THE EGYPTIAN PERIOD
Supposing the claim of the rebuilders to be true, then there is at Edfu the model of a 2900 B.C. or earlier library building. From this time on there are frequent mentions of the king's writings, a scribe, a scribe of the king's writings, a chief scribe of the king's records, and an inferior scribe of the king's records; Henhathor about 2750 B.C., Senezemib about 2675 B.C., Khenu about 2580, Zau 2525 and many others.
About the time of the Pyramid texts themselves, or say 2750 B.C., it appears that the palace library of King Neferikere had medical papyri in portable cases, which shows among other things that the palace library was not merely a business archive.
The time of Abraham's visit to Egypt, i.e., the time of Hammurabi, falls, according to the latest chronologists, between 1950 and 1900. This touches the reign of Sesostris I, Amenemhet III and
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