Re: Religion or Spirituality
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:17 am
The historical and archaeological evidence is not consistent with the written accounts.
" Even Hebrew writing can be traced indirectly to Egypt. Hebrew script is based on the script of the Phoenicians, who in turn borrowed extensively from the Proto-Canaanite and Proto-Sinaitic alphabets, which in fact developed from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
At the time the seals and corresponding bullae of Hezekiah were being produced, many other examples of Egyptian influence were present in Judah. Egyptian hieratic numbers are used on Hebrew dome-shaped weights and ostraca.
The Egyptian ankh is widely used on seals. The Egyptian god Bes is frequently painted on storage jars, as at Kuntillet 'Ajrud, or appears as an amulet; later Bes is found on fourth-century BCE Samarian coins. The Judahite Ashtoret or Asherah wears an Egyptian hairstyle. Sphinxes and griffins found in Israel wear crowns of Egypt's upper and lower kingdoms.
An oblong frame resembling that of an Egyptian cartouche (a sovereign's name enclosed in an oval) appears on several seals and bullae - but unlike those in Egypt, it contains no royal name.
Winged sun disks, similar to those on our bullae, appear on three Israelite Hebrew seals of the eighth century BCE. This emblem is found even more often in Phoenician iconography ".
Robert Deutsh Phd Tel Aviv University
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