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 | | B.C.), is correct, then the first king of the eighteenth dynasty is clearly that "new king" who takes measures for keeping the Israelites in check. |
 | | Modern critics will not allow this; first, because the Israelites were put to build the store-city of Raamses, bearing the name of the later kings; secondly, because the El-Amarna letters and other monuments indicate that long after 1438 B.C., the supposed year of Joshua's invasion, Palestine was still under Egyptian control. |
 | | If the "new king" is to be placed at the end of the eighteenth dynasty rather than at its opening (which hypothesis is not in conflict with that of Joseph's ministration under a Hyksos king), it may be explained thus: Amenophis (Amen-ḥotep IV.), of the eighteenth dynasty, and his two successors |
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