Biblical Hebrew Forum

[JimStinehart AT aol.com]

Yitzhak Sapir:
 
You quote Donald Redford as follows:
 
“During the New Kingdom, however, the official oath formula used by the 
courts
 did not employ "Pharaoh", but rather "king" (nsw), "the ruler" (p3 hqS), 
or "lord" (nb), and usually ran as follows: ‘as surely as Amun endures, and 
as the king endures’."
 
But not in the Amarna Age!  The “normal” Egyptian nomenclature that 
Redford references would have been grotesquely out of place in the Amarna 
Age, 
when for a brief period of time the Egyptian god Amen was out of fashion at 
court, big time.
 
Note that there is not a whiff of any mention whatsoever of Amun or Amen in 
the Patriarchal narratives.
 
If the Patriarchal Age were any time other than the Amarna Age, one wonders 
why there is a complete and total absence of any reference whatsoever to 
Amen in the Patriarchal narratives.
 
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois