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Abrahams visit to Egypt

About This Item

  • Title: Abrahams visit to Egypt
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00200
  • Source: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook. The verso of this manuscript cannot be imaged, and is presumably blank.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ashlyn Stewart Kevin McMullen
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Abrahams visit to Egypt." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 April 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: tex.00200.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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  • Abrahams visit to Egypt 2000 BC.—took his handmaid Hagar—their son Ishmael progenitor of the Arabs—
  • Abraham; 2000yrs (B.C.)
  • Birth of Hercules 1205 (B.C.)
  • Death of Hercules 1153 "
[illegible]exandrian Library

700,000 vols—commenced by Ptolemy Philadelphus—destroyed either by enraged Christians under Theodosius the great, or 390 A.C., or by Saracens under Omar, 642 A. C. or by

  • Job (of the land of Uz Arabia) 2300 B.C.
  • Menes—(first)
  • Moses 1600 B.C.
  • Zoroaster—1400 B.C.
  • Confucius—500 B.C
  • Socrates—400 B.C.

  • Deluige​ —

  • 2348 (B.C.) English Bible
  • 3246—Septuagint
  • Josephus makes it 3146
  • Menes 1st according to Manethe  
     5867 B.C.
  • Osortasen—2088—B.C.
  • Sesostris or Remeses 2d 1355 B.C.
  • Solomon born 1032 B.C.
  • Solomon's temple (? finished) 600 BC.
  • Herodotus 430 B.C.
  • Alexander the Great 332 B.C.
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