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  • From: MarianneLuban AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hatshepsut's Inscription
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:37:13 EDT

In a message dated 8/26/2004 9:48:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
peterkirk AT qaya.org writes:


>
> >...
> >
> >"Beginning since the Aamu were in the midst of the Northland [Delta] [in]
> >Avaris, vagrants among them, toppling what had been made, they ruled in
> >the
>
> >absence of Re, not by divine command down to the time of my Majesty"
> >
> >H3 Dr definitely means "beginning since" and not "from the time", as
> some
> >scholars have put it--with prejudice. Even though "n rf m wDw nTr" is
> >clearly there, some have arbitrarily changed "rf" to "iri=f" [he does or
> did]
> >coming up with "and he did not act by divine decree" [meaning Re did not],
> which
> >makes no sense. "rf" is merely an emphatic, best left untranslated,
> >emphasizing the notion that there was no "wDw ntr" [best translated by the
> German
> >"Gottesgebot"] i.e., complete godlessness going on in that Delta right up
> to the
> >time of Hatshepsut. Then she goes on to say something to the effect that
> now she
> >is on the throne, the snake on her brow spitting fire at her enemies, she
> >has "banished the abomination of the gods"--meaning those Aamu. No doubt
> about
> >it--she claims the credit.
> >
> >
>
> Marianne, could this be understood as meaning that the Hyksos, by
> destroying the temples in the delta, made the whole area completely
> godless, and that (in her worldview) it remained godless, even after the
> Hyksos had left, because there were no temples there? Could "banished
> the abomination of the gods" mean not banishing remaining Aamu but
> banishing ungodliness by reestablishing temples?
>

Perhaps you had better ask that of a person in whose expertise you have
faith--like David Rohl. I have an idea no response of mine, giving any
opinion,
will satisfy you.




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