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FRAGMENT OF AN ANCIENT HEBREW PAPYRUS—THE OLDEST IN THE WORLD—DISCOVERED BY PROFESSOR FLINDERS PETRIE. For translation see Appendix. THE STATUS OF THE JEWS IN EGYPT BY W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.B.A. Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University College WITH A FOREWORD BY Sir PHILIP SASSOON, Bart., M.P. LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1 All rights reserved First published in 1922...

The Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture was founded in 1917, under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England, by his collaborators in the translation of “The Service of the Synagogue,” with the object of fostering Hebraic thought and learning in honour of an unworldly scholar. The Lecture is to be given annually in the anniversary week of his death, and the lectureship is to be open to men or women of any race or creed, who are to have absolute liberty in the treatment of their subject.

By Sir Philip Sassoon , Bart., M.P. I thank the Society for the honour they have done me in asking me to preside upon so interesting an occasion. Professor Petrie needs no introduction; and I can but express the gratitude of the meeting to him for coming to lecture on an absorbing topic. We should have to go very far to find a more eminent Egyptologist. He is not limited to a discussion and criticism of other men’s discoveries; he is a most successful excavator himself. He has with his own hands

In considering the history of any people, one of the main elements is that of their status. What were their abilities and how were they shown? What permanent mark did they make on their period? How did they stand in reference to their neighbours, in the same country and in other countries? There are now Jews in Lemberg and Jews in Paris; but how entirely differently we regard them, because of their status. How utterly diverse is the mark left on the world by the men of mind, by Isaiah or Aristot

[1] Petrie, History , i, Fig. 6. [2] Petrie, Scarabs , xix; Egypt and Israel , Fig. 1. [3] Clay, Empire of the Amorites . [4] Petrie, Egypt and Israel , Figs. 2, 5. [5] Petrie, Scarabs , xv, A.C. [6] Petrie, History , i, Apepa 1. [7] History , i, Khyan. [8] Hastings, Dict. Bib. , Abrekh . [9] Petrie, Six Temples , 28. [10] To appear in Herakleopolis . [11] Ex. v. 14. [12] Egypt and Israel , 68. [13] Petrie, Tanis , 11; Defenneh , 48-53. [14] Jer. xliv. 1. [15] Jer. xliv. 30. [16] Petrie, Naukrat

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