Posted on 04/22/2014 6:04:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Joseph and Potiphar
Immanuel Velikovsky
http://www.varchive.org/ce/joseph.htm
...to find out whether the personality of Joseph or the patron of the early stage of his career, Potiphar, is referred to in the historical documents, we have to look into those of the Middle Kingdom. The task appears simple. According to the Book of Genesis Potiphar was “an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard.” In the register of the private names to the Ancient Records of Egypt by James Breasted, we find the name Ptahwer.
Ptahwer was at the service of the Pharaoh Amenemhet III of the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. According to an inscription of Ptahwer at Sarbut el-Khadem in Sinai dated in the forty-fifth year of Amenemhet III, his office was that of “master of the double cabinet, chief of the treasury.” ...
Since there is only one Ptahwer in the historical documents, and since he lived in the time when we expect to find him, we are probably not wrong in identifying the biblical Potiphar with the historical Ptahwer...
Since a great famine took place in the days of Joseph, it is, of course, important to trace such a famine in the age of which we speak. In the days of Amenemhet III there occurred in Egypt a famine enduring nine long years...
...the Pharaoh in whose days was the seven years’ famine was the successor of the Pharaoh in whose days began the rise of Joseph’s career (if Yatu is Joseph). Potiphar, who lived under Amenemhet III, probably lived also under his successor.
The inscription which deals with Ptahwer mentions a man whose name is transliterated by Breasted as Y-t-w. Among the monuments of Amenemhet III’s reign is one of the Storekeeper who was honored together with two other persons... If we remember that according to the Scriptural narrative Joseph was appointed storekeeper of the State (Gen. 41:40-41) in anticipation of the seven lean years, with the powers of a chief Minister of State or Vice-King, we may suspect in Yatu the Biblical Joseph. In the Scriptures it is said that his name was changed by Pharaoh to Zaphnath-paaneah [possibly “he who is called Paaneah”], but still his original name may have been in use until he became next to the Pharaoh in importance.
The inscription that mentions Ptahwer refers to his activity in the mines of the Sinai peninsula. In this respect it is of interest to find that the Jewish traditions connect Joseph with the area of the Sinai Peninsula saying that he kept a large quantity of treasuries near Baal Zaphon, the scene of the Passage of the Sea.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1169550/posts?page=116#116
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2197015/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/725672/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/714636/posts
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Bumping for later, thanks!
And now for something completely different:
5 Ancient Black Civilizations That Were Not in Africa
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/04/16/5-ancient-black-civilizations-africa/
Bahr Yusef Canal (Waterway of Joseph or Yusuf (pbuh))
http://wikimapia.org/4073622/Bahr-Yusef-Canal-Waterway-of-Joseph-or-Yusuf-pbuh
> Bietak unearthed evidence from artwork as early as 7000 B.C. that depicts the early people inhabiting Greece were of African descent.
AFAIK, that’s complete nuttery.
I’ve heard that Thutmose III (reigned 1479 -1425 BC) was the Pharoah of the Exodus.
Maatkare Hatshepsut (reigned 1479-1458 BC) then was the girl who pulled Moses out of the river.
Ya think?
Thanks scrabblehack. Thutmose III was the Biblical Shishak, Hatshepsut the Queen of Sheba; by their time Moses had been dead for centuries.
http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm
44. A preliminary expedition dispatched by Hatshepsu[t] to prepare the way for the main expedition, was met by Peruha, the biblical Paruah, governor of Ezion-Geber.
45. The correction of the verses I Kings 4, 16-17 which place Aloth in the domain of the son of Paruah, is well founded.
http://shishak-amaic.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-identification-of-karnak-treasures.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6d1UfZjbod4/UDWyaNR2_0I/AAAAAAAAGvY/SjjdVikyOIw/s1600/Karnak01.jpg
I don’t understand any of it.
:’) Bietak’s digs have been in Egypt; Beitak’s main claim to fame has been his alleged find of the Hyksos capital, Avaris (I think he’s merely found one of their cities, they ruled for centuries), in which he’s found Minoan art; and I’ve never, ever heard of any wall art from 7000 BC ever having been found in Greece by anyone.
Did Unemployed Minoan Artists Land Jobs in Ancient Egypt?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2422780/posts
Minoan Frescoes at Tel Kabri: Aegean Art in Bronze Age Israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3045685/posts
Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2383594/posts
German Scientists: Europe’s Oldest Script Found In Bulgaria (Minoan)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1406648/posts
East Bulgaria Reveals Minoan Pertainence
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1326899/posts
Minoan civilization was made in Europe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3019397/posts
DNA Sheds Light On Minoans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1996686/posts
Unprecedented mathematical knowledge found in (Minoan) Bronze Age wall paintings
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1588411/posts
I had to edit out about 200 words from the page, and one of the castaways included reference to the author’s reliance on Edgar Cayce for some illumination of the problems. Needless to say, Neither Moses, nor Aaron, nor Joshua was ever pharaoh of Egypt. Moses gave it the old college try when he was young, but that’s it.
Thanks for that link, there are a lot of laughs in there.
> Many scholars have concluded that the founders of the first Mesopotamian civilization were Black Sumerians.
There are zero scholars who think that — there may be some dilettantes and agitprop spreaders who claim to. The Sumerians referred to themselves as “the black-headed people”, an obvious reference to their hair, which was jet black rather than the browns and sandys they encountered when they arrived in what became Sumeria. Their language was agglutinative and has no known relatives living or dead. In their art, no evidence at all of African origin.
It reminds me of the propaganda of a wacko “religious” group here in Michigan years ago, called “The Black Hebrew Israelite Jews” (just to be on the safe side, they threw ‘em all in there). The basis for the claim that the “real” Jews were black African? When Moses stretched out his hand (I think at the spring, when everyone was out of water) his hand turned “white as snow”. I just looked at my hands, and they aren’t white as snow either. ;’)
Thanks for the post SunkinCiv. I am reading the entire Bible this year and am right in the middle of the Old Testament right now. Fascinating!
I think that’s close, but i think it was his son Amenhotep II,
Hatshepsut may be correct,
The timing for the Exodus (I believe) was approx 1448 BC,
My pleasure!
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