Isaiah 19:25
…”Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.’”
There is no period in Canaan archaeologically where Egypt wasn’t the de facto or direct Overlord of Canaan. The Living God epithet first appears with Abraham’s association with Canaan. So could “Egypt my people” mean just that? Could “Israel my inheritance” mean a vassal relationship?
Israel Museum in Jerusalem’s “Pharaoh in Canaan” artifact exhibit introduction:
“Pharaoh in Canaan tells the highly revelatory and previously untold story of the rich cross-cultural ties between Egypt and Canaan during the second millennium BCE. Most commonly known from the biblical narratives of Joseph and Moses in Egypt, this historical chapter took place during a time of great political flux in both regions, due to two central developments: settlement of the Canaanites in the eastern part of the Egyptian Delta during the Middle Bronze Age (circa 1800–1550 BCE); and the consequent period of Egyptian rule over Canaan that saw the establishment of an Egyptian military and administrative presence in Canaan during the Late Bronze Age (circa 1500–1150 BCE).
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My hypothesis and query begins first with the Canaanite/Levantine-origin deified kings in Avaris that I’ve mentioned in other poste, that ruled simultaneously with the Native Egyptian Pharaohs. Both claimed the deifying titulary of “The Living Horus.”
At least in the Amarna letters, the personal name of the deified ruler, his god, and even his religion were not to be used by vassals, and so the administrator of Jerusalem, Abdi-Hebba and many others address the deified king as the generic “My Lord,” My God,” and other honorifics.
(There is also this [biased] Armstrong article on the spiritual significance of Jerusalem to the Egyptians: ** you do not have permission to see this link **)
New epiphany: God *only* appears in a physical form to those with a claim to royalty in Egypt. Just three:
1. Hagar, a name meaning “stranger/foreigner”- the mishna says that she is revealed as Keturah the **Egyptian princess** once she is elevated to bride.
Genesis 16:13
She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me…”
2. Jacob, who the Deuteronomist says founded a “Great Nation” in Egypt.
Genesis 32:24-30: “‘I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.’”
3. Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince.
Exodus 33:11: “Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.”
Potential chronology I’ve constructed:
• 1805 BCE – Canaanite dynasty founded by Yakbim in Avaris, Egypt.
• 1750 BCE – Abraham in Ur, per Dr. Phillip Bohstrom:
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•c. 1700 BCE – Yaqub (name on his signet ring), the Avaris Hyksos king also known as Yaqub-El/Yaqub-Har/Yaak-Baal depending on region is notable for his abundance of scarabs in Canaan.
• c. 1550 BCE – Aamose remands the Hyksos to Canaan, which he controlled. At this same time, an abundancy of Egyptian artifacts begin to increase in Canaan:
Original Hypothesis: Aamose may be patrilineally Egyptian but of mixed ancestry, and this is the same Yah/Iah/Aah theophoric-bearing element.
• c. 1319 BCE – Moses’ Exodus begins?
Historical: The Semetic community around the temple that remained after the Hyksos expulsion leave in the post-Amarna period.
• 1320- BCE – Edict of Horemheb remands outlaws (which may include monothiests) to Tjaru and builds a series of forts continuing along the Southern Route in his Canaan campaigns, the same uncommon route that Moses takes. The 40 years in the wilderness could reflect the 40 years until Ramses the Great’s settlement of people in Canaan.
Horemheb creates a new system of “Judges”, who are to be militarized governors assigned a law interpretation role:
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• 1280- BCE – Israelites settle in Canaan?
Ramses the Great, who depicted himself as “Ba’al Saphon-El” in a stelae in the Sinai and “The Great God” on collossi in Beth Shean, begins direct control of Canaan. Per Dr. Albright, he commends the Asrielite tribe and Habiru warriors on a Beth Shean stele, which could lead to grazing land or even kingdom allocation.
