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  • Josephus relates this account of Manetho, which is apparently truthful, with great indignation.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Master Hiero, for his part, calls the Egyptian "Manetho"; from which we might infer his descent from the celebrated historian of that name, but will not insist upon this genealogy.

    Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • The Walter Bower manuscript gives the name of Scota’s father as Achencres, and a historian called Manetho, writing around 300 BC, gives Achencres as the Greek version of Akhenaten.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Carla 2007

  • The Walter Bower manuscript gives the name of Scota’s father as Achencres, and a historian called Manetho, writing around 300 BC, gives Achencres as the Greek version of Akhenaten.

    Kingdom of the Ark, by Lorraine Evans. Book review Carla 2007

  • It is noteworthy that despite the negative views of Jews and Judaism expressed by authors such as Manetho, Apion, Tacitus and Juvenal, the Jewish identity of Jerusalem is always clear and never a subject of dispute.

    In The Days 2008

  • He organizes his narrative by ruling family or "dynasty," following a design first set down by the Egyptian priest Manetho, whose account of Egyptian history written in Greek ca.

    Beyond the Pharaohs Joseph Manning 2011

  • According to Manetho their leader was a priest from Heliopolis whose birth name was Osarseph — after the Heliopolian god Osiris — but which he later changed to Moses — an Egyptian name that means "son" or “is born” and was often used as part of the names of pharaohs or gods.

    The Exodus 2009

  • Manetho claims that Teti was assassinated by his bodyguards.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Manetho tells us, were expelled from Egypt because they infected and polluted the population.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I do not now recollect where I read that your ears were of the party; it might be in some fragments of Manetho, cited by

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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