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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 0:41:16 GMT -5
Despite his great renown in the Bible, there isn't one shred of historical evidence that a King Solomon ever existed in the land that is now the Israel of the 21st Century. His fame is such that like other biblical names, it is a translation or substitution hiding his real identity. However when we relocate the search to Egypt, there is so much that cannot be ignored. In fact there can be no doubt at all that King Solomon was the Pharaoh Amenhotep III AND in some biblical verses his son Amenhotep IV who was also known as Akhenaten. There is so much evidence to support this, that this thread will extend to several parts to give the reader time to absorb and hopefully check for him or her that this is the truth of the matter. To begin, let us take a good look at this great King and see how he might well present himself to us were he living today. This engraving on a memorial stone shows him as a young man - Attachments:
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 0:46:39 GMT -5
Solomon’s Name. Egyptian names when written normally begin with a God Name. This is a cartouche which reads YMN HTP. The first three glyphs read YMN and this is more fully explained in my page THE GOD AMEN PART ONE (To be posted in a new thread shortly) The bottom three glyphs spell out HTP - The horizontal line with upright 'loaf' is a three consonant glyph for the whole three letters HTP and the hemisphere and rectangle glyphs are simply emphatic glyphs reminding us of the last two letters. As we shall see in the thread ISRAEL IN EGYPT the people of Lower Egypt were Hebrews who had their own language. They did not use the word 'Hotep' for 'Peace', 'Content', or 'Offering'. They were no less Egyptians then, just as the Jews of America, Britain, Australia, etc. are no less nationals of these countries today who retain Hebrew as their religious language. THEY KNEW THEIR KING AS 'SALIM YMN', since 'Salim' was the Hebrew translation of 'Hotep'. The Greeks however stuck to a Hellenic version of the Egyptian, and called him, AMENOPHIS. The fact that the god name went to the end in Hebrew speech is not unusual. We see it frequently with the names of other kings whose God Name is written first, but in speech is reversed and at the end of the name. However in the Greek Septuagint he became óáëùìùí - 'Salomon'. Solomon's 80,000 Quarry Men 1 Kings 5:15 - Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and EIGHTY THOUSAND HEWERS OF STONE in the hill country, 16. besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work. 17. At the King's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. 18. So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the hewing and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house." (Revised Standard Version) The Egyptian historian Manetho, who lived circa 350BCE, wrote: ""Thus it came about that 80,000 unclean individuals were rounded up and dispatched to the stone quarries, which are on the east side of the Nile, where they worked segregated from the rest of the Egyptian population. Among their number were some learned priests that were polluted with the leprosy." Here we have an exact match. Even if bible scribes were copying from Manetho, or he miraculously had access to the Hebrew Bible, it still shows that they were both well aware of the Temple being in Egypt. The 'unclean individuals' is a typical term for those who were of another faith. Such a situation was most unlikely before Akhenaten split the nation with his brand of Atenism. Therefore in this case it appears that he was the ruling Pharaoh and that he was still known by his former name of Amenhotep IV. Attachments:
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 0:52:08 GMT -5
Wives and Concubines 1 Kings 11:3 -"And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines...” Seven hundred wives have to be only in the wild imagination of the biblical scribe. Concubines are numbered separately, so the wives cannot be just ladies of his Harem, unless there was some kind of grading within that part of his palace. Just imagine the continual marriage ceremonies. Since his reign lasted almost 40 years that would be nearly 18 marriages for every years of his rule. We do know the names of some wives; especially his number one wife, Queen Etiye and we'll have a look at these in a moment. The concubines are easily found in historical fact, so we'll deal with these first. A total of Five Commemorative Scarabs have been found that mention Marriages of Ymn Htp III with foreign princesses. This one found at Tel Beath Shean in modern day Israel describes the '300 concubines of 1 Kings 11:3, as '317 ladies-in-waiting' Egyptian numerals were rather simple. They can be seen in the bottom row of glyphs at the extreme left - above. One vertical stroke was 'one' and this was repeated for numbers up to 9. A 'croquet hoop' glyph was used to count out 'tens', and something like a large inverted comma represented 'hundreds'. Attachments:
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 0:54:50 GMT -5
1 Kings 11:19 -"...the king gave his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, to Hadad in marriage."
A letter on a stone tablet found in the ruins of Akhetaten, modern day Amarna, refers to one of Amenhotep III's wives, Taduheba. When the Greek rulers of Egypt Hellenised names of towns and people they changed this to Taduhepenes.
1 Kings 11:1 -"But King Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites."
Osman - 'Out of Egypt' -"He (Amenhotep) also furthered the cause of Peace by a series of judicious marriages - two princesses from Syria, Mitanni and Babylonia, and one from Arzawa in south-western Asia Minor."
1 Kings 7:8 -"Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife."
Amenhotep III did indeed marry his father's daughter, Sitamun. A King of Israel could not have married the daughter of a Pharaoh. The Amarna letters tell us that Egyptian Kings did not give their daughters in marriage to foreign rulers.
But there is no doubt that Amenhotep III's favourite wife was the Queen Etiye. She is always shown by Egyptologists as 'Tiye'. There was no letter 'E' in Egyptian, so dropping the initial 'E' is excusable. However we know from the Kebra Nagast that there was an initial 'E', since Solomon's Son's Mother was, we are told, 'Eteye Azeb'. Could Azeb be Asheb or Sheba? If so then Solomon did marry the Queen of Sheba.
Solomon’s Palace
Koran - The Chapter of The Ant - 27 Mecca - (E H Palmer translation) "And it was said to her, 'Enter the court;' and when she saw it, she reckoned it to be an abyss of water, and she uncovered her legs. Said he, 'Verily, it is a court paved with glass!' “
Now this is a very strong piece of evidence - ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND FRAGMENTS OF GLAZED TILES THAT REPRESENTED WATER AND SOME WITH PICTURES OF SWIMMING DUCKS AND FISH. WALL AND CEILING MURALS SHOWED BIRDS FLYING. BUT ONLY IN THE RUINS OF THE PALACE OF YMNHTP III AT MALQATA ON THE WEST BANK OF THE NILE FROM LUXOR
1 Kings 7:7 - The Throne Room, also called the Hall of Judgement, where Solomon decided cases, had cedar panels from the floor to the rafters." (Good News Version).
The Throne Room of Amenhotep III in Western Thebes (Luxor west bank) has been described as follows: "The reception quarters consist of a large squarish hall with many rows of columns in wood and throne dais set along the axis of the entrance corridor, a second smaller hypostyle (columned) hall with a throne dais near it, a throne room and a bedroom.