Five of the cities that the Bible claimed Joshua conquered have a C-14 or artifact dating whose low chronology puts it in the Ramses the Great period, and most of the others are not identified. Hebron was potentially a complex of sites, and only one has received a partial excavation which shows it unoccupied for the period in question.
• 13th-12th C BCE – First Yah inscriptions in Canaan: ** you do not have permission to see this link **
Original Hypothesis: Yah with an Akkadianzed ‘Y’ is brought from Egypt, as the lunar god of shepherds.
This is the equivalent of the lunar god “Lord of Cowkeepers” Sin that Abraham’s family in Ur and Harran likely worshipped. Generally speaking, lunar gods were first associated with pastoralism because flocks were typically moved in the cool of night, while solar gods were first associated with settled agriculture.
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Yah is the theophoric element in Aamose and possibly Moses’ adoptive mother Bityah. Joshua has the earliest undisputed Yah theophoric in Canaan in the Hebrew Bble. His maternal lineage is unstated. There are no figures in the Hebrew Bible chosen for leadership in Canaan without a noble lineage afaik, yet Joshua’s father is not given any. An Egyptian maternal lineage like that of Keturah, Asenath, and the story of Genubath would support high placement. Other ethnicities with a’high-status’ maternal lineage would be unlikely from an origin in Egypt.
• 13th C BCE-1020? – Period of Judges in the Bronze Age collapse: ** you do not have permission to see this link **
Original Hypothesis: This is the Egyptian Judges system began by Horemheb, and brought to settled Canaan.
• c. 1020 BCE. Saul – Rise of multi-tribe kings.
• c. 1000 BCE – David. Large cache of Egyptian artifacts found in Judah: ** you do not have permission to see this link **
• c. 970 BCE – Solomon. Marries a (likely) Native Egyptian princess, and this is associated with grandeur.
• 925 BCE – Libyan Pharaoh Shishack sacks Jerusalem. Non-Native Egyptian pharaohs begin here, and pharaohs begin to be identified by name, and are not associated with grandeur.
• 850-840 BCE – Yehosophat and Yehoram alliance in Edom coinciding with the first four-letter YHWH inscription found so far, on the Meshe stele. The Meshe stele also contains a new syncretism, Ashtar-Chemosh, used alongside the original Chemoth, seemingly like Yah and Yahweh are tandemly used.
Original Hypothesis:
Yah the short-form name that appears after the ballpark period of the Exodus is formally syncretized with the desert protector deity as a titulary deity of the alliance of Israel and Judah to produce the four-letter Tetragrammaton. However, the association of hill pastoralists and desert may first be acknowledged as an “other category” versus civilization’s agriculturists in the Three Hills + Desert heiroglyphic for “Foreign Lands.” In the ballpark for the Patriarchal Age, the increasing syncretization could begin with the pastoral Amorites who founded the Seth temple of Avaris, Egypt. This makes it a possibility that the Abrahamic covenant is celebrated on the “400 Year Stele.”
Desert deity Ha replaces Seth in the sense that he is by the Ptolemaic age even inscribed as a protector against Seth, as Seth became unpopular due to his association with foreigners.
The possibility that Ha is syncretized in an age of Libyan pharoahs is interesting Ha is ‘anti-Libyan’.
Ha studies are fairly new.
• 722 BCE – Israel’s exile via Assyrians. Assyria resettles foreign groups around the capitol, Samaria, leading to a mixed lineage known as Samaritans.
• 630 BCE – Judah posited as an Egyptian “successor state”: ** you do not have permission to see this link **
The return of a Native Egyptian Pharaoh coincides with an increased adherence to Yahwism.
• 612 BCE – Judah’s exile via the neo-Babylonian dynasty whose final king is Nabonidus.
• 553-550 BCE – Edom’s exile via Nabonidus seems to be prophesied (planned?), as crimson garments are for Great Kings (multiple kingdom empire), and not those of singular kingdoms:
Isaiah 63:1-2
“Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength?”
