Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Redford's 1970 answer to Kitchen's 1998 point
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:00:48 +0200
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."