Note 116 — Chapter I · THE HEBREW PATRIARCHS (continued 2)

See Brugsch, Egypt under the Pharaohs (Eng. tr.), 2nd edit., i. pp. 262, 263. ‘Captain’ Ahmes, who took part in the War of Independence under Ahmes I., calls himself the son of Abana, and traces his descent to his ‘forefather Baba.’ In Abana, Maspero (The Struggle of the Nations, p. 85) sees the Semitic Abîna, ‘Our father.’