Posted on 04/08/2005 4:21:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"This idea suffered a blow in 1987 when Danish scientists studying cores from the Greenland icecap reported evidence that Thera exploded in 1645 B.C., some 150 years before the usual date. That put so much time between the natural disaster and the Minoan decline that the linkage came to be widely doubted, seeming far-fetched at best."
EXACTLY!
That would be in the Reversed Standard Version.
:-)
Chinatown had an great premise for a film noir, but I thought it was done pretty poorly. I am a fan of noir, but I was very disappointed in that film.
"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy."
Will Moses and Nefertiti ride off into the sunset in their Chariots of Fire?
Nefertari was chief and beloved wife of Ramses II. He lived a long time, and she died long before him. He had of course other wives and consorts, and they spit out babies like vending machines for him.
Nefertiti was chief wife of Akhenaton, but may have had some childbearing problems. She died before him, although there's an anachronistic revisionist need to make her into one of his successors, ruling as a male pharaoh. The "evidence" for this is flimsy at best.
There has also been a drive on to make Moses and the Exodus contemporary with the Amarna period, when Egypt was weak. Some have even claimed that the pharaoh and Moses were one and the same. By that reckoning Moses and the Israelites had to hustle their bustles into Canaan after Egypt lost effective control (the gradual loss is documented in the Amarna letters) but before various other powers gained control. Obviously this leaves very little time for everything to unfold.
But Hollywood saddles on anything where Biblical figures can be lampooned and degraded into adulterous, fornicating wretches.
[Hey, nice soapbox under 'Civ!]
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Yes, it means "of the Nile" or "born of the Nile". Sometimes also rendered as "mosis" or "meses". It's like the term "ben" in Hebrew, e.g. David ben Gurion. For pharaohs the usage and interpretation would be Thutmosis (Thoth born of the Nile), or Ramses (Ra moses, "lose the o" - Ra born of the Nile). Fascinating stuff.
Yeah, and her name was NefritiRi - not Nefrititi. Unless, Heston wasn't wearing his glasses when he read the script....
Yes I know. :-)
uh.... first I've heard of it in ... 33 years of my life since I started Bible learning.
I see your point, except for "Chariots of Fire," which won "Best Picture" at the Oscars.
He also produced "Jesus," filmed on location in Israel in Biblical settings and subsequently translated in more than 850 languages.
How many identifiable languages have been spoken since time began?
The real question here...is who plays Moses and Nefertiti?
I think Madonna ought to play Nefertiti. And as for Moses...I'd like to see Pauly Shore. To be honest...I just want to see Pauly score with Madonna...but this could easily take in $2 or $3 million if they market it right. I can see the advertisment right now...Moses, stud by the Red Sea.
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