For The Bible Scholar

- Duly & Truly Prepared -

You cannot expect to understand the OT narrative without also possessing an insight on ancient Egyptian history, anymore than you can presume to attend a collegiate-level seminar without first achieving proficiency in a prerequisite intermediary curriculum. For those presently aspiring to attain this mandatory level of scholarship, the immediate content may prove to be unintelligible to you. Therefore, this particular article is more intended for the so-called Accredited & Reputable Bible Scholar. Let me, then, proceed by establishing a mutually agreed upon premise from which to build the substance of this presentation.

1. When the Pyramid Texts were inscribed, containing the spells that guaranteed eternal life, immortality of the soul was the exclusive privilege of Pharaoh only.

2. After the successful completion of the required rituals, Pharaoh was then transformed into the god Osiris, who represented Pharaoh resurrected in the Afterlife.

3. When Pharaoh was alive in this world, though, he was identified as the god Horus.

4. Therefore, an Osiris is actually a dead Horus whose been resurrected.

5. The god Horus was originally a lunar deity. We know this not only because there is textual evidence supporting this claim, but also because the wadjet --- the symbolic eye to which he was associated --- was also used to denote a sum of fractions which, logically, reflected various phases of the moon. Therefore...

6. Osiris is, likewise, originally a lunar deity.

7. After the death of Pharaoh-Horus, the heir to the throne, the new incumbent Horus, was obligated to institute a cult for his dead father, thereby assuring a continued communication between himself, along with other immediate family members, and the deceased father. In other words, the new Horus & his immediate family are in the unique position of communicating with none other than God himself. Do you agree?

That being said, let us now apply King's Theophoric Theory and analyze the interaction between the Biblical Moses and the Biblical God. Though KTT relegates the Biblical Moses to the realm of fiction, we may yet glean a more realistic insight on the God itself. That which is "existing" perpetually ("'On' The Being") as divinity, is juxtaposed to that which is "born" (Msi/Moses) or "coming into being" by that state of eternal existence. The human Moses is a bio-transcendental extension of that Divine Beingness.

When the first group of Hebrew captives arrive in Egypt, the cults of at least 2 Moseses are already flourishing. For those captives who became exposed to them, it marked a complete segment of that historical experience, in comparison to the fragmented perspectives relayed in the disjointed Biblical Narrative. By conventional dating, they will have arrived in Egypt between c. 1427 and 1401, during the reign of Amenhotep II. But it will be years later --- perhaps centuries --- when it will be written that 70 of them, during a time of severe famine, and at the behest of a close relative, sought refuge in Egypt. And it will be no less than 90% fiction. For during that period when 70 foreigners were actually recorded as having been taken to the stronghold of Amen, the Biblical Joseph didn't exist. Nor did these Hebrews have to wait for the Biblical Moses to hear of The Being, for the god was already popular. These Hebrews will build On --- the southern one --- the one better known as Thebes. That particular episode will be conflated with the building of Pi-Ramese some 150 later! What can explain the unrelenting longevity of a story which, by this time, has evolved into an incredible fusion of myth, romance, and historical fiction? It's the cult of Ahmose I, of course, whose devoted followers are still being recorded in the days of Ramses The Great (M10)!

TO BE CONTINUED ....