raamses Summary and Overview

(Ex. 1:11). (See RAMESES T0003068.)

RAAM'SES Gen 47:11; Ex 12:37; Num 33:3, 1 Chr 6:5. It was without doubt identical with Goshen as a district. If a city, Rameses was in the valley which extends from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to the Red Sea or the Bitter Lakes of Suez, and was probably the capital of Goshen. See Gen 45:10. Its precise location has not been determined. It has been proposed to identify it with - (1) Letopolis, now Baboul, a few miles south of On; (2) with On; (3) with Heroopolis, about 20 miles north-west of the Bitter Lakes; (4) at Zoan, or the modern San, a theory maintained by Dr. Brugsch; (5) with a ruin near Abbanah.