Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ishinan" <ishinan AT comcast.net>]

"Further, we have in the language and literature of Hebrew that Jeremiah mentioned a brick kiln next to the king’s palace in Egypt. That it should be standing next to the palace indicates its importance, its value to the king. Therefore that brick kiln was connected to the king or may be to his father as it was not yet torn down.

Archeology has found that only one Egyptian king before the Greco-Roman period used kiln fired bricks, and that was Raamsis II. Tying that with the record found in Hebrew language and literature, therefore Raamsis II = Necho. And the Sea Peoples’ invasions are dated to his and his son’s reigns."

 

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Ishinan: in Ancient Egypt, the technique of brick made in updraft kilns goes back to the 5th Dynasty Old kingdom (ca. 2465 - 2323 BC). Examples were commonly depicted in tomb scenes such as the case of the mastaba of Ty located at the nothern edge of the Saqqara necropolis. (see Épron et al. 1939: pl.71). The technique has survived in present-day Egyptian kilns.

 

 

Ishinan Ishibashi