Dick said:
In Egypt, the pyramids of kings Mer-ne-Re and Nefer-ka-Re were inscribed with a dedication dating to about 2400 BC, centuries before Abraham, and many centuries before Moses. The text speaks of a first creation and a deified "Atum" who was on a primeval hill arising "out of the waters of chaos." Among those "whom Atum begot," according to the inscription, is one named "Seth."
Either this is an extra-biblical confirmation of their ancestry inscribed by Semitic stonecutters on Egyptian pyramids, or else it is an incredible coincidence.
Why does it have to be either? It seems to me to make more sense that this is a story that Moses was well familiar with while in captivity. It is this story and others that he cobbled together in a monotheistic tome, that we call Genesis.
Received on Sat Apr 15 18:18:18 2006
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