Jim Stiinehart Wrote:
. In my view, Akhenadon viewed Adon as
> being the monotheistic manifestation of Egypt's
> old Sun god Rah.
You can't spell 'Ra' either. The Aten was the visible disk an aspect
of Ra.
The Hebrews generally did not
> view their deity, YHWH, as being a Sun god.
As far as I can tell we *never* identified our Lord with the Sun
The
> Hebrews' deity is very different than Akhenadon's
> deity.
Thank you for that. And it's Aken*ATEN* *not* Adon!
> Nevertheless, the Hebrew author of the
> Patriarchal narratives goes to some lengths to
> downplay the obvious, fundamental differences
> between early Hebrew religious thought and the
> peculiar religious views of Akhenadon. But the
> Hebrew author never tries to claim that the
> Hebrews were worshipping a Sun god.
Say what????
> 3. Rather than setting fire to your library of
> the secular history of ancient Egypt, I recommend,
> on the contrary that you add to that library, and
> re-read what you have in your library. None of my
> views knowingly contradict the underlying secular
> facts of the well-known secular history of the
> mid-14th century BCE. Of course, there is not a
> unanimous opinion among Egyptologists as to many
> of such items, but I believe that my views of the
> underlying secular facts of Amarna are, at least
> for the most part, well within the mainstream
> views.
I hate to disillusion you but I really, really doubt that.
> In particular:
>
> (a) Everyone knows that Akhenadon reigned for 17
> or 17 1/2 years.
Right.
> (b) Everyone knows that the Hittites took most of
> Syria and Lebanon during the first 15 years of
> Akhenadon's reign.
About right.
> (c) Everyone knows that the Hittites did not
> march south of Lebanon and invade Canaan.
We do?
> So I'm dealing with the same basic secular facts
> of the mid-14th century BCE as everyone else. If
> the Hebrews were in existence in the mid-14th
> century BCE,
A huge, enormous if. The earliest mention of the tribes of Israel is the
famous 'Israel Stela' which dates to very late 13th c. BCE and strongly
indicates - to me anyway - that our people are still wandering pastoralists.
it makes sense that the Hebrews would
> greatly appreciate the fact that under Akhenadon's
> reign, the dreaded Hittites did not in fact invade
> Canaan, though there was a very realistic risk
> that the Hittites would invade Canaan in the
> mid-14th century BCE under the greatest Hittite
> king of all time: Suppiluliuma I.
If you ask me they'd have been more likely to sign up as auxillaries to help loot
Canaanite cities.
> 4. On this thread, we'll see if Secret Amarna
> Number 17 1/2 is in the Patriarchal narratives,
> and in particular if Secret Amarna Number 17 1/2
> is connected in the Biblical text with the deaths
> of the three most beloved monotheists in the
> Patriarchal narratives: Abraham, Jacob/"Israel",
> and Joseph. Either the number 17 1/2, in a
> slightly disguised form, is there in the text, or
> it isn't.
>
It isn't.
> 5. I cannot change what the received text of the
> Patriarchal narratives in Genesis says. Either
> Secret Amarna Number 17 1/2 is there, or it
> isn't.
It isn't.
