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M*W: I don't know anything about King David's hair color, I guess only his hairdresser knows for sure. But I do have a bit of information on King David and who he really was. According to Ahmed Osman in Moses and Aknenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus, 2002, indicates that King David was the Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Tuthmosis ruled from 1490-1436 BC, and was believed to be the great grandfather of Amenhotep III, also known as Solomon by the Jews. "Solomon" is an interesting name, because it means "Sol-o-Mon," or "Son-of-Man." Allegedly, Solomon was the grandfather of Amenhotep IV or better known as Moses. Although Moses had several names and titles, this is the most familiar Israelite name, even though Moses was no Israelite.
Some additional citations by Osman:
"It became possible to create matching chronologies from Abraham to Moses on the one hand, and from Tuthmosis III, the sixth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty, to Seti I, the second ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty."
"The king was regarded as the physical son of Amun. As Tiye was not the heiress when she and Amenhotep III were married, she could not be regarded as the consort of Amun and her son, Amenhotep IV (Moses), could not be considered the physical son of Amun. In the Eighteenth Dynasty that meant he would not be accepted as the legal heir and king. This same situation faced an earlier Pharaoh, Tuthmosis III, whose mother was not the heiress when she married. On that occasioin an adoption ritual took place at Karnak where the image of Amun, carried by the priests, chose Tuthmosis III as Amun's son. (My note: Amun was the patron deity of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the cult of Re, the sun-god, whose center of worship was at Heliopolis, north of modern Cairo.)
"Re was looked upon as the lord of the universe, the giver of all life, and the king ruled according to Re's divine plan by virtue of being his son."
"The priests, and those of Amun in particular, became increasingly powerful from the time of Tuthmosis III (King David). This king was not the son of the queen, although he was the king's son. So, in order to have him accepted as his heir, his father arranged a ceremony in Karnak where the image of Amun (sun god), carried by the god's priests, chose young Tuthmosis (David) to be the son of Amun (Son of the Sun), a kind of adoption by the god (Amun) which ensured his right to the throne. Tuthmosis III (King David) turned out to be the mightiest of all Egyptian Pharaohs, rulling for fifty-four years and fighting many wars in Asia to consolidate the empire."
"The task of establishing the identity of the David from whose House the promised Messiah would one day appear has been complicated by the fact that the Old Testament provides us with two contrasting characters for David. One is a mighty warrior king, who fought a series of major wars in Asia and established an empire that stretched from the Nile to the Euphrates; the other tribal king, who ruled over the traditional Promised Land--from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south of the Israel-Judaean upland--and spent much of his life in a running conflict witht he Philistines. A further complication is that biblical scholars have reached the conclusion that the warrior David established his massive empire during the years of the tenth century BC."
"Acceptance of this dating, plus some confused archaelogical evidence, has led scholars to identify the tribal David (1000-960 BC) as the biblical King David."
(My note: David was known as the greatest king of the ancient world).
"David is dwd in the Bible, which, in transliteration into Egyptian, becomes twt, the first part of the name of Tuthmosis III."
"Historical and archaeological evidence, as we shall see, also makes it clear that the David who re-established this vast empire in the fifteenth century BC cannot have been the same David who is said to have become involved in recurrent conflict with the Philistones five centuries later. Apart from anything else, Tuthmosis III had been dead for the better part of three hundred years before the mass invasion of the coastal areas of Canaan by the Philistines--the Peoples of the Sea--in the middle of the twelfth century BC, brought Egyptian control of the territory to an end."
"What persuaded the biblical scribes to take two characters who lived five centuries apart and treat them as one? The clue lies, I think, in the answer to another question. Who was the father of Isaac?"
(My note: Ahmed Osman indicates that Abraham was a contemporary of Tuthmosis III (David) and goes on to say:
"The Old Testament assures us repeatedly that Abraham was the father of Isaac and also the founder of the twelve tribes of Israel. I believe Abraham was merely the adoptive father: the child's real father--and the founder of the twelve tribes of Israel--was Tuthmosis III."
(My note: Akhenaten (Moses) is credited as the originator of the monotheistic god. However, Moses worshipped the sun god and formed this monotheistic religious concept after this).
Osman, Ahmed: Moses and Aknenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus, Bear & Company, Rochester, Vermont, 2002.
Osman, Ahmed: Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs: The Essene Revelations on the Historical Jesus, Bear & Company, Rochester, Vermont, 2004.
