First Person: A Name in Search of a Story [Shiphrah in 13th dynasty Egypt]

To: alexander_busek; SunkenCiv

***Shiphrah, of course, is the name of one of the Hebrew midwives***

Is it possible that Madam Shiphrah is an ancestor of Adam Schiff?

21 posted on 12/26/2019 10:57:31 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)

I think Schiff is a homoculus.

22 posted on 12/26/2019 11:13:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

***I think Schiff is a homoculus***

I suspect you mean Homunculus - a diminutive {ape-like?} human.
Note the large eye sockets...

23 posted on 12/26/2019 11:36:11 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)

Ooops. I guess I also just implied by accident that he was a fairy. Wish I’d done that on purpose.

24 posted on 12/26/2019 12:06:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

***I guess I also just implied by accident that he was a fairy***

Yikes! Sorry about that... brain stuck in 1st gear today. Still, I thought the large eye sockets contributed... perhaps picturing an evil fairy.

25 posted on 12/26/2019 2:11:17 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)

Since the name Shiphrah occurs on a papyrus dated to the expected time of the Biblical Shiphrah, it is highly unlikely that there was another of that same name at the same time...........

Yes, especially since they used the exact, same spelling... right?

Oh, wait - What's that you say? The Egyptians used hieroglyphics, and the Hebrews didn't?

Oh, wait - What's that you say? Neither writing system represented vowels? So, this is like comparing "Mike" written with Latin letters, and "Mike" written in the Cyrillic alphabet?

This article employs the very-familiar "Straw Man" tactic to allegedly "debunk" archeological science: First, claim that archeology (or biochemistry, or astronomy, etc.) had previously held it as an article of faith that something was totally impossible - and then assert that this latest discovery is precisely that impossibility. The typical layman, after all, won't know the difference. The authors of such articles typically attempt to force the authorities they are interviewing into making some statement like, "At present, we cannot explain this new finding" - as though the authorities were "dumbfounded," and the whole "House of Cards" of the scientific method were to have thus been blasted to smithereens.

Regards,

26 posted on 12/27/2019 12:24:12 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)

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