It will agree with the conception of many of the readers of "Joshua." The case will be different with those portions of the story which I have interwoven upon the ground of ancient Egyptian records.

They will surprise the laymen; for few have probably asked themselves how the events related in the Bible from the standpoint of the Jews affected the Egyptians, and what political conditions existed in the realm of Pharaoh when the Hebrews left it.

I have endeavored to represent these relations with the utmost fidelity to the testimony of the monuments.

For the description of the Hebrews, which is mentioned in the Scriptures, the Bible itself offers the best authority.

The character of the "Pharaoh of the Exodus" I also copied from the Biblical narrative, and the portraits of the weak King Menephtah, which have been preserved, harmonize admirably with it.