated edia by bj the priests and of bf course course well understood od the ifie monotheistic chai character acter of the egy egyptian religion r but 4 he saw that the masses of the people haaso prostitutes prostituted their religion that he was audious anxious to get the hebrews a as far away from bonx their heir pernicious arnicious erni cious example as possible pose ab leth but it is ii reasonable to suppose that t afi athe age of atah hosep he ter this book nearly 2000 years MUMS alb afore before moses was bom there hafl been aeu no such buch perversion of thew the h e egyptians wl as disgusted the great lawgiver agi aej 0 of this book it ii mastbe iiii borne ki ia mind was CAS sot an isolated example of bf culture Q and scholarship li ni was t the he perfectly div of a civilization divilio aaion V wandi haaf leaor to io that of la a cen century u ago and which birbich 01 clent libi libraries aari rari a people i ap 1 0 hughly instruct ed d fixa in i all of peace Ji state yu 0 anize hierarchy e i f firmly founded f Aun fa divid i v d the e q eally al ya cliff diffused doting and band the on 40 bf pap in sh orta ci civilization i which r in au r ea points has already attained laff ita jh oi r 1 a 0 fil c 1 70 ay investigation lda 6 afi JL is f further uit if id i d development airdo p 1 0 f 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