1 Kings 7:1 - "Solomon also built a palace for himself and it took him thirteen years."
The King's Palace in West Thebes was "the oldest and most important building, occupying the south-east quarter of the great complex and adjoined on the east by its kitchens, offices and store-rooms. It had also a section for the king's harem and was connected with a smaller palace, the residence of Queen Etiye, daughter of the king's high official, Yuya (Joseph).
1 Kings 7:8 - "Solomon's own quarters, in another court behind the Hall of Judgement, were made like other buildings. He also built the same kind of house for his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt."
Amenhotep III did indeed marry his own sister, the Princes Sitamun, "the daughter of Tuthmosis IV, in order to gain his right to the throne, which was the Egyptian custom. William C. Hayes, the American scholar, commented in an article in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies in 1951: …'the great North Palace…appears to have been the residence of an extremely important royal lady, quite possibly Queen Sitamun.'
1 Kings 7:6 (KJV) - "And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
1 Kings 7:6 (Good News Bible 2nd Edition) - "The Hall of Columns was 22.5 metres long and 13.5 metres wide. It had A COVERED PORCH, SUPPORTED BY COLUMNS."
We can actually check these measurements against a plan of the ruins of Amenhotep III's Palace at Malqata on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor. Just check it for yourself. Go to the web page Malqata Palace. Identification can be made easier by increasing the size of the plan and scale until the scale of 40 metres is 4 centimetres long. One can do this by right clicking on computer mouse, and then 'Save Picture As...’ Open the image in a Photo, Browser or Word programme, and then drag a corner until the whole image increases to the desired size. The topmost hall in the plan only shows where 4 columns once stood, but in the Hall next to it, there is a double line of 8 columns, making 16 in all. Now measure with a ruler the length and width of this Hall. You should get a result of something close to 23.7 metres long and 13.7 metres wide. This is slightly over the Bible figures, but there would have been some panelling, and we do not know what cubit the ancients were using. The Good News Bible figures though indicate that the Akkadian or Ugarit cubit of 44.5 centimetres has been used
Hayes described the Royal Audience Pavilion - "its floor elevated above the surrounding terrain, its northern façade provided with A BALCONY-LIKE PROJECTION JUTTING OUT INTO A DEEP, COLONNADED COURTYARD'.
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 0:57:10 GMT -5
1 Kings 7:2/3 - "The Hall of the Forest of Lebanon was 44 metres long, 22 metres wide, and 13.5 metres high. It had three rows of cedar pillars, fifteen in each row, with cedar beams resting on them. The ceiling was of cedar, extending over store-rooms which were supported by the pillars." Hayes described a 'Festival Hall, prepared for the celebration of Amenhotep III's second sed festival,' and wrote "a big colonnaded building that extended at the very north of the palace complex. The complex also included houses for other members of the royal family as well as court officials and servants. Exactly as the Bible says, all the pillars were of cedar wood imported from Lebanon." Alexander Badawy, an Egyptian scholar, gives a detailed description of the hall in his book, 'A History of Egyptian Architecture: 'Ceilings were of timber rafters, covered beneath with lath and plaster and painted with a series of protecting Nekhbet vultures in the official halls and in the bedroom of the Pharaoh, or with vines within a frame of rosettes and chequered pattern, spirals and bulls' heads, similar to Aegean ornament. Floors were decorated in the same technique to represent a pool with papyrus, lotus and fowl." * * * * * * Kings-1 7:10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. Kings-1 7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. In the Good News Bible, they have kindly converted the cubits into metric - "some of them 3600 millimetres long and others 4500 millimetres long. From "Ancient Egypt" magazine June/July 2009: "Another significant find is a large sandstone architrave. It was found broken in several pieces, which are now being cleaned and are to be joined and restored. It is 4.42 metres long and 1.7 metres wide. The architrave is inscribed on two sides with a hieroglyphic text in sunken relief, comprising the dedication text of the temple, which was called the 'House of Millions of Years' by Amenhotep III. [Malcolm - Salim Amen or Solomon]. There is however a discrepancy. The Bible states that the palace was built with stones, and whilst this is true to some extent, as is proven by the architrave and foundation stones, it is thought that Malqata Palace was built with mud bricks which would have been much cooler in the hot summer months. The theory then goes on to say that the mud bricks have deteriorated and vanished over the thousands of years. Isn't it just as likely that local villagers pillage stones they could move and use for their own homes? After all they did this elsewhere and removed most of the limestone slabs that once covered the Pyramids. Attachments:
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 0:58:30 GMT -5
Solomon's Reign
1 Kings 11:42 -"He was king in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years."
Amenhotep III was King of both Egypt and the land that became Israel. It is now generally accepted that his reign lasted from 1382 BCE to 1344BCE, and according to the historian Manetho, his rule lasted for 38 years and 7 months. But why stress 'Jerusalem'. Why not just 'king over all Israel'? It is like saying that the Elizabeth is Queen in London over all Australia which is true, but it wouldn't sound right if the record also said that she was Queen in London over all England. Again true, but unlikely to be put this way. If however Israel at the time was an appellation referring not to a nation but to a people who were highly concentrated in the capital province that was known as 'The City founded on Peace', i.e. 'Uru Salim', at least three hundred years before the supposed biblical account and before the Exodus then it makes more sense. Furthermore Amenhotep III's son Akhenaten was a Co-Regent with his seat of power in his new city of Akhetaten. Thus the verse could very well be disassociating Israel from the new heretic cult of the Aten. The priests of Amen, who still exist to this very day, were it is well known trying to regain power and Amenhotep III could have been in dispute over this with his son. A possible scenario therefore is that Horemheb expelled Akhenaten (believed to be Moses), who left Egypt with his followers and ended up in Qumran, hence his name in The Copper Scroll. Subsequently Rameses I expels the Heprw people who have reverted to the God, Amen. Horemheb was the last Pharaoh to have the Heprw Sign in his Throne name, until Seti II in 1200 BCE. But this is only conjecture and one of many possibilities.
Solomon's Administration
1 Kings 4:7 -1 Kings 4:7 -"Solomon appointed twelve men as district governors in Israel. They were to provide food from their districts for the king and his household, each man being responsible for one month out of the year." (Good News Version).
