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291 hr Yy fl ing the inscription the meaning "Jacob is satisfied" or "Jacob is at peace." Jacob was 130 years old when the Children of Israel began their sojourn in Egypt; as prophesied, it ended in bondage four hundred years later. It is with the death and burial of Jacob, and the subsequent death and mummification of Jo- seph, that the Book of Genesis ends. The Book of Exodus picks up the story centuries later, "when there arose a new king over Egypt who knew not Joseph." In the intervening centuries much had happened in Egypt. There were civil wars, the capital shifted back and forth, the era of the Middle Kingdom passed, the so-called Second Intermediary Period of chaos took place. In 1650 B.C. the New Kingdom began with the seventeenth dynasty, and in 1570 B.c. the renowned eighteenth dynasty ascended the Pharaonic throne in Thebes, in Upper (southern) Egypt, leav- ing behind its magnificent monuments, temples, and _ statues in Karnak and Luxor and its splendid tombs hidden inside the mountains, in the Valley of the Kings. Many of the throne names chosen by the Pharaohs of those new dynasties were epithets by which they asserted their sta- tus as demigods; such was the name Ra-Ms-S (Ramesses or Ramses in English) which meant "From the god Ra ema- nated." The founder of the seventeenth dynasty called him- self Ah-Ms-S (Ah-Mose) (Fig. 102a) meaning "From the god The Greatest Theophany Figure 107 Tehuti.ms.s Figures 102a and 102b