• 516 BCE – Land claim of Judah restored via the Messiah Cyrus, and the cannon Hebrew Bible narrative ends exactly on this point.
“There is no period in Canaan archaeologically where Egypt wasn’t the de facto or direct Overlord of Canaan.”
I don’t think that is true. Ironically, one of the few times Egypt was overlord of Canaan was the time period when Moses supposedly led the Israelites out of Egypt into Canaan, which would have been under Egyptian rule.
the time period of David would have occurred in a rare time of real weakness in Egyptian power. When his grandson Rehoboam (if he existed) would have been raided by the Egyptian king of that time, but even that king, if I remember, was only the king of northern Egypt near the delta.
Thank you so much Focus for that AMAZING find, I will go look that 2 Kings Eliakim passage up! I also appreciate your response that I can address!
Yes, direct rule of Israel occurs during the Ramesside dynasty (and I put the settlement of the Exodus at its start), but tribal polities and single kingdoms only merited ***intermediaries***. Think Melchizedek. Civilization’s pecking order had already been established for millennia.
2250- BCE Egyptian Weni the Elder wrote prolifically on his military campaigns “disciplining” the the Levant through the Sinai – for example, detailing a skirmish at Mount Carmel.
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Weni generally held the proto-responsibilities that my candidate for Moses, Thutmose Viceroy of Kush and Overseer of Foreign Lands and Frontier Lands did (Viceroy of Kush being the most prestigious title):
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And again, c. 3,000 BCE Narmer’s name existed in what’s now Israel, with some scholars positing that it had been part of Greater Egypt at the tail of the African Humid Period.
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Pecking Order:
• Kings
Note that even tribal chiefs were called Kings. If directly appointed by empire, this title becomes like , “King’s Son of ___”, “Overseer of ___ Lands”, and Judges, “medjay.”
• Kings-of-Kings/Great Kings
Both formal titles of a multi-kingdom king. Think patrilineally Edomite/Idumean King Herod the **Great*** — he ruled Judaea, Samaria, Idumaea, and Galilee “of the Nations” —which was the bulk of Ituraea before he took that around 20 BCE, per Josephus.
God/Emperor:
Divine kingship — the first world’s first emperor is also the world’s first deified king, Sargon of Akkad c 2279- BCE. Herod the Great built threeeeeeeee temples in Galilee worshipping Rome’s deified emperor. Both were deified posthumously. The world’s first living deification occurs with Narram Sin, and here it seem to be about being a savior.
They all *also* call themselves just King or First Citizen, or whatever, just not to vassals. Again, c 1400- BCE Amenhotep III and c 1350s- Akhenaten are addressed as “My Lord” and “My God” by vassals in Canaan but “Brother” by equals.
We just don’t know if others were too, because we only have these records because they were left in the trash can.
This is a thing that stands out for me with Jesus, he follows all the correct protocol.
Woooooow, thank you.
2 Kings 23:34
“Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.”
Yes, name changes are customarily done of vassals. (I had to check, lol.)
Big points of interest:
1. Egypt was no longer regarded as an empire in Necho’s time — he wouldn’t be a god-king to vassals.
2. To go more granularly, my original hypothesis is that a god-king of Abraham’s descendants would have to have some West-Semetic lineage (like that of Abraham if Dr. Bohstrom is correct), starting with Yakbim, the Caananite-origin God-King in Egypt. This is why both Necho and Nebuchadnezzer wouldn’t qualify, but Akhenaten (with a Yaya grandfather and plentiful Asiatic DNA) “placing his name in Jerusalem” might: ** you do not have permission to see this link **
Could others have placing their names in Jerusalem too, seeing as God in the singular was simply a perennial term of address like “Governor”? Idk. We just don’t have their records because they weren’t in a trash can.
3. 2 Kings 23:27 (NIV):
“So the Lord said, ‘I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, “My Name shall be there.”’”