Osman - 'Out of Egypt' - "The sudden appearance of such a supposed administration in Israelite tribal society during the 'United Monarchy of David and Solomon' in the 10th century BC, without any roots in the nation's previous history and followed by its sudden disappearance after Solomon's death, has been a source of puzzlement to scholars. The apparent contradiction is resolved, however, once identification of the historical David (Tuthmosis III) and Solomon (Amenhotep III) makes it clear that the sophisticated administration described in the Old Testament is the administration established by these two monarchs in the 15th and 14th centuries BC to deal with the day-to-day task of ruling Egypt and its empire. During the empire period - and particularly during the time of Tuthmosis III (David) - the administrative system was reorganized to suit the needs of the age, and later further developed by Amenhotep III. It was then that, for the purposes of taxation, the empire was arranged in 12 administrative sections, an arrangement that the biblical narrator drew on for his account of the king the world now knows as Solomon. Almost all scholars agree (for example the German scholar Otto Eissfeldt) that the taxation system that the Bible says was introduced by Solomon matches precisely the system that was used in Egypt after Tuthmosis III had established the new Egyptian empire. Each of the 12 areas was the responsibility of a high official and was expected to contribute sufficient tax to cover the country's needs for one month of the year."
Solomon's Chariotry
1Kings 10:26 -"And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem."
Osman - 'Out of Egypt' - "These figures are far beyond the scope of a minor kingdom that Israel may have been at that time. They could only have been mustered by Egypt. Amenhotep III organized his Chariotry into a separate Unit early in his reign and his father-in-law Yuya (Yu-Zaph or Joseph), as the first minister to bear the title 'Deputy of His Majesty in the Chariotry."
1Kings 10:28/29 "The King's agents controlled the export of chariots from Egypt"
This is absolute proof that Solomon was a King of Egypt as well as head of his people whom he called 'Israel'. Only the King of Egypt's own agents could control the export of what was then equivalent to the nuclear power of the 14th century BC.
Solomon's Religion
1Kings 11:4 - "….his wives turned away his heart after other gods…"
Amenhotep's name tells us that he worshipped the god 'Amen'. Towards the end of his reign it appears that he turned to the god of his wife Queen Tiye's father, Yuya (Joseph), the Aten. The events described by Graham Phillips in his book "Act of God" may have been the trigger. - "For someone so completely devoted to Amun-Re, Amonhotep does something very strange towards the end of his independent reign: he erects literally hundreds of statues to another deity - the goddess Sekhmet. At Asher, half a kilometre to the south of the Temple of Amun, Amonhotep was in the process of rebuilding a temple to the chief goddess Mut, when he suddenly reconsecrated it as a temple to Sekhmet."
We have to be talking about Egypt here. 1 Kings 11:4 His wives turned his head over other gods. If Solomon was devoted to one God, who were all these other gods? In the case of YmnHtp III we do know that he went along with his son Akhenaten with the worship of the one God, the Aten, and the Lord. So this may be what was meant.
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 0:59:45 GMT -5
Solomon's City
There are two theories behind the name of Jerusalem. Osman suggests that it derives from the words 'Uru' and 'Salim'. 'Uru' comes from the verb 'yarah', meaning to found or establish. 'Salim' means peace. Thus Uru-Salim was the City founded on Peace. In view of Amenhotep III's long reign of peace, this is quite possible, and in this case it would have to have been Thebes.
On the other hand, according to Massey, "There were already two Jerusalem’s from the time when Judea and Palestine were appendages of Egypt. Two Jerusalem’s were recognized by Paul, one terrestrial, one celestial. The name of Jerusalem we read as the Aarru-salem or fields of peace, equivalent to Aarru-hetep or Sekhet-hetep, the fields of peace in Egyptian. Jerusalem below was the localized representative of Jerusalem above, the Aarru-salem or Aarru-hetep on the mount of peace in the heaven of the never-setting stars."
If this is the true origin, then Hebrew migrants may have named their new city after the celestial one. On the other hand, if author Tony Bushby is right in surmising that King Solomon's Temple is the complex recently discovered beneath the Pyramids and Sphinx, then the immediate vicinity may have been the first 'fields of peace' or Jerusalem.
There is, I believe, a more logical explanation. We must remember that the biblical King David was Djayhwt III and that it was this king who built the first great temple in Waset (Thebes/Luxor) followed by his great grandson SalimAmen III who added to the Temple complex. Therefore we know for certain that Luxor was King David's City.
The Egyptians embellished people and places with several names besides the ones that we recognise today. It is therefore quite possible that they not only called Waset the 'Many Gated City', *** but also knew it as IAH RE SALIM - (The Peace or Rest of the Moon God Yah and the Sun God Reh). Wherever we find a name beginning with 'Y' in Egyptian or Hebrew, then English has a tendency to transliterate this into a 'J'.
Similarly Akhetaten's (Moses) new city of Akhetaten was very likely known as IAH RE KA - (The Spirit of Yah and Re). Horemheb aka Djoser Setepenre (Joshua) was a general who became King and he did knock down the city walls of Akhetaten, and in fact tried to expunge every memory of this city and the King who built it. So this was the original Jericho.
*** The Koran says that Joseph's brothers entered the city by different gates. This is also in Jewish traditions. (Midrash bereshith Rabbah 89). Thebes was known around the ancient world as ‘The city with many gates'. Homer mentioned it circa 8th century BC as the hundred-gated city. Waset (Greek named Thebes) was full of whacking great Pylon gates - ceremonial and part of the Temple complex.
The Songs of Solomon
Either YmnHtp III, the Biblical King Solomon, may have written the songs of Solomon or more likely his son YmnHtp IV who renamed himself Akhenaten. Psalm 104 has been identified as having its roots in the Hymn to Aten believed to have been written by Akhenaten.
It is therefore no surprise to find a verse in the Bible Songs of Solomon containing three locations, which just have to be Egyptian.
Song-of-Solomon 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, [my] spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
The Heprew migrants going into Israel may have resurrected these names like many others, but with the songs being attributed to Solomon they must be actual locations in Egypt or have some meaning in their old religion of the stars.
Gerald Massey shows in his book "Ancient Egypt Light of the World" (1907) how Israel was once part of Egypt as was Iuta - Judah. More evidence that this was so can be found in the Bible. See “Israel
It is tempting to take 'Amana' as Amarna, where Akhenaten built his new capital city devoted to the worship of the Aten. However the name, by which it is known now, Amarna, may be much more recent.
Wikpedia - "The frequent designation "Tel el-Amarna" for the city is inaccurate: nowhere do the ancient remains constitute a mound of eroded architecture that would warrant the description of a "Tel" (Arabic: "city mound"), so common elsewhere in the region. Cyril Aldred notes that the name "Tel el-Amarna" is a misunderstanding of the name for one of the modern villages near the ruins, Et Til el Amarna. The name "Amarna" itself comes from the name of a tribe of nomads, the Beni Amran, who left the Eastern Desert in the 18th century to settle on the banks of the Nile along this stretch."
