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  • Though a site carrying the name Pithom is mentioned in a late thirteenth centuryBCEtext, the more famous and prominent city of Pithom was built in the late seventh centuryBCE.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Though a site carrying the name Pithom is mentioned in a late thirteenth centuryBCEtext, the more famous and prominent city of Pithom was built in the late seventh centuryBCE.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Now Pithom is a fact, and Sukut is a fact; and when it is remembered that the departing Hebrews "journeyed from Raamses to Succoth" on their way to Etham and Pihahiroth, it at once becomes evident that we have not only found one of the "treasure-cities" built by their hands, but that we have identified the district in which that great mixed multitude first halted to rest by the way.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • And 'Pithom' and 'Raamses' (Exo 1: 11), in the Targums of

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Forty years ago Lepsius identified Tell Abû Suleiman at the westward mouth of the valley, and Tell-el-Maskhûtah near the eastward end, with the twin treasure-cities built for Pharaoh by the persecuted Israelites; and so unhesitatingly were his identifications accepted that these two places have ever since been entered in maps and guide-books as "Pithom" and "Raamses."

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • Hebrews built the cities of Pithom and Ramses while admitted no greenhouse gases beyond their own carbon dioxide.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh 2010

  • Hebrews built the cities of Pithom and Ramses while admitted no greenhouse gases beyond their own carbon dioxide.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh 2010

  • Thus, in 1972 – 1975, her formalist series of tilted pyramids aroused associations with Egypt, which she evinced through biblical and transliterated Hebrew titles: Exodus, Pithom (a city built by Israelite slaves in Egypt), Pithom Revisited (inspired by Israeli forces in Egypt during the October 1973 war), Pisgah [summit] and the two-piece Perazim [gap or breakthrough].

    Art in the United States. 2009

  • And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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