Posted on 12/25/2019 11:51:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The tip came from a lawyer, a faithful reader from Brooklyn named Harvey Herbert- An Egyptian hieroglyphic papyrus now in the Brooklyn Museum mentions an Asiatic slave named Shiphrah.
Shiphrah, of course, is the name of one of the Hebrew midwives (the other is Puah) whom Pharaoh summoned to carry out his order that all boys born to the enslaved Israelites be killed (Exodus 1-15)...
And here was an Asiatic slave with this same name mentioned in an Egyptian papyrus written in hieroglyphics...
All I can do is report what to some (surely, to me) are previously unknown facts that have nevertheless been known to scholars for a long time --
- The papyrus was purchased by an American journalist and Egyptologist named Charles Wilbour.. On Wilbour's death the papyrus was placed in a trunk and languished there until it was given to the Brooklyn Museum in 1935... It has been dated to about 1740 B.C.
- The back side of the papyrus contains a long list of slaves who are to become the property of the new owner's wife. Each is identified as Egyptian or Asiatic. The Asiatic slaves, unlike the Egyptian slaves, almost all have Northwest Semitic names -- nearly 30 of them. Among them is a female slave named Shiphrah.
- ...Another, according to Albright, has a name that is the feminine form of Issachar... Another is the feminine form of Asher.. Still other... names are related to the Hebrew names Menahem and Job.
- Based on the date of the papyrus, Albright comments that "we should expect significant points of contact with Israelite tradition ... Virtually all the tribal names of the House of Jacob go back to early times."
(Excerpt) Read more at cojs.org ...
Is it possible that Madam Shiphrah is an ancestor of Adam Schiff?
I think Schiff is a homoculus.
I suspect you mean Homunculus - a diminutive {ape-like?} human.
Note the large eye sockets...
Ooops. I guess I also just implied by accident that he was a fairy. Wish I’d done that on purpose.
Yikes! Sorry about that... brain stuck in 1st gear today. Still, I thought the large eye sockets contributed... perhaps picturing an evil fairy.
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,
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