So, it’s obvious that “The Lord” who punishes Yehoiakim for the Egyptian and Babylonian alliances by “taking his name *from* Jerusalem” is not Necho.
4. In Kings, “the Lord said” has a different feeling than all the “God said” of Exodus. Empire not needed here.
It could be a priest channeling “the all that is” but imo it could be a Semetic nomarch as deification becomes more common?
5. There’s lots of evidence for the common practice of changing the theophoric element in vassal’s names, but it’s usually to a deity aligned with the dominating nation.
So it’s interesting that I think Yah is the Iah of Egypt using the Semetic Y-for-I swap. We first see a Yah in the Bible likely with Bityah, and more certainly when Hosea is chosen to be Yah-hosea, Joshua.
As I’ve wrote elsewhere, Yah theophoric elements then appear archaeologically in Israel beginning in the 13th C BCE.
6. Replacing the Canaanite region El with the traveling Yah (originally Egyptian?) or in Arabia, the practice of replacing El with Ashtar (originally Ishtar of Mesopotamia) puts “lineage above region” – a really important takeaway for me throughout the Hebrew Bible.
As for David, Pseusennes I is the greatest of Tanite god-kings, he may have lineage.
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And there’s all the Egyptian artifacts that show up in Judah right around this time: ** you do not have permission to see this link **.
Hegemon
Just want to add that Chat GPT describes the role of Egypt until the Assyrians under the catch-all ‘Hegemon”, and within that time, Overlord during most of the Ramesside dynasty. Why use many words when few do trick?
BIG find – the Biblical Exodus and the Amarna/Post-Amarna Period are a match with the rise of “Saves/Savior” theophoric names, like Hosea “Saves” becoming Joshua “Yah Saves”. Hosea on its own being a ‘hypercoristic theonym’ like the Hyksos King Yaqub’s signet ring. (The name Anglicized Jacob first appears archaeologically as Jacob-El in Mesopotamia, with a theophoric el, and so starts out not hypercoristic.)
It also matches how Josephus believed that Moses name contained “One Who Saves” appended to the Egyptian “Born of” theonym. So, there are *no* “Saves” theonyms in the Bible prior to the Exodus narrative. There’s “Hears” and “Helps” but no “Saves”.
Wiki’s plain language on Savior theonyms in Egypt:
The rise of “Savior” names in personal piety during the Amarna period has been interpreted as the popular response of ordinary people to the attempts by ** you do not have permission to see this link ** to proscribe the ancient religion of Egypt.
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Citing the Oxford Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology:
“The trauma of the Amarna period and its aftermath doubtless also contributed to the atmosphere of uncertainty that is evident in the following historical period. That uncertainty was illustrated by theophoric names, which contain the verb $d (“rescue,” “save”), names such as Shed-su-Amun (“may Amun save him”). Although sporadically met in earlier periods, such names were most frequently used in the New Kingdom (Ranke 1935, p. 330 f.). The letter of the scribe Butehamun to the captain of the bowmen Shed-su-Hor (“may Horus save him”) also reflected this phenomenon (Wente 1990, p. 196), as did the emergence of the god Shed, the personification of the concept of the rescuing activity of a deity demonstrated in the study of Hellmut Brunner…”
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The new deity Shed appears in the immediate Post-Amarna period, so this may be on Ay, not Akhenaten.
Ooh, nice find, Colin!
Exodus 5:23. The unfamiliar god to Pharaoh.
Ok, lets pretend this Exodus Pharaoh is Pharaoh Ay. (The rare Pharaoh who is not a god-king, by the way.)
Pharaoh Ay is first to reject monotheism. He disavows the Aten (the Ra + Horus syncretism officially known as Ra-Horarkhty). He returns Egypt to Amun-Ra worship as the supreme deity (just called Ra). He does so first by reigning in place for Tut, then his own brief reign.