It is still possible that if this is true, then these nomads may have named themselves after 'Amarna', especially since both Heprew and Arabs went on to worship the God, Amen. After the demise of Akhetaten the priests of Amen resumed their traditional power base and temples to Amen flourished once more.
We are on safer ground though to look to Gerald Massey who wrote “When the nether-world had been completely excavated by Ptah, Amenta was established as the lower storey of two in the mount of earth which henceforth becomes the mount of Amenta. The name denotes the hidden or secret (Amen) earth (ta). It is also called the earth of eternity, the land of the living; for the Egyptians call those the living whom the less spiritualistic moderns designate the dead. The mount of earth became the mount of Amenta because Amenta had been tunnelled through the lower earth." In this case the scribe is recalling the Egyptian 'Amenta' when writing 'from the top of Amana'.
Shenir is much easier to place. Massey tells us, ‘The word Shennu or Sheni in Egyptian also denotes an orbit, the circuit or circle, to turn and return. Hence the solar god was designated lord of Sheni. Mount Sheni, as the place of turning and returning, is the mount of the equinox. This was the mount of the two lions, and these also are the Sheni by name." There were, it is thought, two lion Sphinx next to the Great Pyramid.
In this next passage by Massey, Shenir is not only identified as Mount Sinai, but is linked to Hermon which was Khnum a religious site devoted to the worship of Khnum and later renamed Hermopolis by the Greeks:
"Here there is some evidence to show that the Hebrew Sinai is derived from the Egyptian Sheni. Ra, the solar god, is designated lord of Sheni in the Ritual. The speaker in chapter 36 says, "I am Khnum, the lord of Sheni", or Shennu, equivalent to Sinai in Hebrew. When Osiris becomes the supreme lord of the mountain in Amenta he is also described as the "commander in the region of Sheni." He is a form of that lord over all who gave the Commandments on Mount Sinai."
Massey then dismisses Mount Sinai as being a mountain in the earthly sense:
"The difficulty of identifying Sinai as a geographical mount, according to the book of Exodus, may be explained when we know that the beginnings were not geographical, and that the mount on which Shu-Anhur shared the throne of Ra his father was the mountain in Amenta, not on earth. It was the stellar mount of glory in the eschatology which had been the mount of sunrise in the mythology."
We can be reasonably sure that Mount Sinai was the Great Pyramid - (see Mount Sinai ) and it was of course a crucial focus point for the Nephilim - the Egyptian Astronomers who 'watched' the Giant Constellation, Orion. As Ralph Ellis points out in "Tempest and Exodus", Mount Sinai would have to be an extremely small mountain to set bounds around it, and a boundary that was sharply delineated -
"Exodus 19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death"
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 1:01:18 GMT -5
Solomon's Wisdom
1 Kings 3:9 -"So give me the wisdom I need"
1 Kings 10:4 -"The Queen of Sheba heard Solomon's wisdom and saw the palace he had built."
Wisdom comes to us as inspirational ideas, but the main source is through books. Small bookplates of faience have been found in the ruins of the King's Palace in Western Thebes bearing his name. One entitled "The Book of the Pomegranate Tree" may have been referred to in connection with the building of the Palace.
1 Kings 7:20 -"There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows round each capital."
1 Kings 3:9/12 -Amenhotep III was renowned for his great wisdom.
Solomon's Father
Amenhotep III, that is Salim-Amen, was the son of Tuthmosis IV. His name in Egyptian is quite different. It may be that the first Egyptologist to translate the name was biased, and was trying to hide the King's true identity. The first part of his name is shown in his cartouche by the hieroglyph of a 'Sacred Ibis', which has two strokes representing the letter 'y' or 'i' at the very end. In English it is pronounced as Dyayhwti.
However the letter 'i' is more likely to be "a special adjective form of the preposition" (Refer "How to Read Hieroglyphs by Mark Collier and Bill Manley, para 60.), meaning 'who is' or 'who are'. The last part of his name - 'Mosis' has had arbitrary vowels inserted, for none are shown in the King's Cartouche. It only has the glyphs for the letters 'MS', and could just as easily be read as 'Moses', 'Meses' (as in Rameses) as well as 'Mosis'. In English, it means 'Born of', or perhaps, 'Son'. Properly translated the cartouche should be read as either 'Born of He who is Dyayhwt', or 'Son of He who is Dyayhwt'.
Tuthmosis IV was not the Biblical David. Historical records point more to the biblical David as having been Dyhwti-Ms III, the great-grandfather of Amenhotep III/Solomon. The Scribes have merely admixed the two Davids into One. A simple error bearing in the mind the many centuries of oral tradition.
Solomon's Ancestry
There was a 16th Dynasty King named JACOB whose recorded history could well be that of the Biblical Jacob. We cannot tell whether Amenhotep III/Solomon was a descendant of this Pharaoh. We do know however that his father-in-law was the Chief Minister Yuya or Yu-Zaph, who was also head of Chariotry, and thus a very strong candidate as the biblical Joseph.
Solomon's Family
Amenhotep III had a daughter named Beketaten. His son Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhetaten in recognition of the new religion. In later years Tutankhaten changed his name to Tutankhamen when the Aten cult fell from favour. Thus Beketaten may have been formerly named after the Sun God 'Re' as were many Pharaohs. In this case she would have been known as Rebeke or Rebecca. Similarly the Pharaoh's grand-daughter Meritaten was most likely also known as Meriamen or Miriam.
Religious Fanatics will grasp at any straw to steer the open minded researcher away from evidence in these pages. The best one of them has been able to come up with is 'Where is the letter 'T' in Rebeke and Miriam.
Wilder variations were quite common, especially when the alternative name was in another language. For example Amenhotep III was also known as NEB MAAT RE. In one of the Armana tablets written during his reign, he is addressed not as Ymnhtp nor SalimYmn, nor Nebmaatre, but as 'NIMMURIA'. We would never even guess at such a change, but this is a proven reality. Furthermore the odd letters here and there were omitted from time to time - in writing - partly we surmise for euphony. The letter 'T' was used as a suffix in Egyptian in feminine words and names, similar to 'ette' in English, e.g. Usherette. It wasn't necessary when using the Hebrew versions of the same names, that is, Rebeke and Miriam.
1Kings 11:19 -"Hadad won the friendship of the king, and the king gave his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, to Hadad in marriage."
Late in his life Amenhotep III married the daughter of Tushratta, the King of Mitanni. Her name was Tadukhepa which to the Greeks would have become something like 'Tadukhepenes' and most likely shortened to Tahpenes.
