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Ptahhotep not Joseph but Moses

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by Damien F. Mackey Ptahhotep was, just like Moses, the Vizier and Chief Judge in ancient Egypt. Revisionists, myself included, have eagerly fastened on to the educated Vizier and sage writer of Maxims, PTAHHOTEP - associated with 110 years of age - as the biblical Joseph. In Papyrus Prisse (col. 19), Ptahhotep refers to his “110 years of life”, which number accords with that reached by Joseph (Genesis 50:26): “So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten”. It became something of a golden number for good life expectancy in ancient Egypt. An inscription on a seated statue of Amenhotep son of Hapu, for instance, states that he had reached the age of 80 (extraordinarily old for an ancient Egyptian) and wished to attain 110 years (the perfect lifespan). The figure of 110, plus seeming uncertainty as to which dynasty Ptahhotep had belonged, with both the Third (Joseph-Imhotep’s dynasty) and the Fifth, being mentioned, gave me the wriggle room, so I thought, to hold fast to ...
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Hebrew influence upon Amenhotep son of Hapu

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by Damien F. Mackey The enigmatic Amenhotep son of Hapu, who had hoped to attain the age of 110 (that reached by Joseph of Egypt), has even been identified (wrongly) as this Joseph. His career in Egypt seems to have been closely modelled on that of Senenmut (my Solomon). Like King Solomon, he was an educated Steward. Amenhotep son of Hapu was a highly influential figure, whose fame reached down even into Ptolemaïc times: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amenhotep-son-of-Hapu Amenhotep, son of Hapu, was a high official of the reign of Amenhotep III of ancient Egypt (reigned 1390–53 bce) [sic], who was greatly honoured by the king within his lifetime and was deified more than 1,000 years later during the Ptolemaic era. Amenhotep rose through the ranks of government service, becoming scribe of the recruits, a military office, under Amenhotep III. While in the Nile River delta, Amenhotep was charged with positioning troops at checkpoints on the branches of the N...
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Akhnaton not obscure before he became Pharaoh

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by Damien F. Mackey “Egyptologists know very little about Akhenaten's life as prince Amenhotep”. Based on my article: Akhnaton one of the most influential men who ever lived (3) Akhnaton one of the most influential men who ever lived | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu pharaoh Amenhotep (so-called III) ‘the Magnificent’ was a mighty emperor, who ruled over both Syria and Egypt. ‘The Magnificent’ was the biblical king, Ben-Hadad I, of the C9th BC (conventional dating), whom Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky had well identified with the king of Amurru (Syria), Abdi-ashirta, of the El Amarna [EA] letters. This prominent king, thought to have been a vassal of Egypt, was in fact a master-king, with 32 other kings in tow. I have identified Akhnaton biblically with Na’aman the Syrian, the leper who was cured owing to the intervention of the prophet Elisha. Due to Na’aman’s total conversion to Yahwism, the Lord would order the prophet Elijah to anoint him as “king over Aram [Syria]” (I ...
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Moses in Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty

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by Damien F. Mackey Moses was the Twelfth Dynasty’s Vizier and Chief Judge, Mentuhotep (also Sinuhe, and, perhaps, Iny). Recently I wrote that: Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty oppressed Israel (2) Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty oppressed Israel That, though, is only part of the story, because, with the necessary folding of the so-called ‘Middle’ Kingdom into the Old Kingdom (suggested by Dr. Donovan Courville, The Exodus Problem and its Ramifications, 1971), the oppressing Twelfth Dynasty must have also its Old Kingdom manifestations: as the Fourth, the Fifth, and the Sixth dynasties. The first Oppressor Pharaoh, the dynastic founding “new king” of Exodus 1:8, was, all at once: Snofru-Khufu (Cheops) – Fourth Dynasty; Djedkare Isesi – Fifth Dynasty; Teti (Merenre) – Sixth Dynasty; Amenemhet – Twelfth Dynasty. The second Oppressor Pharaoh, the one who “tried to kill Moses” (Exodus 2:15), was all at once: “Chenephres” (Eusebius-Artapanus); Khafra (Chephren) – Fourth Dynasty; Una...
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Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty oppressed Israel

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by Damien F. Mackey Admittedly Moses - not a native Egyptian, but a Hebrew fully educated in Egyptian wisdom (Acts 7:22): “Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action” - has been most difficult for historians to identify in the Egyptian records. Impossible for conventional historians (thanks to the likes of Eduard Meyer), who will always be searching in the wrong historico-archaeological period, but also difficult for revisionists. WORLD INTO WHICH MOSES WAS BORN As we draw near to the birth of Moses, the ancient world (at least in the environs of Egypt) enters into a sophisticated new phase of pyramid building, travel, maritime ventures, harbours, art and architecture, and the influx of foreign workers. The Early Bronze Age II will continue on into the Early Bronze III, which two eras often tend not to be clearly distinguished – except that EBIII is known to have ended in ‘collapse’. Thus: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
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Realisation of who was the Egyptianised Moses

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by Damien F. Mackey “[Wisdom] entered the soul of a servant of the Lord, and withstood dread kings with wonders and signs”. Wisdom 10:16 ------------------------------------------------------- Important Note: Previously, I have been adamant that Moses was not a king (Pharaoh), having recently written: “… another legend that has Moses as “a king” is misleading. Though great, Moses was definitely subservient to the two pharaohs who had the power of life and death over him. Indeed, “Chenephres” will even seek the life of Moses …” (Exodus 2:15; cf. 4:19). Moses, “… mighty in his words and deeds” (Acts 7:22), was the Vizier and Chief Judge in Egypt (cf. Exodus 2:14: ‘… Who made you ruler and judge over us?’), and we have found him exercising this twin office of enormous significance both as Weni (Uni) of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty, and as Mentuhotep (also Sinuhe, Iny?), of Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty. However, in recent weeks I have stumbled across a handful of new identifications ...
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Was Moses indeed a King of Egypt – albeit briefly?

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by Damien F. Mackey There was … Kagemni, which name occurs in both the Fourth and Sixth dynasties. Egyptologists, with their lengthy chronological separation of the Fourth from the Sixth dynasty must assume that two Viziers Kagemni are involved here. No need for that if, as I think, the Fourth and Sixth dynasties were contemporaneous. My search for the historical Moses • Phase One Initially, inspired by a legend that Moses was “a king” (was this clue from Artapanus?), I searched for him amongst whichever pharaohs I considered to be chronologically reasonable for Moses. This took up a lot of time, with no positive result. • Phase Two Much later, after I had to my satisfaction identified Moses as Vizier and Chief Judge of Egypt (cf. Exodus 2:14) - a high office, but clearly subordinate to Pharaoh - I came to reject any notion that Moses could have been a King (Pharaoh). And I decried legends that, whilst often helpful, can sometimes be highly misleading. See e.g. my...
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