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  • From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • To: yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Redford's 1970 answer to Kitchen's 1998 point
  • Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:30:16 EST


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




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