Solomon's Reign
1 Kings 11:42 -"He was king in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years."
Amenhotep III was King of both Egypt and the land that became Israel. It is now generally accepted that his reign lasted from 1382 BCE to 1344BCE, and according to the historian Manetho, his rule lasted for 38 years and 7 months.
But why stress 'Jerusalem'. Why not just 'king over all Israel'? It is like saying that the Elizabeth is Queen in London over all Australia which is true, but it wouldn't sound right if the record also said that she was Queen in London over all England. Again true, but unlikely to be put this way. If however Israel at the time was an appellation referring not to a nation but to a people who were highly concentrated in the capital province that was known as 'The City founded on Peace', i.e. 'Uru Salim', at least three hundred years before the supposed biblical account and before the Exodus then it makes more sense. Furthermore Amenhotep III's son Akhenaten was a Co-Regent with his seat of power in his new city of Akhetaten.
Thus the verse could very well be disassociating Israel from the new heretic cult of the Aten. The priests of Amen, who still exist to this very day, were it is well known trying to regain power and Amenhotep III could have been in dispute over this with his son.
A possible scenario therefore is that Horemheb expelled Akhenaten (believed to be Moses), who left Egypt with his followers and ended up in Qumran, hence his name in The Copper Scroll. Subsequently Rameses I expels the Heprw people who have reverted to the God, Amen. Horemheb was the last Pharaoh to have the Heprw Sign in his Throne name, until Seti II in 1200 BCE. But this is only conjecture and one of many possibilities
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 1:03:16 GMT -5
Solomon's Temple Something is very very wrong with the Temple description given in 1 Kings Chapter 6. For a start the overall measurements of the Temple are minimal. Using the Akkadian/Ugarit cubit they are no more than 27 metres long by 9 metres wide. Most small churches or chapels are much larger than this and the furnishings described are far too grandiose for a building hardly bigger than a large garage. There is also a noticeable error with the placement of the cherubim. With their wings alone stretching from one wall to the other, there isn't a single millimetre remaining to fit in the bodies of these angelic creatures. We can tell by the cherubim that adorn the golden shrine of YmnTwtAnkh that the bodies would have to be at least two-fifths of a cubit wide. This means that the cherubim would have required almost 21 cubits of space between walls, which were only 20 cubits apart. A Christian apologist has offered the explanation that the creatures had their backs to the wall and that their wing joints were adjacent. Stop here and think about it for a moment. This excuse is very desperate and getting to the bottom of the barrel. If this were so, then their wing joints would have to be touching each other with not even one millimetre to spare – since the measurements given are that precise. Such a creature would not be able to flap their wings. Their joints would crack together, not to mention the havoc caused to the delicate bone structure apparent in any of the avian species. Besides, the artistry from wall to wall would be shocking and certainly not becoming a temple to a god. Greek Historian Herodotus was born circa 490 to 480BCE, so his visit to Palestine must have taken place around the middle of that century, when Solomon's Temple should have been well known, and worthy of at least a passing mention. Yet Herodotus wrote only of two pillars in Tyre. He just couldn't have missed a fabulous Temple where the entire inside was covered in gold. During his visit to Egypt he recorded several tales about Thebes (Uaset) and he does mention the Temple of Jupiter in that city where a great statue of Jupiter had the head of a Ram. This would have to be Ymnhtp III's Temple of Amen, where an avenue of ram headed sphinxes still leads to the entrance. Herodotus was always interested in religion and how it was practised in each country he visited. A Temple where there were no statues or images to any God would have been a curiosity to him, and one about which, he surely would have had some comment to make. Let us look at those figures again, from 1 Kings 6:2. The Temple was a mere twenty cubits wide, equal to 9 metres or 30 feet, and only three-score cubits long, equal to 27 metres or 100 feet. A church in Cairns along with a community hall close to it, was erected in December 2006, and each building would be larger than the one Temple of 1 Kings 6. They were completed and the outside walls finished and painted within some two or three months. Solomon's Temple though took seven years (1 Kings 6:38) and more than 150,000 people were employed on the project (1 Kings 5:15/16). The King then had to employ 24,000 to work on the Temple, with 6000 officials to run the place, and 4000 porters to carry 'Heaven knows what?' Another 4000 had to somehow cram into the confines of this tiny chapel, along with instruments to 'Praise The Lord'. The crush within must have been unbearable, and if they did somehow manage to raise a tune on their instruments, the noise and smell would both have been very noxious. The Only Conclusion we can rationally make is that the Bible is talking about two different temples, perhaps one ever so small church in the Palestinian Jerusalem, and the real Temple that was remembered from another country and another time. New evidence has been highlighted in the latest book by Robert Feather, "The Mystery of The Copper Scroll of Qumran". Not only are Egyptian numerals used in the Scroll, but Greek letters scattered through it, spell out the name of 'Akhenaten', the Heretic King, son of Amenhotep III/Solomon, who tried so hard to change religious belief in Egypt, and who is thought by so many biblical scholars to have been either Moses or Aaron. Weights and measures in the Copper Scroll also make more sense as Egyptian, and using them as such the amount of gold found in the ruins at Amarna are virtually a perfect match for the gold listed in some columns, with only a 4% discrepancy. Note: Robert Feather points out that the main building at Qumran is in the same alignment as Akhenaten's Temple at Amarna, and both are one thousand cubits from a river. The Temple at Karnak also has this same alignment and again is one thousand cubits from a Great River, The Nile. We now know that temples in Egypt were aligned to the rising of Sirius. See "The Egypt Code" by Robert Bauval. In fact through the course of centuries and precessional movement of the heavens in relation to the Earth, new temples were realigned to the new position of Sirius in the first rays of dawning sunlight on the horizon. Sirius was seen as the Ever coming Son, Iosa, also known to Egyptians as HR (To the Greeks - Horus). The Heliacal Rising of Sirius only occurred every 1,460 years, and each new 'Sothic Year' was awaited with great excitement. King SalimAmen III would have had his 'Nephilim' - Watchers, i.e. Astronomers - searching for it towards the end of his reign. Alas, he didn't live to see it on or about 21st June, 1321BCE. Instead it would seem that YmnTwtAnkh was 'resurrected' on that date. Like Qumran and Amarna the neighbouring streets at Karnak are laid out in the same general plan. The alignment of the Temples at Karnak is a mirror reflection of the constellation of Aries and an avenue of Ram's Headed Sphinxes leads from Karnak to the Temple at Luxor. Amenhotep III was therefore seen as a Shepherd King and the Living Image of God. The Pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty carried a Flail and a Shepherd's Crook as their symbols of power over the people they ruled who saw the power of God as being centred in either Taurus or Aries. (Refer Genesis 46:33/34 and 31:12 King James Version). Attachments:
