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- From: Lloyd Barre <barre AT c-zone.net>
- To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
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- Subject: 'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh
- Date: 06 Mar 99 00:44:42 -0800
Dear List:
Even intuively it is apparent that this divine name is not Semitic. God is described on a reveling in the verb, "to be[come]" (Egyptian: xeper). It is a religion of ontology whose only source into Israelite tradition could have been Egypt. Israelite tradition ascribes it to Egypt by ascribing it to Moses, who if not actually Egyptian as I maintain, was a virtual Egyptian that included his royal education. When we look to Egyptian theology as in The Memphite Theology and Ra and the Serpent, we do indeed discover a religion that was based upon the verb and who regarded Dynamic Being as animated by a thought of Ptah being spoken to produce life. Existence is portrayed as a Body of Becoming infused throughout with life through divine thought expressed through word of Ptah. "I am Becoming what I am Becoming" would be the sense of the name. If we know Moses' full name, it may well have been Ptah-mose. Egyptian ontology lived on in the Levites, those thinkers like Ptah-mose who argued with his royal sibling Rameses II that the treatment of the Hebrew slaves did not conform to Maat, the immanent moral characteristic of Becoming. According, Ptah-mose and his followers offered to take the Hebrews home and leave with them as Moses. The thought-word-creation of an ontological concept of God extends to the Johannine community and then to the Doctrine of the Trinity. Accordingly, ontological thought originated with Ptah, passed through Israelite history to its most eloquent _expression_ with the Levitical Priestly Writer, whose theology allowed him to absorb El and Yahweh, and to the Community of the Beloved. Accordingly, an understanding of Israel's primary theological trajectory is to be traced from Memphis. In short, the devotees of Ptah knew the same God ! as the Johannine Christians. One might say that "John's" gospel was effectually preached and profoundly understood in Memphis in the 28th century and passed down through Mose. The viability of the thesis turns on my claim that the name given to Moses is not Semitic but Egyptian. It was also cause much historical and theological reevaluation. El and Ptah have returned. For you thought, Lloyd M. Barre, Ph.D. The Ptah Institute barre AT c-zone.net www.angelfire.com/ca2/AncientIsrael |
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'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh,
Lloyd Barre, 03/06/1999
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- Re: 'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, 03/08/1999
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