Uniqueness of the Prophetic Books. An Assyrian Prophetic Vision. Comparison with the Bible. The Egyptian Social Conscience. Tale of the Eloquent Peasant. Comparison with the Bible. An Ideal King; Extract from the Admonitions of Ipuwer. Comparison with Messianic Expectations. Sheol. Ishtar’s Descent to the Underworld. Comparison with Prophetic Passages. A Lamentation for Tammuz. XXV. REPUTED SAYINGS OF JESUS FOUND IN EGYPT 428 Early Collections of the Words of Jesus. Translation of Sayings found in 1897. Comments. Translation of a Leaf found in 1904. Comments. Opinions as to these Sayings. XXVI. ARCHÆOLOGICAL LIGHT ON THE ENROLMENT OF QUIRINIUS 432 Translation of a Papyrus showing that in the Second Century Enrolment was made Every Fourteen Years. Comments. Translation referring to an Enrolment in the Reign of Nero. Fragment from the Reign of Tiberius. Enrolments probably inaugurated by Augustus. Document showing that People went to their own towns for Enrolment. Inscription supposed to refer to Quirinius. Inscription from Asia Minor referring to Quirinius. Discussion. Conclusions. XXVII. ARCHÆOLOGICAL LIGHT ON THE ACTS AND EPISTLES 438 The Politarchs of Thessalonica. An Altar to Unknown Gods. An Inscription from Delphi and the Date of Paul’s Contact with Gallio. Some Epistles from Egypt. Inscriptions mentioning Aretas, King of Arabia. APPENDIX 445 Discoveries at Carchemish. Hrozny’s Decipherment of Hittite. Discoveries at Jerusalem and Balata. A New Babylonian Account of the Creation of Man. Reports of Commanders of Egyptian Frontier-Fortresses Relating to the Entrance of Asiatics into Egypt in Time of Famine. Supposed Trace of the Ten Lost Tribes in Mesopotamia. INDEX OF SCRIPTURE PASSAGES 453 INDEX 459 ILLUSTRATIONS: Plates 1-114. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A Hillside Street in Roman Jerusalem along which Jesus and the Disciples may well have walked _Frontispiece._ FIGURE PLATE 1 Syrian Traders in Egypt, from a Tomb at Beni Hasan (_after Ball_) 1 2 Crown of Lower Egypt 1 3 Crown of Upper Egypt 1 4 Crown of United Egypt 1 5 Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre 1 6 Pyramids of Khufu and Khafre 2 7 Step Pyramid of Zoser 2