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 1:07:04 GMT -5
King Solomon's Temple Continued.. Ezekiel 47:1 - "Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house, and, behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east," (King James Version) Ezekiel 47:3/4 - "And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles." Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to my knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins." Note: The Good News Bible reads 'Temple' Not 'house'. The dreams of Ezekiel weren't written until after the supposed prophecies had taken place. Nevertheless some facts may be gleaned through the confusion of his fantasies. The Temple he describes is aligned west-east and the river is very wide, but only a thousand cubits from the Temple. This surely rules out the Temple in modern day Jerusalem. Whilst these verses put the river to the east of the Temple, Robert Feather in his book "The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran" writes, 'Later in the Old Testament Chapter Ezekiel makes it quite clear that this very wide river is to the west of the Temple.’ Ezekiel chapter 48 does put the Temple to the west of the City..." The New Jerusalem According to Robert Feather - see Part One - Text 5Q15 of the 'New Jerusalem' texts, found in Cave 5 at Qumran describes a City Plan, the number of blocks, and streets, together with the measurements of each block and the width of the streets. It also says that 'all are paved with white stone…marble and jasper.' Since Feather has identified Greek Letters in the Copper Scroll which approximate the name of 'Akhenaten' or 'Akhetaten' it is quite possible that the City in the New Jerusalem texts was the Pharaoh Akhenaten's Akhetaten. That new city was said to be gleaming white in the sunshine for its roads and buildings were made from limestone, which had the appearance of alabaster and the layout of the ruins is precisely as given in the texts. Furthermore the alignment of the Akhetaten Temple is the same as the buildings at Qumran, and both are one thousand Egyptian cubits from a great river or the Dead Sea. How could the Essene community possibly know the geographical layout of the lost city of Akhetaten when the details aren't to be found anywhere else? On top of that The Copper Scroll uses Egyptian numerals to list the treasures of gold, silver, etc. along with the places where they were hidden. Another oddity is that their calendar was solar based, not lunar as we might have expected of a religious community in Israel. None of the treasures have been found in modern Jerusalem despite the most enthusiastic activity by treasure hunters. But the amount of gold found so far in Akhetaten apparently does match the quantity given in the Copper Scroll. There is still much of the treasure still to be found, and Robert Feather points out the likely sites where it is hidden, in his book. But if Akhetaten was the New Jerusalem, then where was the Old? He appears to have overlooked the Temples at Karnak and Luxor where we have again the same strange north-west to south-east alignment, the same city plan, and again a distance of one thousand cubits to the River Nile. Whilst Feather admits that he doesn't know what this alignment can be, Belgian Jean-Pierre LaCroix has shown at some length that the Temples in Luxor and Karnak are a mirror reflection of the constellation of Aries. The title of his web page is - "Thebes: a reflection of the sky on the pharaoh's earth". An avenue of Ram headed Sphinxes ran from one Temple to another to emphasise that each Temple was a Star in the constellation of Aries. We do know that a Civil War broke out between the two factions of the new age of Aries and the old age of Taurus, and this is the subject of Ralph Ellis's book, "Tempest & Exodus". He shows that the Tempest Stela has been wrongly translated, and his translation tells the story of what really happened. If he is correct, then here is the root cause for the whole beginnings of Judaism and the subsequent upheaval when the next new Age - Pisces arrived and kick started Christianity. The Furnishings 1 Kings 6:20/23 - "This inner room was nine metres long, nine metres wide, and nine metres high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels. The inside of the Temple was covered with gold, and gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room, which was also covered with gold. The whole interior of the Temple was covered with gold, as well as the altar in the Most Holy Place. Two winged creatures wee made of olive wood and placed in the Most Holy Place, each one 4.4 metres tall." 1 Kings 6:29/30 - "The walls of the main room and of the inner room were all decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers. Even the floor was covered with gold." A Temple of this grandeur would surely have left some traces, yet despite intensive searches over many decades, archaeologists have found nothing in Israel. Nor has anything been found of his Palace. But then in 1 Kings 10:28/29 the Scribes slipped up and didn't cover up the fact that Solomon had to have been King of Egypt. Only a king of Egypt could control the export of chariots from Egypt. The Temples in Luxor and Karnak appear to fit the bill admirably, and when we look at Solomon's Palaces we have all the main elements listed in 1 Kings. From a plan of Luxor Temple, the Hall of the Barque may be an excellent candidate for the Inner Room described in 1 Kings 6:20. If not this Hall, then perhaps it could have been the Naos or Offering Hall? We do know at least that it was square shaped. Lorna Oakes and Lucia Gahlin - "Ancient Egypt" Page 152. In a description of the Temple built by Amenhotep III/Solomon at Luxor - "...the buildings visible today date from the reign of Amenhotep III, the great temple builder of the Eighteenth Dynasty, a time when Egypt was very prosperous and powerful. On a black granite stela some 3 metres tall, now in the Cairo Museum, his (Amenhotep III) inscription records that he built the temple of: "fine limestone, wide very great and exceedingly beautiful. Its walls are of fine gold, its pavements of silver. All its gates are worked with the pride of lands. Its pylons reach to the sky, its flagpoles to the stars...” This descriptive fragment doesn't tell us much, but that of Amenhotep's Montu Temple in Western Thebes does. According to the Stela found in this temple, Amenhotep III describes the temple as: "an everlasting fortress of sandstone, embellished with gold throughout, its floor shining with silver and all its doorways with electrum (ally of silver and gold). It is wide and very long, adorned for eternity, and made festive with this exceptionally large stele. It is extended with royal statues of granite, of quartzite and precious stones, fashioned to last forever. They are higher than the rising of the heavens: their rays are in men's faces like the rising sun…" The winged creatures are a regular feature in Egyptian Temples, and can be seen on the Shrine in Tutankhamen's tomb. In his book "Akhenaten the Heretic King" Donald B. Redford writes, "The recorded figures of metals and precious stones that went into the Montu temple is quite staggering: 3.25 tons of electrum, 2.5 tons of gold, 924 tons of copper, 1,250 pounds of lapis lazuli, 215 pounds of turquoise, 1.5 tons of bronze and over 10 tons of beaten copper." We could expect no less in the larger temples of Luxor and Karnak, and that means that we have found buildings of the same size and grandeur as are described in 1 Kings 6. Attachments:
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 1:08:06 GMT -5
Solomon's Wealth
1 Kings 10:23 - "So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom." Supposing that there was another King Solomon it is inconceivable that his riches could have been anywhere near that of the Pharaoh, never mind exceeding them.
