Prince_James;1277611]Medicine Woman:
I thought the Sea Peoples were unindentified?
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M*W: I'm not an expert on the "Sea Peoples," but I'll keep an eye out for more information on them.
Also wow! But I cannot find a single bit of information about Sinube. Is Sinube known as another name?
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M*W: Come to think of it, this is the first time I have seen the name Sinube. Ahmed Osman states in Christiainity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion, Chapter 2 (The House of David): "The story of the epic duel between David and Goliath, inserted to enhance tribal David's reputation as a "man of war," is an adaptation of a much admired Egyptian literary work,
The Autobiography of Sinube, describing eents that took place 1,000 years earlier, and it would certainly have been familiar to the Israelites from the earlier period of their Sojourn, the four generations they spent in Egypt during the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries BC."
"Sinuhe was a courtier in the service of Nefru, daughter of Amenemhat I, the founder of the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty in the twentieth century BC. The form in which his autobiography was cast--the story of his sudden flight from Egypt, his wanderings, his battle with "a mighty Canaanite man" l ike Goliath and his eventual return to be buried in the land of his birth--makes it clear that it was inscribed originally in his actual tomb. Many copies of the story, which is recognized as being based on fact (see below), were found subsequently, dating from the twentieth century BC. (when the events actually occurred) until as late as the Twenty-First Dynasty in the eleventh century BC. It was a popular tale in ancient Egypt, taught as a literary example to students, and there can be no doubt that all educated persons in Egypt, no matter what their ethnic background, would have been familiar with its contents."
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Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs, I have given a summary of the evidence indicating that this is the correct conclusion that
The Autobiography of Sinuhe survived in the memories of the Israelites when Moses led their Exodus to the Promised Land in the fourteenth century BC to escape from the harsh oppression of their Egyptian masters. (The Exodus has subsequently been disproven by biblical archeologists). Later, in the sixth century BC, the Hebrew scribes, writing the Book of Samuel during the Israelite 70-year-exile in Babylonia-- which had invaded Judaea and destroyed the Jerusalem Temple--and anxious to enhance the image of the tribal David in order to make it possible for readers to accept that it was he who established the great empire stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, included Sinuhe's encounter with a "mighty Canaanite man."
Very intriguing on the Solomonic issues. However, it still doesn't address why Abraham is held to be in Ur. Moreover, the connection with Ur seems more reasonable, considering the Mesopatamian nature of the Jewish God and much of the Bible, which takes its cues significantly from Sumerian mythology and deities.
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M*W: I just read something today regarding Abraham and his Sojourn in Ur. I'll have to address that at another time. It's late.
Well, it certainly is much food for thought. Specifically the discrepancy the author points out in the nature of David as a tribal warlord and a warrior-prince.
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M*W: The earlier versions of these bible stories can be confusing at best. Now the stories of Sinuhe implies that the David and Goliath story might have been plagarized from Sinuhe's autobiography. Or it could imply that David was also called Sinuhe! It's all very intriguiging, and it's hard to keep up with all the characters!