Grumbling, as I had an excellent writeup of Pharaoh analysis that vanished into cyberspace. Will need to wait. I now believe Apophis, 15th dynasty, is the pharaoh of the exodus, with cartloads of evidence.
Yes, Yahweh was a worldwide cult predating the Jews by thousands of years. You won't find that out by splitting the text into JEDPR though; but even as a fundamentalist I can work within those terms. It wasn't trying to get the story consistent, it was people sowing doubt on a consistent story by deliberately misinterpreting it to avoid its implications. To the fundamentalist, Ex. 12:41 and Gal. 3:17 prove that Gen. 15 is the anniversary event, and Abram was working from earlier Hebrew and Chaldean tradition.
Isis and Osiris-Seth-Baal are important, and go back to Inanna and Dumuzid, and I was just discovering the importance of Seth-Baal to Pharaoh Apophis. But when did they become associated with a spring festival? That's the catch. Perhaps on the Egyptian side (my evidence suggests) Seth was seen as responsible for the exodus chaos and thus was the origin of the king's practice in taking an Ishtar-Inanna priestess in spring as protection against a similar chaos in the first full moon of spring? This new data would require deeper review of Kramer.
I have a little separate data on the Yah and El names, suggesting that the Sethite line deliberately chose names afterward to contravene negative messaging from the Cainite line. Thus would also explain why the name Israel was given much later than Ishmael was, as it needed a generation for the connection to be recognized as a responsive improvement rather than a duality. There's no independence to Yam, as it always derives from Yah. And there's no time when Yah and El were ever separate or ever became merged; it was only liberal criticism that attempted to unmerge them. Gen. 1 introduces a deity title El, and Gen. 2:4b repeats 1:1 but adds the name Yahweh as the scope changes, using that personal name with the title afterward, like a deliberate monolithic account rather than a hodgepodge.
So I'll probably need to rewrite the amazing study I just concluded today and post it tomorrow separately and link you. I really appreciate your inspiring me to get through it, I just don't have the text written now.
Grumbling, as I had an excellent writeup of Pharaoh analysis that vanished into cyberspace. Will need to wait. I now believe Apophis, 15th dynasty, is the pharaoh of the exodus, with cartloads of evidence.
Yes, Yahweh was a worldwide cult predating the Jews by thousands of years. You won't find that out by splitting the text into JEDPR though; but even as a fundamentalist I can work within those terms. It wasn't trying to get the story consistent, it was people sowing doubt on a consistent story by deliberately misinterpreting it to avoid its implications. To the fundamentalist, Ex. 12:41 and Gal. 3:17 prove that Gen. 15 is the anniversary event, and Abram was working from earlier Hebrew and Chaldean tradition.
Isis and Osiris-Seth-Baal are important, and go back to Inanna and Dumuzid, and I was just discovering the importance of Seth-Baal to Pharaoh Apophis. But when did they become associated with a spring festival? That's the catch. Perhaps on the Egyptian side (my evidence suggests) Seth was seen as responsible for the exodus chaos and thus was the origin of the king's practice in taking an Ishtar-Inanna priestess in spring as protection against a similar chaos in the first full moon of spring? This new data would require deeper review of Kramer.
I have a little separate data on the Yah and El names, suggesting that the Sethite line deliberately chose names afterward to contravene negative messaging from the Cainite line. Thus would also explain why the name Israel was given much later than Ishmael was, as it needed a generation for the connection to be recognized as a responsive improvement rather than a duality. There's no independence to Yam, as it always derives from Yah. And there's no time when Yah and El were ever separate or ever became merged; it was only liberal criticism that attempted to unmerge them. Gen. 1 introduces a deity title El, and Gen. 2:4b repeats 1:1 but adds the name Yahweh as the scope changes, using that personal name with the title afterward, like a deliberate monolithic account rather than a hodgepodge.
So I'll probably need to rewrite the amazing study I just concluded today and post it tomorrow separately and link you. I really appreciate your inspiring me to get through it, I just don't have the text written now.