Opening Day 2008 for the Timber Rattlers is April 3. That is 37 days from today. This off-season, the countdown will be based on books. Each day between now and Opening Day 2008, I will pick a random book out of my library and excerpt a passage off the page number corresponding with the number of days remaining to the first pitch of the new season. I will try not to repeat a book during the countdown.
Today’s book is Ancient Egypt with General Editor: David P. Silverman.
Shoshenq is best known for leading a campaign into Palestine that is mentioned in the Bible (1 Kings 14.25-6), where he is called “Shishak”. At home, he managed to reintegrate southern Egypt into the kingdom for almost a century. However, the forces of separatism proved stronger in the end, and by the reign of Shoshenq III they affected not only Thebes but also the Delta, which saw the rise of an increasing number of autonomous princes. By the middle of the eighth century BCE, at the height of this so-called “Libyan anarchy”, no fewer than nine major kingdoms and principalities (most of them known collectively as the Twenty-Third Dynasty) coexisted in Egypt.
Put today’s excerpt in a baseball context.
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