New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) — John Shaqi
New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3)Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Religion
New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3)
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Book of Mormon; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
Sayce, for instance, has
the following upon the existence of such a line of kings ruling at
Jerusalem as Melchizedek is described to be in Genesis:
"Among the cuneiform tablets found at Tel el-Amarna in Upper Egypt,
are letters to the Pharaoh from Ebed-tob, king of Jerusalem,
written a century before the time of Moses. In them he describes
himself as appointed to the throne, not by inheritance from his
father or mother (compare Heb. 7:3), but by the arm of 'the Mighty
King,' i. e. of the god of whose temple stood on Mount Moriah. He
must therefore have been a priest-king like Melchizedek. The name
of Jerusalem is written Ura-Salim, 'the city of the god of peace,'
and it was the capital of a territory which extended southward to
Kellah. In the inscriptions of Rameses II and Rameses III, Salem is
mentioned among the conquests of the Egyptian kings."
The same writer sees confirmation of the history of Joseph, son of
Jacob, in the following circumstance:
The "Story of the Two Brothers," an Egyptian romance written for
the son of the Pharaoh of the oppression, contains an episode very
similar to the Biblical account of Joseph's treatment by Potiphar's
wife. Potiphar and Potipherah are the Egyptian Pa-tu-pa-Ra, "the
gift of the Sun-god." The name given to Joseph, Zaphnath-paaneah,
(Gen. 41:45), is probably the Egyptian Zaf-nti-pa-ankh, "nourisher
of the living one," i. e. of the Pharaoh. There are many instances
in the inscriptions of foreigners in Egypt receiving Egyptian
names, and rising to the highest offices of state.
The story of the Exodus as related in the Bible is supposed to find
confirmation in the following:
"The cuneiform tablets found at Tel el-Amarna, in Upper Egypt, have
shown that in the latter days of the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty,
when the Pharaoh had become a convert to an Asiatic form of faith,
the highest offices of state were absorbed by foreigners, most of
whom were Canaanites. In the national reaction which followed, the
foreigners were expelled, exterminated, or reduced to serfdom;
while a new dynasty, the nineteenth, was founded by Rameses I. He,
therefore, must be the new king, the builder of Pa-Tum or Pithom
(now Tel el-Maskhuteh, near Ismailia), as has been proved by Dr.
Naville's researches, and consequently, as Egyptian students had
long maintained he must have been the Pharaoh of the oppression."
The occupancy of the land of Goshen by the Israelites who, it will be
remembered, were shepherds, is supposed to receive confirmation in the
following:
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