Post by Malcolm on Sept 4, 2012 17:07:30 GMT -5
We know that this King's name was 'IBRAM' or 'IBRAMAM', and the confusion over how the hieroglyphs were read caused the bible scribe to name him 'Abram' at first and then we find it changed to 'Abraham'. All of this is explained in a following comment.
There is no doubt that King Abraham was famous throughout the Ancient Middle East and this is obviously why the bible scribes picked him as the father of their people and nation.
His first and foremost name was not Abram or Abraham but SHESHI. The other alternatives were his throne name as will be explained.
We do not know exactly when the Pharaoh Sheshi reigned in Egypt. He has been placed in both the 14th and 15th Dynasty's. Nigh on 400 Scarab Seals have been found bearing his name, from all over the Middle East. He had to be a King of great note. His throne name is written as 'Re M'ah ib ah' and usually translated as Maa'ibre.
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Genesis 17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:5 tells us that Abraham was to be a father of many nations. This could only be true of Egypt, who ruled countries to the south and countries to the east.
There were two cities named Babylon in Ancient Times, and Cairo was one of them. In fact part of the City is still known as Babylon. The name is said to originate from the Egyptian 'Per-Hapi-En-On'. Cairo was also once known as Kherara and before that just 'Kher' or 'Khar'. An aspirated 'Kh' could easily make the name sound like 'Uar' or 'Ur'. The masculine genitive in Egyptian is formed by adding the letter 'N'. So a citizen of Khara was known as Kharan, i.e. 'Of Khara'. We know that under Hyksos rule, Lower Egypt must have been regarded by them as an extension of their own country, Canaan, the land of Cain.
Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained [servants], born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.
Note also Josephus: - “Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt at the time, descended on this land with an immense army and seized Sarah the Princess, mother of our nation. And what did our forefather Abraham do? Did he avenge the insult by force of arms? Yet he had three hundred and eighteen officers under him, with unlimited manpower at his disposal!”
Abraham could hardly be a humble shepherd with 318 officers and unlimited manpower. Nor could this be some minor chieftain in a country such as Sumeria. It had to be Egypt and so Abraham had to be a great Pharaoh.
Remember too that had Abraham only lived in Sumeria, then that would not have been a land where he was seen as a stranger as we are told in Genesis 17:8 (above). Furthermore the one ancient land that is noted for being ruled by 'strangers' was Egypt, during the time of the Hyksos, or Shepherd Kings. Hyksos is a Greek name derived from the Egyptian Hek meaning a Shepherd's Crook. They were Hebrew Kings and they believed that Aries the Ram was the dominant constellation, and that the Son of God was a lamb born of Aries.
Here then is the reason why Abraham was called a Shepherd. It had nothing to do with herding animals, but in shepherding his followers, who were Hebrew.
Comment by Ralph Ellis – “Unfortunately, the later editions of the Bible have been over enthusiastically translated into modern English and where the modern translators have come across biblical nonsense, they have used modern idioms to make sense of the text. For example Genesis 31:12 talks of ‘sheep mating with cattle’, which appears to be utter nonsense to most readers and so the Gideon Bible, for instance, has translated this as ‘goats mating with the flocks’.
Malcolm: Knowing the real meaning of sheep and cattle and we know that this verse in Genesis is reporting fraternisation between Hebrew and Egyptians.
Genesis 46:33/34 "Pharaoh will say to you, 'What is your occupation?' You shall say that your trade has been cattle from our youth until now, both we and also our fathers that you may live in the land of Egypt: for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
In other words Joseph is telling his brothers not to reveal that they are Hebrews.
Whilst I have shown that Ur may be derived from an ancient name for Kherar, i.e. Cairo, Ralph Ellis has found another possible explanation.
In his book "Tempest & Exodus" page 177 he shows how the Egyptian name for the Second Pyramid at Giza was in fact UR.
He writes: "The Egyptian name of Ur for the Second Pyramid was derived from its function as a sacred repository; Ur also means both a funerary mountain and a funerary chest, or Ark. The title of the Great Pyramid was Aakhu or Aakhut meaning 'light' - a reference to the divine light of the god RA.......
.......Because of this fire symbology for the triple pyramids of Aakhut, Hor, and Ur, the word Ur was translated into the Greek as Pur meaning 'light' and 'fire'. It is from these origins that the Greek Puramis, the Latin Pyramis and the English 'Pyramid' were eventually derived."
Ellis continues at some length explaining more of how these words were formed.
