The Brazen Serpent
If Moses and Akhenaten are the same person and Moses did not lead the Israelites in their Exodus from Egypt until a quarter of a century later, it follows that he must have survived the threat of revolution and possible assassination that caused him to abdicate and flee to the safety of Sinai. However, this has been the subject of as much scholarly debate as whether or not he shared a co-regency with his father, Amenhotep III. The tomb prepared for Akhenaten, with the doorway facing roughly...
Joseph The Patriarch
After studying the Bible and Egyptian history for a quarter of a century in the hope of establishing a link between a major biblical and historical figure, I shared the general view, which held that Yuya, a non-Egyptian, was not of any special importance. It was only in what in retrospect seems a moment of inspiration that I changed my view. It happened one night when, unable to sleep, I made myself a pot of tea and sat down to read, as I often did, the Old Testament. The claim by Joseph the...
The Sacrificial Victim
The two paths we have followed until now the documentary evidence on the one, back through the centuries from the start of the Christian era, the Egyptian historical evidence on the other, down through the centuries have both brought us to the same point in history, the fourteenth century B.C. This was the time of Moses receiving the Lord's commandments and appointing Joshua to be his successor, on the one hand, and Akhenaten leading the Amarna religious revolution and appointing Tutankhamun to...
Theearlestchristians
Nearly all Christians nowadays Roman Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox share three basic premises. They accept the canon of the New Testament, the apostolic Creed and a Church with an institutional, hierarchical structure. It was only toward the end of the second century A.D. that these three aspects of Christian belief and observance emerged in this form. The purpose of the first two sections of this book was to demonstrate not simply on the basis of historical evidence but on the witness of...
The Wisdom Of Solomon
The task of identifying the historical Solomon is complicated not only by the biblical red herrings we have already looked at, but by the fact that we have no historical record of a king of that name. It is only when we match in detail the Old Testament account of his exploits with the reign of Amenhotep III that it becomes clear we are dealing with the same person. The actual name Solomon derives from the Semitic word salaam and means safety or peace. Other than a minor military operation in...
Tellelamarna
At Amarna the cliffs of the high desert recede from the river, leaving a great semicircle about eight miles long and three miles broad. The bright yellow sand slopes gently down to the river. Huge boundary stelae, marking the limits of the city and recording the story of its foundation, were carved in the surrounding cliffs. one of them, stressing that Akhenaten Moses looked upon Aten as his father, read I shall make Akhetaten Amarna for Aten my father in this place . . . Akhetaten extends from...
The One God And His Prophet
Scholars generally accept that Akhenaten Moses was in his teens when he made his first appearance at Thebes in 1378 B.C. This dating agrees with his having been born at Zarw in 1394 B.C. At the time he arrived in Thebes he was still known by the name he had been given at birth, Amenhotep. We know very little of his early life. There is no evidence that during his childhood he spent any time at Memphis, where his father, Amenhotep III, had his main residence and where the heirs apparent were...
Ahmed Osman
In Christianity An Ancient Egyptian Religion author Ahmed Osman contends that the roots of Christian belief spring not from Judaea but from Egypt. He compares the chronology of the Old Testament and its factual content with ancient Egyptian records to show that the major characters of the Hebrew scriptures including Solomon, David, Moses, and Joshua are based on Egyptian historical figures. He further suggests that not only were these personalities and the stories associated with them...