Yah/Iah/Aah and Ha, my pick for the Tetragrammaton, are obscure deities. 🤷♀️ They are found all the way back in the Old Kingdom, but yeah. There’s no temples.
Iah is last seen in names, like Aamose. It’s just like Amorite disappears and then you still have the names. Ha is first introduced with Hatseput, but attached to the word “mystery” or “secret.”
Iah/Yah though reappears for a moment, right after this! Horemheb damnatios Pharaoh Ay. Then, it is Horemheb who erects a stelae to KHONSU-IAH. Syncretized. And from there on ever its just “Khonsu”.
Horemheb also rebuilds the Seth temple, the big desert storm god ruler of foreigners. Still in the general Avaris vicinity, though the Semetic community had fled. The temple was originally built for Baal in the 14th dynasty (the Amorite “Lord of the Mountain” one, read El Shaddai). Then its dedicated Seth Baal when Egyptized.
But a sword is Desert Protector Ha’s accoutrement. Nobody else is routinely pictured with one:
Exodus 5:3
Then they said, ‘The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.’”
Ha is Ruler of Foreign People, like Seth. And Habiru are most characterized by being *foreigners*.
Yah doesn’t get a syncretized name at this point, Seth Baal never gets that. Instead it’s just Seth if you’re in Egypt. And Baal if you’re in the Levant. Maybe its like Amun-Ra just being called Ra.
Also today’s research, I found that Elohim is never inscribed on any monument at all ever. My read for YHWH LHM is:
YHWH (Egyptized)
LHM (Canaan)
L: Supreme God El
H: Supreme Goddess (-h is the feminine suffix for goddesses)
M: Majestic Plural (specifically an Amorite -m plural suffix, not an Akkadian -u, or Egyptian -w.)
I think this word Elohim for God might be a gender-neutral term for a god that’s absorbed little polities (divine council), but I’m not sure. Because Atenism has iconography, it’s really easy to see they tried uniting the feminine and masculine into Akhenaten’s artwork. (When they DNA tested him, he’s a normal male.) I think the burning bush may do the same for the pastoral everyday people. Monotheism in its introduction requires symbols of syncretism.
The Hellenization of the Kingdom of Judah begins after Alexander the Great’s conquest of the region in 332 BCE. ‘Lhm goes back to the Ugaritic texts ~ 13th-12th C BCE. The existence of the word ‘Lhm that we now say as Elohim precedes the introduction of koine Greek by about a millenium.
So, some scholars have noted that Elohim in Hebrew can take both masculine and feminine verb agreements in rare cases.
Some Ugaritic deities have divine epithets that use grammatically mixed gender markers. Some Ugaritic deities are addressed with *both* masculine and feminine epithets. Sometimes Ugaritic texts use both ‘il and ‘ilhm in close proximity, suggesting that they weren’t simply interchangeable, but scholars aren’t in agreement on why.
In Mesopotamia and Arabia, Ishtar/Inanna could be both a goddess and a god.
In Revelation 22:16 – Jesus says “I am the bright morning star”.
Well, hmm, guess what new supreme deity replaces El in Arabia in the BCE times? The bright morning star ‘Attar ** you do not have permission to see this link **
The male version of Ishtar.
Jesus promises to give “the bright morning star” to those who persevere – it’s the signifier of royalty.
In Isaiah 14:12, “bright morning star” is used to describe the fallen *male* king.
And in pre-Islamic Arabia, El the God’s feminine counterpart is Allat, “The Goddess.”
•The -t is the more ancient feminine suffix. The switch to -h is the newer feminine suffix. In the Bible they are both used:
New -h feminine suffix:
Malkah (Queen)
Gebirah (Lady/Queen Mother)
When you pluralize the older version, you get -ot. So you *should* get -oh with the new feminine suffix, but there’s already a vowel shift too, and maybe that’s how you get the a in shekinah? I don’t know there.
