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Ianhama of El Amarna as Na’aman the Syrian

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     That a transformation of some kind had come over this Iaanhamu Velikovsky inferred from Rib-Addi’s revised attitude towards him; an attitude that had changed dramatically in the course of Rib-Addi’s reign.     Amongst Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky’s intriguing match-ups of historical figures in the C14th BC El Amarna (EA) series with C9th BC biblical characters (in Ages in Chaos I, 1952), was the variously spelled Ianhama (Ianhamu, Iaanhamu, Yanhamu), identified as the leprous Syrian captain, Na’aman.     In my university thesis (2007) I wrote a section on this (Volume One, pp. 103-1o8). Here is a part of it:   …. Velikovsky referred to a couple of facts in the Naaman story that he said seemed “somewhat strange” ….   In … the [Naaman] story, two facts are somewhat strange. First, inasmuch as Ben-Hadad himself was at the head of the thirty-two captains of his army, why, in the story of...
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How might Hazael, elected in the Sinai Commission, have justified his murder of King Ben-Hadad?

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     “ Then Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master. When Ben-Hadad asked, ‘What did Elisha say to you?’ Hazael replied, ‘He told me that you would certainly recover’. But the next day he took a thick cloth, soaked it in water and spread it over the king’s face, so that he died. Then Hazael succeeded him as king”.   2 Kings 8:4-15     Death of Ben-Hadad   Hazael, a Syrian captain, was the right-hand man of King Ben-Hadad. But he had no apparent aspirations to the throne, and, as a commoner, he certainly had no likely prospects of becoming the king of Syria.   When the prophet Elisha came to Damascus at the time when the Syrian king was ill, he encountered Hazael, who had been sent by Ben-Hadad to enquire about the king’s health prospects (2 Kings 8:7-10).   Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram [Syria] was ill. When the king was told, ‘The man of...
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