Osman - 'Out of Egypt' - "Amenhotep III describes the temple (his mortuary temple) as: … an everlasting fortress of sandstone, embellished with gold throughout, its floor shining with silver and all its doorways with electrum [alloy of silver and gold]. It is wide and very long, adorned for eternity, and made festive with this exceptionally large stele. It is extended with royal statues of granite, of quartzite, and precious stones, fashioned to last forever. They are higher than the rising of the heavens: their rays are in men's faces like the rising sun…..Its workshops are filled with male and female slaves, the children of chieftains of all the countries which my majesty conquered. Its magazines have stored up uncountable riches. It is surrounded by villages of Syrians, peopled with children of chieftains; its cattle are like the sands of the shore, totalling millions."
Osman then refers to Donal Redford's book "Akhenaten the Heretic King" in which he wrote, "The recorded figures of metals and precious stones that went into the Montu temple is quite staggering: 3.25 tons of electrum, 2.5 tons of gold, 924 tons of copper, 1,250 pounds of lapis lazuli, 215 pounds of turquoise, 1.5 tons of bronze and over 10 tons of beaten copper…"
Solomon's Mines
Charles Pope "The Mines at Timna in the Negev are traditionally thought to be Solomon's Mines. They date to the period of Amenhotep III's reign.
Massey - 'Ancient Egypt' -"The Egyptians also preserved traditions of Ta-nuter, the holy land that was known by the name of Punt or Puanta. Maspero spells the name Puanit. The present writer has rendered it Puanta. One meaning of anta, in Egyptian, is yellow or golden. Hence Puanta the golden. The name is applied in the Ritual (ch. 15) to the land of dawn, or anta, as the golden = the land of gold. ……But the land of Puanta is also geographical, and there was an Egyptian tradition that this divine country could be reached by ascending the river Nile (Maspero, Histoire Ancienne, p. 5).
It was reported that in a remote region south you came to an unknown great water which bathed Puanta or the holy land, Ta-nuter. This, we suggest, was that nearest and largest of all the African lakes, now called the Victoria Nyanza, from which the river Nile debouches on its journey north.
.....it is recorded on the monuments that two naval expeditions were made by the Egyptians to the land of Puanta. The first occurred in the reign of Sankh-Ka-Ra, the last king of the eleventh dynasty, long before the expedition to Puanta was made in the time of Queen Hatshepsut (eighteenth dynasty). The leader of this earlier expedition was a nobleman named Hannu, who describes his passage inland through the desert and the cultivated land.
On his return to Egypt from the gold land, he speaks of coming back from the land of Seba, and thus far identifies the one with the other. He says: "When I returned from Seba, or Seboea, I had executed the king's command, for I brought him back all kinds of presents which I had met with in the ports of Puanta, and I came back by the road of Uak and of Hannu" (Inscription, Rohan).
In the story of the shipwrecked sailor the speaker says of his voyage: "I was going to the mines of Pharaoh, in a ship that was 150 cubits long and 40 cubits wide, with 150 of the best sailors in Egypt". He was shipwrecked on an island, which turned out to be in the land of Puanta. …..It is not said that this was the land of the mines, but he was sailing to the mines when he reached the land of Puanta (Petrie, Egyptian Tales, pp. 82, 90). An inscription found in the tomb of Iua and Thua (of the eighteenth dynasty), which tomb was rich in gold, informs us that the gold had been brought from “the lands of the south".
The Egyptian word for Mines, 'Babait' lives on with the same meaning in Zimbabwe. It seems more likely that the African Mines provided the fabled riches, than those of the Negev.
But this may never be known for certain.
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 1:08:30 GMT -5
King Solomon's Temple Continued..
Ezekiel 47:1 - "Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house, and, behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east," (King James Version)
Ezekiel 47:3/4 - "And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles." Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to my knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins."
Note: The Good News Bible reads 'Temple' Not 'house'.
The dreams of Ezekiel weren't written until after the supposed prophecies had taken place. Nevertheless some facts may be gleaned through the confusion of his fantasies. The Temple he describes is aligned west-east and the river is very wide, but only a thousand cubits from the Temple. This surely rules out the Temple in modern day Jerusalem. Whilst these verses put the river to the east of the Temple, Robert Feather in his book "The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran" writes, 'Later in the Old Testament Chapter Ezekiel makes it quite clear that this very wide river is to the west of the Temple.’ Ezekiel chapter 48 does put the Temple to the west of the City..."
The New Jerusalem
According to Robert Feather - see Part One - Text 5Q15 of the 'New Jerusalem' texts, found in Cave 5 at Qumran describes a City Plan, the number of blocks, and streets, together with the measurements of each block and the width of the streets. It also says that 'all are paved with white stone…marble and jasper.'
Since Feather has identified Greek Letters in the Copper Scroll which approximate the name of 'Akhenaten' or 'Akhetaten' it is quite possible that the City in the New Jerusalem texts was the Pharaoh Akhenaten's Akhetaten. That new city was said to be gleaming white in the sunshine for its roads and buildings were made from limestone, which had the appearance of alabaster and the layout of the ruins is precisely as given in the texts. Furthermore the alignment of the Akhetaten Temple is the same as the buildings at Qumran, and both are one thousand Egyptian cubits from a great river or the Dead Sea.
How could the Essene community possibly know the geographical layout of the lost city of Akhetaten when the details aren't to be found anywhere else? On top of that The Copper Scroll uses Egyptian numerals to list the treasures of gold, silver, etc. along with the places where they were hidden.
Another oddity is that their calendar was solar based, not lunar as we might have expected of a religious community in Israel. None of the treasures have been found in modern Jerusalem despite the most enthusiastic activity by treasure hunters. But the amount of gold found so far in Akhetaten apparently does match the quantity given in the Copper Scroll.
There is still much of the treasure still to be found, and Robert Feather points out the likely sites where it is hidden, in his book. But if Akhetaten was the New Jerusalem, then where was the Old? He appears to have overlooked the Temples at Karnak and Luxor where we have again the same strange north-west to south-east alignment, the same city plan, and again a distance of one thousand cubits to the River Nile.
Whilst Feather admits that he doesn't know what this alignment can be, Belgian Jean-Pierre LaCroix has shown at some length that the Temples in Luxor and Karnak are a mirror reflection of the constellation of Aries. The title of his web page is - "Thebes: a reflection of the sky on the pharaoh's earth". An avenue of Ram headed Sphinxes ran from one Temple to another to emphasise that each Temple was a Star in the constellation of Aries.