Elohim could be a universal deity. Containing both male and female aspects, and if so, proof should be finding it applied to female or mixed gender deities.
This seems to qualify:
Psalm 82:1
“God (Elohim) stands in the divine assembly; among the gods (Elohim) he gives judgment.”
In the ancient Near Eastern, divine councils often included a mix of gods with both male and female aspects.
Edit addition:
Some of todays huge finds!
The -t suffix is standard for feminizing a noun in Ugaritic, and the -h feminizing suffix is special to female divinities that are placed above other divinities: Anat-h. Athirat-h.
It’s virtually an identical use in Biblical Hebrew. In Biblical Hebrew, the -t suffix is standard for feminizing a noun, while the -h suffix appears in titles that highlight’s a feminine noun’s elevated position, like Shekinah or Malkah.
Athirath is Asherah in the Bible. In the Ugaritic Divine Council, she is the Supreme Goddess consort to Supreme God El, and they are in the top heirarchy of decision-making.
And in the first Divine Council, in Sumerian literature, there’s a female deity Ninhursag in the “Lament for Ur.”
To conclude, you have the 8th-7th C BCE authors/redactors of the Bible using what is an originally 13th-12th C Ugarit word for a group of both male and female deities and then applying it to their area and time period in mostly masculine verb agreements.
In a physics-based investigation into who could be the “Lord God” — if we choose to believe that the Bible authors weren’t just hearing voices—there simply aren’t any female-identifying God-kings in Egypt.
Even when there’s a female Pharaoh like Hatseput, she switches to presenting a masculine identity upon gaining her position.
ELOHIM MAY BE A WORD LIKE DEITY
That unlike the gendered words “god” and “goddess,” can be used for both genders, if necessary. It’s just not usually necessary. If the Creator Deity of Genesis is Ea/Hayyi, that’s male, and the Living God of Egypt always presents male.
Today’s summary will focus on ISRAELITES.
But first, come on you guys. Jacob wrestles with God who is repeatedly described as a man — the God-kings of Egypt are trained in wrestling as an art lmao. Those joint dislocation poses are on their stelae.
Jacob asks for his blessing.
A blessing only means *one thing* in Egyptian protocol – a god-king’s blessing to a potential vassal, such as a prince, was a formal act that established a relationship of loyalty and subordination.
Ok. ISRAELITES
Dr. Avram Faust, archaeologist
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“It appears that while many individuals, families, and groups were involved in the process of Israel’s ethnogenesis throughout the Iron Age, and that many of those who eventually became Israelites were of Canaanite origins, the first group was composed mainly of Shasu pastoralists. Other groups, probably including a small “Exodus” group that left EGYPT (my emphasis), probably joined the process…”
Well, with the 14th Dynasty god-kings of Avaris, Egypt, Dr. Bietak says they may, “for convenience sake may be called Canaanites.” Repeat, the 15th dynasty of God-Kings in Avaris, Egypt IS Canaanite. Semetic names.
Canaan was Egyptized at least since Narmer, c. 3000 BCE. The alphabet’s based on Heiroglyphics, lol. There is so *much* Egyptization that the distinction then, between the earliest Israelites and Canaanites has to be the *degree* of Egyptization. May I present to you, then:
ISRAELITES GOING THE EXTRA MILE ON EGYPTIZATION
1. Circumcision. Uniquely Egyptian origin.
2. Grain from Egypt. You don’t go and buy grain from Pharaoh or God (like an Avaris God-King), that’s a *vassal* exchange.
Archaeologically, early Israelite shepherds have sooooo much grain they are storing them in MUD-BRICK, miskom. Where you getting that grain from, early Israelite?
3. Two-Loaf Ritual. It’s right on Akhenaten’s stelae, where his servant is offering it to him, the Egyptian God-King.
4. Proto-monotheism (the Semetic Hyksos Shesi reportedly first starts a type of proto-monotheism, then Akhenaten—Mr. No-or-Low African DNA associated with being an ethnic Egyptian—revives it.)
