Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Jim Stinehart wrote:

> 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.

In the Amarna age, the oath formula is "As Aten endures and as the
ruler endures."

Yitzhak Sapir