Posted on 04/08/2005 4:21:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
CAIRO (AFP) - A Hollywood flick on an alleged love affair between pharaonic Queen Nefertiti and the Biblical Prophet Moses is soon to begin shooting in Egypt, renowned British producer John Heyman has revealed to AFP.
"Nefertiti married perhaps one of the first monotheists in history and the film will tell their story, which logically enough should be set in Egypt" said Heyman on a brief visit to Cairo.
"One can find in the Old Testament that Moses and Nefertiti had a relationship," he added.
The movie will also deal "with the return to the worship of the sun god," said Heyman.
He was referring to Aten -- the radiant disk of the sun -- whose cult was briefly re-introduced by Pharaoh Akhenaten, the 10th king of the 18th Dynasty also known as the "heretic king" for breaking with traditional religion in the 1350s BC.
The cult of Aten is considered by some experts to be a predecessor of modern monotheism.
Scholars generally agree that Nefertiti, often referred to in history as the "most beautiful woman in the world", was Akhenaten's wife.
But few have argued that Akhenaten and Moses may have been the same man, although there is no consensus on their respective dates of birth and death.
Others contend that Ramses II, the third ruler of the 19th dynasty, was in fact Moses while Jews believe the pharaoh king is responsible for their exodus from Egypt.
And founding father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud ventured his belief in "Moses and Monotheism", published in 1939, that Moses was in fact an Egyptian follower of Aten that brought the monotheistic doctrine out of Egypt as Judaism when he led the Israelites away from slavery to freedom some 3,300 years ago.
Ahmed Osman, on whose 1990 book "Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus" the script of Heyman's next film is based, admitted that "my argument is controversial and not widespread among many Egyptologists."
"But I have collected evidence proving that Akhenaten and Moses are the same person, which so far nobody has been able to contest," said Egypt-born Osman who has lived in London for the past 20 years where he studied Egypt's ancient history.
"Egypt's history is greatly ignored by the film industry besides 'Cleopatra' and 'The Ten Commandments' and that's it," said Heyman, referring to the two epic Hollywood blockbusters released more than 40 years ago.
The shoot "will not start before 2006 and locations will be between studios and along the Nile in Upper Egypt," he added.
Although he said it was too early to talk about the cast, Heyman said he had met "several Egyptian actors who are very good and charming, warm and kind".
British director Hugh Hudson, the acclaimed director of "Chariots of Fire," will direct the movie.
Heyman, who produced or co-financed major films such as "Chinatown", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Marathon Man", is also known for creating the Genesis project -- a scholarly endeavor to put all the Hebrew and Christian scriptures on film.
He also produced "Jesus," filmed on location in Israel in Biblical settings and subsequently translated in more than 850 languages.
In no time was there a mass exodus of people from Eqypt.
'Do a Google search using "Cushite woman" and read some of the commentary on the Torah.'
According to Rashi, the foremost Torah commentator, the word "Cushite" was used to imply (opposite of) beautiful, as a protection against the evil eye. Apparently Rashi questions whether or not this woman was actually black.
The historical record of ancient Egypt is far from complete... your negative assertion is not provable from that record on way or the other.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence... especially when you are looking for an event that occured in a very short time in a very long history of which we have only a very skimpy and interpreted record of heiroglyphics painted on walls to record the accomplishments of the latest Pharoah. Not once do we find a report of the failures of the latest Pharoah. It is particularly difficult when later Pharoahs were known for re-using walls, claiming the victories of others as their own, and sometimes completely obliterating the histories of Pharoahs they did not like. There are quite a few Pharoahs of whom the only thing we know of their existence is the name.
Egyptologist and even Biblical Archaeologists have barely even begun sifting the few records we have of Pharoahs other than Ramses II because for so long it was accepted fact that Ramses the Great was the Pharoah of the Exodus despite the mountains of obvious evidence that was mistaken. It is obvious why they found no evidence of a mass exodus of Semitic slaves or even of the slaves themselves during Ramses II reign because they were simply not there in the period they were looking for them, having left long before during the reign of Thutmosis IV (or as some have it, Thutmosis III) during an earlier, entirely different dynasty.
I made the mistake of checking out the properties of the red x. Made me gag.
The Bible is a book of stories. It is not historical record. Yes please, what is your evidence?
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This has to be one of the dumbest things I've heard in recent times.
from changing Anne Baxter’s character from Nefertiti to Nefertiri
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LOL !!
Hollywood saddles on anything where Biblical figures can be lampooned and degraded into adulterous, fornicating wretches. -- #150Just an update to the ping message.
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