However the bible story of Abraham going from Ur is more likely to have been twisted from the fact that the King, priests and crowds paraded around the Pyramids in one of their many festivals.
There is no doubt that King Abraham was famous throughout the Ancient Middle East and this is obviously why the bible scribes picked him as the father of their people and nation.
His first and foremost name was not Abram or Abraham but SHESHI. The other alternatives were his throne name as will be explained.
We do not know exactly when the Pharaoh Sheshi reigned in Egypt. He has been placed in both the 14th and 15th Dynasty's. Nigh on 400 Scarab Seals have been found bearing his name, from all over the Middle East. He had to be a King of great note. His throne name is written as 'Re M'ah ib ah' and usually translated as Maa'ibre.
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Genesis 17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:5 tells us that Abraham was to be a father of many nations. This could only be true of Egypt, who ruled countries to the south and countries to the east.
There were two cities named Babylon in Ancient Times, and Cairo was one of them. In fact part of the City is still known as Babylon. The name is said to originate from the Egyptian 'Per-Hapi-En-On'. Cairo was also once known as Kherara and before that just 'Kher' or 'Khar'. An aspirated 'Kh' could easily make the name sound like 'Uar' or 'Ur'. The masculine genitive in Egyptian is formed by adding the letter 'N'. So a citizen of Khara was known as Kharan, i.e. 'Of Khara'. We know that under Hyksos rule, Lower Egypt must have been regarded by them as an extension of their own country, Canaan, the land of Cain.
Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained [servants], born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.
Note also Josephus: - “Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt at the time, descended on this land with an immense army and seized Sarah the Princess, mother of our nation. And what did our forefather Abraham do? Did he avenge the insult by force of arms? Yet he had three hundred and eighteen officers under him, with unlimited manpower at his disposal!”
Abraham could hardly be a humble shepherd with 318 officers and unlimited manpower. Nor could this be some minor chieftain in a country such as Sumeria. It had to be Egypt and so Abraham had to be a great Pharaoh.
Remember too that had Abraham only lived in Sumeria, then that would not have been a land where he was seen as a stranger as we are told in Genesis 17:8 (above). Furthermore the one ancient land that is noted for being ruled by 'strangers' was Egypt, during the time of the Hyksos, or Shepherd Kings. Hyksos is a Greek name derived from the Egyptian Hek meaning a Shepherd's Crook. They were Hebrew Kings and they believed that Aries the Ram was the dominant constellation, and that the Son of God was a lamb born of Aries.
Here then is the reason why Abraham was called a Shepherd. It had nothing to do with herding animals, but in shepherding his followers, who were Hebrew.
Comment by Ralph Ellis – “Unfortunately, the later editions of the Bible have been over enthusiastically translated into modern English and where the modern translators have come across biblical nonsense, they have used modern idioms to make sense of the text. For example Genesis 31:12 talks of ‘sheep mating with cattle’, which appears to be utter nonsense to most readers and so the Gideon Bible, for instance, has translated this as ‘goats mating with the flocks’.
Malcolm: Knowing the real meaning of sheep and cattle and we know that this verse in Genesis is reporting fraternisation between Hebrew and Egyptians.
Genesis 46:33/34 "Pharaoh will say to you, 'What is your occupation?' You shall say that your trade has been cattle from our youth until now, both we and also our fathers that you may live in the land of Egypt: for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
In other words Joseph is telling his brothers not to reveal that they are Hebrews.
Whilst I have shown that Ur may be derived from an ancient name for Kherar, i.e. Cairo, Ralph Ellis has found another possible explanation.
In his book "Tempest & Exodus" page 177 he shows how the Egyptian name for the Second Pyramid at Giza was in fact UR.
He writes: "The Egyptian name of Ur for the Second Pyramid was derived from its function as a sacred repository; Ur also means both a funerary mountain and a funerary chest, or Ark. The title of the Great Pyramid was Aakhu or Aakhut meaning 'light' - a reference to the divine light of the god RA.......
.......Because of this fire symbology for the triple pyramids of Aakhut, Hor, and Ur, the word Ur was translated into the Greek as Pur meaning 'light' and 'fire'. It is from these origins that the Greek Puramis, the Latin Pyramis and the English 'Pyramid' were eventually derived."
Ellis continues at some length explaining more of how these words were formed.
However the bible story of Abraham going from Ur is more likely to have been twisted from the fact that the King, priests and crowds paraded around the Pyramids in one of their many festivals.
