Dear List:
Even intuively it is apparent that this divine name is not Semitic. God is described on a reveling in the verb, "to be[come]" (Egyptian: xeper). It is a religion of ontology whose only source into Israelite tradition could have been Egypt.
"I am Becoming what I am Becoming" would be the sense of the name. If we know Moses' full name, it may well have been Ptah-mose.
Egyptian ontology lived on in the Levites, those thinkers like Ptah-mose who argued with his royal sibling Rameses II that the treatment of the Hebrew slaves did not conform to Maat, the immanent moral characteristic of Becoming. According, Ptah-mose and his followers offered to take the Hebrews home and leave with them as Moses.
The thought-word-creation of an ontological concept of God extends to the Johannine community and then to the Doctrine of the Trinity. Accordingly, ontological thought originated with Ptah, passed through Israelite history to its most eloquent _expression_ with the Levitical Priestly Writer, whose theology allowed him to absorb El and Yahweh, and to the Community of the Beloved.
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