5. Aniconism. It’s a late-stage Atenism development..
6. Ark of the Covenant (closest to Akhenaten’s dad’s furniture.)
7. Tabernacle (closest to Ramses II’s military tent and a Midianite tent, but there’s a paucity of surviving tents).
8. Hebrew being MORE Egyptized than other Canaanite languages:
• i for y swap
• replacement of u with w
• simplification of words, as is the Egyptian preference
•Egyptian loan words, use of which significantly increases in Exodus.
9. epithets like the Living [insert God Name Here] (to be precise, the first text calling someone a Living God starts at Ebla where they call Enki, Hayya meaning “The Living” [God].
10. Lord of Armies is a Generallisimo, what other polity related to Canaan has one? What other polity related to Canaan has Lord and God in one title of address?
10. Advanced copper smelting found in early Israel is a total rip of Sinai techniques
11. White Linen priests and Essenes, the first to wear white linen are Egyptian priests afaik.
12. The Judges system of military rulers for remoter areas was established by Horemheb.
13. Pigs being unclean.
14. Two-god syncretization to create a titulary deity uniting two kingdoms or regions is unique to Egypt. Imo, after a full millennia of Egyptian hegemony ( -1750 BCe until the Assyrian take-over 700-something BCE), a titulary deity representing “shepherd foreigners” would be a likely avenue of exploration for the new full four-letter Tetragrammaton Yahweh. Because you know, Israelites sojourned from where? Egypt?
The Bible is Abraham’s family diary.
1. Leaving MESOPOTAMIA to serve the 14th Dynasty AMORITE god-kings of EGYPT, with titulary the Rulers of Retinu, meaning Syrio-Canaanites.
Hey, look Abraham lives and allies with Amorites:
Genesis 14:13
“Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.”
Amorite friends! Amorite Avaris had an oak grove. Acorns falling all over the altars.
You know the Genesis 15:18 promise of land? It happens to match the 18th C BCE extent of the Amorites.
(Oh, and having broken with Mesopotamia, we now disavow uniquely Mesopotamian things, like astral worship and teraphim).
2. Abraham’s descendants like Joseph and Jacob leave Canaan for Egypt. Dr. Bietak says that the 15th Dynasty of Avaris god-kings are for convenience sake, CANAANITE. King Jacob had many scarabs in Canaan. What’s the difference between Canaanites and Israelites, in Egypt? A little Mesopotamianization, and this likely includes Ebla.
Story pauses, and coincidentally, historically the Last Semetic Community in Avaris is expelled in the post-Amarna period.
(In this new administration, we now disavow the old administrations—we now hate Amorite and Canaanite things. Historically, this is ANOTHER era where there’s multiple Egyptian Kings claiming concurrent reign, just retroactively. Damnatio memorae keeping the name off the tongue there for Manetho. Being in Egypt was bad, soooooo glad we got expelled.
3. ASSYRIAN rulership is next. (We can now hate the last administration, Egyptian rulers by name. Per the rules, vassals can’t name names of empire-level God-kings.)
4. BABYLONIAN rulership is next.)
(Now we hate Assyrians. It’s ok, we still hate every administration before—Egyptians, Amorites, Canaanites, and 2nd millenium BCE Mesopotamian stuff.)
5. PERSIAN Administration next.
This is the great messiah Cyrus, and that’s the last sentence in the Hebrew Bible.
(Oh wait, Book of Daniel hauls ass back in time to hate on Babylonian things.)
6. Next up, the SELEUCIDS.(Zecharaiah has mild complaints about Persian administration, and that’s about it.)
7. MACCABEES Administration.
(Ooh, now we can hate on the Seleucids in Bible texts.)
