[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Cool stuff!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Ping

[Buckeye McFrog]

Coat of Many Colors had a hole in the pocket?

[sr4402]

Super Cool. Any Better Pictures of the Coins? Especially Joseph and the one with the Cows?

[muawiyah]

So, this was all supposed to be mere representational imagery about broad classes of people, or Hebrew tribes.

Now we find the representational imagery struck coins and spelled his name in two languages.

Hmmmm ~ sounds like at least one of the Patriarchs was a real flesh and blood man.

[Kenny Bunk]

Hey wait a minute.

Q'uran (please note my attempt at politically correct and sensitive spelling) wasn't on the Amazon shelves until many thousands of years after Joseph and the Pharaohs.

In fact, if Muhammed (May Peace Be Upon Him) had been around when Joseph was, it wouldn't have been Joe coming out of the caravan raid in a coat of many colors, it would have been Moe.

I scent the effluvia of many camels in this report

[Red Badger]

pING!

[what's up]

Where's more proof that the coin shows the name of "Joseph"?

If we can get some corroborating proof, this is an amazing find.

[American Constitutionalist]

Very interesting.
More evidence the BIBLE is true, and the GOD of Israel is who he says he is, the one and only true God.

PSALM 14:1

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

[ml/nj]

I was excited about this at first, but I think its too pat. I suspect fraud. I am troubled too by the supposed Egyptian name, "Saba Sabani." I've never heard this name before. I suspect it has some Koranic origin, which would make me even more suspicious of the find. (The earliest possible existence of the Koran is about 2000 years after Joseph.) But even if it isn't Koranic, I'm troubled then by the nonplussed attitude of the author here regarding this name. Joseph does get an Egyptian name in the Bible but it is Zaphenath-paneah, which is just a rendering of the Hebrew in Roman letters, and doesn't appear to me to be at all close to Saba Sabani.

ML/NJ

[jwparkerjr]

re: bore the name of Egypt, a date, and a value

A date? That’s interesting. I wonder how they dated something in those days. I hope it didn’t say something like 1,200 BC.

Seriously, how were dates described that long ago?

[Rockitz]

But all that bible stuff is a bunch of myths. /sarcasm

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Forgeries.

Coins were an invention of the Lydians c.700 BC, over 700 years later than Joseph, and their use spread from there. Had coins been an earlier invention, their earlier use would have been ubiquitous.

(I have a fair acquaintance with numismatics.)

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

But surprisingly, Koranic verses indicate clearly that coins were used in Egypt in the time of Joseph.

That is because Muhammad was ignorant that coins were an invention of the Lydians 700 years later.

[SunkenCiv]

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