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By Christian Jacq
Within the ultimate novel within the bestselling sequence, Christian Jacq writes of the Hittite king who desires Ramses to marry his daughter, whereas insurrection is brewing one of the revenge-driven Libyans.
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In this case, this text does not indicate any direct contact between Egypt and Palestine at the end of the twenty-first dynasty. (3) Possibly, they may have wandered into Egypt, 129. M. Blackman, The Stela of Shoshenk, Great Chief of the Meshwesh', JEA 27 (1941), pp. 83-95 (84), pi. 11. 130. J. Yurco, 'Merenptah's Canaanite Campaign', JARCE 23 (1986), pp. 189215 (190); Gardiner, Ancient Egyptian Onomastica, I, pp. 180-87. Khor's boundaries are very uncertain and probably were very fluid. On the basis of Papyrus Anastasi III, A.
A few have challenged the equation Shishak=Shoshenq. 25-28; 2 Chron. 33 First, as noted earlier, the fifth year of Rehoboam could have occurred almost anytime between c. 970 and 915 BCE. Secondly, no extant Egyptian text gives the year in Shoshenq's reign in which the campaign occurred. Scholars generally hold that the campaign occurred late in his reign,34 since building for the Bubastite Portal on which the campaign was commemorated did not begin until Shoshenq's twenty-first year. 36 That the building of a commemoration for the campaign did not begin until Shoshenq's twenty-first argued that the extant descriptions of Shishak's campaign in the Bible and that of Shoshenq on the Bubastite portal are too dissimilar to warrant the conclusion that they are the same campaign.
37. Y. Aharoni's list shows this clearly (in his The Land of the Bible [Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979], p. 325). 156.