8. ROMAN rule.
(Gospels: Now we are free to dunk on the last-administration Maccabee heiress Herodias. She doesn’t sound too nice. Herod the Great’s kingdom’s has fallen into tetrarchies- now he is dunked on and outwitted so hard.
The “Liar” ie Diabolus or whatever,, is probably the Herod Antipas-aligned Emperor or the Emperor’s agent offering kingdoms to Jesus. (Because you know, we live in a physics-based world where it’s only people like emperors that can offer multiple kingdoms.)
These same kingdoms that could be viewed from this vantage point are historically given to Agrippa.
10. JESUS’ “rule”.
Spiritually sure, but maybe also like from Edessa, Osroene to Petra and Bostra?
All hail Jesus!
Regnal name at birth: Immanuel (think Solomon’s having a regnal name at birth, Jedediah. Or the “secret name” given in Revelation. Or the “secret name” at birth tradition of Egyptian elites.)
Hypocoristic name miiiight be Manu, not sure on that. A possible deified namesake Manistusu also has his name broken with an ancient type of hyphen at ‘Man’, and the -u is a majestic suffix. Mandaean doesn’t correspond to any linguistic etymology for knowledge (Gnosis), but a construction of ‘Man-d-aean’ being, “people belonging to Manu.” would be very ordinary.
Name at ascension might be King Malichus II. Not sure on that either. The weight of evidence includes:
• Petra takes in masses of Jewish refugees.
• An Edessa-linked matriarch Queen Helene of Adiabene was supposedly supplying cash for famine relief in Palestine, during the time described in in Acts. Now it’s about buying grain from Egypt, instead of being vassal-gifted grain/manna (pearled barley imo) by the Lord God.
• Edessa is also hypothesized to be the first to take in Mandaean refugees.
(Because we have a theme of We Love The New Administration and Hate The Old One” in Jesus’ administration and the New Testament it might be time to hate the Romans, but don’t name names *cough* Nero.)
11. Next-Next Administration — Now it’s Mandaeans that don’t like some things Jesus did, but feel very grateful to Artabanus, the ruler of the new administration that they travel to that takes them in. I don’t even know of a way to return to the ancient Nasoriyah region from Jerusalem without physically going through the Nabataean kingdom.
EDIT BIG FIND!
So GOD, Elohim, never speaks or proclamates directly in the Bible after the Egyptian god-king period. After the Assyrians show up chronologically, you get Lord (king), and that’s it.
*****And importantly, it’s just GOD with no Lord title for the Creation myths in Genesis*******
Ea’s Myths:
• mankind’s creation from dust in his anthropomorphic image
• forbidden plant
• flood warning
• separating the waters to make Earth or whatever
• giving the heirarchy of the world, man having dominion over animals
•Ea’s city is where mankind originates – the Sumerian myth and the archaeological record so far, is that the “world’s first city” is the arid Eridu with its unusually abundant and perhaps misty springs making effortless “hydroponic” agricultural gains.
Why no Lord God, and just God for Ea, the Creator of Material Existence? Because there’s no god-king vassalage. No COVENANT. No contract, hence, no Lord title.
(Why Ea at all? Ea gets very popular in Ebla via Nasiriyah waterfolk, and one scholar proposes Ea becomes their supreme deity, Hayyi.)
***** It’s Lord (Ruler) GOD once vassalship has been established with the God-kings in Egypt.*****
*****It’s Lord God of Armies***** for the military dynasty post-Amarna period.***
******And then Lord GOD disappears*****
the *moment* that the Assyrians remove the Egyptian Empire. Now it’s just Lord. No one hears or sees God anymore.
You still have a Pharaoh (Necho) but he no longer fits a very basic requirement of a manifested God – having an Empire. Your vassals need vassals to be an Emperor. Judah does not have for this period. Necho is a King over Judah’s King, and that’s just a King of Kings.
Even the Lord (not the same totle as Lord God) gets distant in this later Biblical period, and sends his angels or prophets.
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