Rameses : Ramses or Ramesses, name of several kings of ancient Egypt of the XIX & XX dynasties; the most notable of them was Rameses II (1292-1225 BC).
... other epigraphs too and nowhere connotes Hebrews. Rather it means foreign warriors and prisoners of war reduced to slaves. Sethna takes his point of departure from the phrase "the land of Rameses", from where the Exodus began, as marking the original settlement of the Israelites, identifying it as the Biblical Goshen where Jacob's people were allowed to settle by Joseph's Pharaoh. Sethna examines ...
... for gaps in the culture—well, I don't know Russian or Finnish (missing the Kalevala ) and have not read the Nibelungenlied in the original, nor for that matter Pentaur's poem on the conquests of Rameses in ancient Egyptian or at least the fragment of it that survives. I don't know Arabic either but I don't mind that having read Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights which is as much a classic ...
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