We do know that a Civil War broke out between the two factions of the new age of Aries and the old age of Taurus, and this is the subject of Ralph Ellis's book, "Tempest & Exodus". He shows that the Tempest Stela has been wrongly translated, and his translation tells the story of what really happened. If he is correct, then here is the root cause for the whole beginnings of Judaism and the subsequent upheaval when the next new Age - Pisces arrived and kick started Christianity.
The Furnishings
1 Kings 6:20/23 - "This inner room was nine metres long, nine metres wide, and nine metres high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels. The inside of the Temple was covered with gold, and gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room, which was also covered with gold. The whole interior of the Temple was covered with gold, as well as the altar in the Most Holy Place. Two winged creatures wee made of olive wood and placed in the Most Holy Place, each one 4.4 metres tall."
1 Kings 6:29/30 - "The walls of the main room and of the inner room were all decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers. Even the floor was covered with gold."
A Temple of this grandeur would surely have left some traces, yet despite intensive searches over many decades, archaeologists have found nothing in Israel. Nor has anything been found of his Palace. But then in 1 Kings 10:28/29 the Scribes slipped up and didn't cover up the fact that Solomon had to have been King of Egypt. Only a king of Egypt could control the export of chariots from Egypt. The Temples in Luxor and Karnak appear to fit the bill admirably, and when we look at Solomon's Palaces we have all the main elements listed in 1 Kings.
From a plan of Luxor Temple, the Hall of the Barque may be an excellent candidate for the Inner Room described in 1 Kings 6:20. If not this Hall, then perhaps it could have been the Naos or Offering Hall? We do know at least that it was square shaped.
Lorna Oakes and Lucia Gahlin - "Ancient Egypt" Page 152. In a description of the Temple built by Amenhotep III/Solomon at Luxor - "...the buildings visible today date from the reign of Amenhotep III, the great temple builder of the Eighteenth Dynasty, a time when Egypt was very prosperous and powerful. On a black granite stela some 3 metres tall, now in the Cairo Museum, his (Amenhotep III) inscription records that he built the temple of: "fine limestone, wide very great and exceedingly beautiful. Its walls are of fine gold, its pavements of silver. All its gates are worked with the pride of lands. Its pylons reach to the sky, its flagpoles to the stars...”
This descriptive fragment doesn't tell us much, but that of Amenhotep's Montu Temple in Western Thebes does. According to the Stela found in this temple, Amenhotep III describes the temple as: "an everlasting fortress of sandstone, embellished with gold throughout, its floor shining with silver and all its doorways with electrum (ally of silver and gold).
It is wide and very long, adorned for eternity, and made festive with this exceptionally large stele. It is extended with royal statues of granite, of quartzite and precious stones, fashioned to last forever. They are higher than the rising of the heavens: their rays are in men's faces like the rising sun…"
The winged creatures are a regular feature in Egyptian Temples, and can be seen on the Shrine in Tutankhamen's tomb.
In his book "Akhenaten the Heretic King" Donald B. Redford writes, "The recorded figures of metals and precious stones that went into the Montu temple is quite staggering: 3.25 tons of electrum, 2.5 tons of gold, 924 tons of copper, 1,250 pounds of lapis lazuli, 215 pounds of turquoise, 1.5 tons of bronze and over 10 tons of beaten copper."
We could expect no less in the larger temples of Luxor and Karnak, and that means that we have found buildings of the same size and grandeur as are described in 1 Kings 6.
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 30, 2012 1:09:17 GMT -5
Solomon's Punishment
1 Kings 11:11/12 -"....I will take the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your officials. However for the sake of your father David I will not do this in your lifetime, but during the reign of your son."
This is exactly what happened to Amenhotep III. His Son King Twtankhymn (commonly referred to as King Tut), whose name in Hebrew was David like his grandfather, was the last of the family line.
The kingdom then went to the Priest or Official Ay, the prophet Ahijah of the Bible. INCIDENTALLY these verses in the Bible solve the mystery of whether Tut/David was the son of Amenhotep III or of Akhenaten.
Solomon The Hebrew
On the Shrine of Amenhotep III's Son David/Twt is a cartouche containing one of the King's Royal Names, "RE HEPREW NEB". (Following accepted convention among Egyptologists the missing vowels in Egyptian script have been guessed at as being 'E') Re is Egyptian for God and Neb is Egyptian for Lord, and the usual given translation is "Lord God of Manifestations."(or Creations) This is not correct since 'Neb' has a different meaning when it follows the noun it qualifies. 'Neb' only means 'Lord' when it precedes the noun. Written after the noun it becomes 'ALL'.
The correct translation therefore is 'GOD OF ALL CREATIONS'. However, leaving 'Creations in the original Egyptian, it reads 'GOD OF ALL HEPREW'. The letter 'W' in Egyptian was the plural ending, equivalent to the English 'S'. So we should read it as 'GOD OF ALL HEPREWS'.
(In Egyptian the letter 'H' is aspirated as in 'Loch') Most of Ymnhtp III's immediate ancestors, including grandfather and great grandfather also had the name 'Heprew' in one of their titles. The 'Heprew' word is shown as a Scarab Beetle in Egyptian and it's real meaning is 'Coming into Existence', 'Creations', or 'Manifestations'.
We only have to look at the face of Ymnhtp III in monuments and engravings to determine that he had the fine Jewish features. One good example is that of an engraving where he is wearing the Blue Crown of Egypt. Here we can see what he looked like from a left hand side of the face view. Replace the crown with a typical Hasidic hat and he would look like hundreds of thousands of other Orthodox Jews praying before the Temple Wall in Jerusalem. There is nothing Egyptian in this face whatsoever.
Solomon Father of Menelek
The Kebra Nagast (The Ethiopian Bible originating from the Egyptian Coptic Bible) tells us that Solomon had other sons beside Rehoboam, namely MENELEK and Aadrami. King Tutankhamen's cartouche reads YMN TWT ANKH for the name of God is always written first.
TWT or DYHT as in his grandfather's name was the Lunar God whom we know as Thoth or Tuth. IAH or YAH was another name for the Moon God and in Hebrew was often referred to as EL. The Semite population of Egypt were therefore more likely to have known YMN TWT ANKH as YMN EL ANKH.
When shown in biblical names 'Ankh becomes either 'AK', 'ONQ', or 'EK'. Silencing the initial 'Y', King Tutankhamen's name to his Semite subjects was MEN EL EK.
Conversely this means that there was a King Tutankhamen in Africa less than one hundred years ago. King Menelik II was Emperor of Ethiopia until 1913.
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