Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> The name is Akhen *aten* not *adon* which is of
> course Hebrew for 'Lord'.
> As usual I'm afraid I don't follow. What
> monotheistic leader is associated with
> the number 17 1/2?
Roxana:
1. The best-known name today of Egypt's only monotheistic pharaoh can be spelled in many different ways. I see it as being:
Akh-n-Adon.
Most people spell the first word "Akh", although Frederick Giles spells it "Ikh".
The second word is more controversial. Egyptologists like to spell it "itn". The two controversies are the initial vowel sound, and the first consonant sound. Remembering that Frederick Giles starts out the first word with an "I", it is unclear in English whether to transliterate this first sound with an "I" or an "A". It is usually transliterated with an "A", and that's the way I do it.
As to the first consonant sound, Joanne has stated that Egyptian had two "T" sounds and two "D" sounds. But all those sounds were similar, and a Hebrew would not necessarily make such fine distinctions, nor would a Hebrew necessarily want to pronounce a borrowed, foreign word exactly the way the native Egyptians did. So I see the "T"/"D" sound in the second word in Akhenadon's name as being very close to that sound in the Hebrew word "Adon" meaning "lord" or "Lord".
This is my own, unique spelling, Roxana. It is based on my controversial view, that is not agreed with by any mainstream scholar, that the Hebrew word "Adon" meaning "lord" or "Lord" is a borrowed word from Egyptian, being borrowed from the Egyptian word "Adon"/"Aton"/"Aten"/"itn", an Egyptian word which I view as meaning "Lord" in a religious context (though it started out meaning the sun overhead). The Hebrews did not borrow their religious views from Egypt, but I do see the Hebrews as borrowing several words from Egypt, including "Adon".
2. I see Abraham as being the most beloved early monotheist in the Bible. Is Abraham's death associated in the Biblical text with the peculiar number 17 1/2, which I have dubbed "Secret Amarna Number 17 1/2"?
We're looking in Genesis to see if the number 17 1/2 is directly reflected in the text regarding the death of Abraham, first and foremost, and also the deaths of Jacob/"Israel" and Joseph.
If Secret Amarna Number 17 1/2 is in the received text of the Patriarchal narratives, then that would be some support for my controversial theory that the Patriarchal narratives were composed in the mid-14th century BCE by a Hebrew author who was an insider at Amarna.
We're looking on this thread at the question of whether the peculiar number 17 1/2 is a match between Amarna and the Patriarchal narratives.
Jim Stinehart
