Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ...(Itinerarium D. Benjaminis, cum Versions et Notis Constantini Lempriere. Ludg. Bat. 1633.) RABBI BENJAMEN (1633) Was born at Tudela in Spain, and travelled from 1160 to 1173. He wrote an account of his adventures in Hebrew, in which he observes, that there was a Pyramid (Anuid) near Mesr (Cairo), constructed with great skill, the most extraordinary building in the world.4 He adds, that the Granaries of Joseph were composed of the finest masonry, and were distant two parasangs from the antient city, which had been entirely destroyed, but that the ruins of walls and of houses remained. The Pyramid was near the Granaries, and was built with matchless skill.5 3 As the Pyramid was not opened, this could not have been ascertained. Anuid may mean column or obelisk, as well as pyramid. It seems that the Pyramids destroyed by Karacoush were called the Granaries of Joseph. (See De Sacy.) As one Pyramid is only mentioned, the author was probably anxious to attribute the erection of these buildings to the Hebrews. The tradition that the Pyramids were the Granaries of Joseph, is also mentioned by Marinus Sametus Toxellus, in his work, " Secreta Fidelium Crucis," which he presented to the pope in 1321. He observes, --about fifteen miles from Babylon in Ej'ypt are some extremely lofty triangular Pyramids, which are said to have been the Granaries of Joseph, and near them are the ruins of the antient city Thebes. PROFESSOR GREAVES (1638-9), In the two first chapters of his work upon the Pyramids, examines at considerable length several of the antient authors, whom we have already quoted, respecting their construction, and comes to the conclusion that the Great Pyramid was built by Cheops (the same as Chemmis; or Cham with a Greek termination), ...
