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Summary: Freud had this idea.
Review: Sigmund Freud also presumed that Moses was an Egyptian in his "MOSES AND MONOTHEISM', sold here on Amazon. He compared many of the laws written by Moses, and found they were practiced by the Egyptians previously, such as circumcision and the dietary laws. There is credibility to all this. If one believes in UFOs, there is credibility that G-d visited Moses and others in a UFO! The burning bush was a glowing one. The holy ark was a telephone booth to communicate with the UFO..."Face the cherubim (speakers) when you speak to me, and My voice will come from between them when I speak". A mono signal is heard dead center between 2 stereo speakers. Moses was with G-d on a rock and G-d says: "You shall see my back but I will put my hand upon your eyes to you cannot my face for no man shall see my face and live." G-d followed the Israelites in a cloud by day and glow of light by night (UFO). Ezekiel met G-d in a helicopter. Don't believe it? Read the 1st 2 pages of Ezekiel! G-d sits under a lighted glass dome on a metal "bird" with wheels and wings ("looked like ice with brightness around it and a man on a throne inside."). One can presume anything one wants. One theory may be as preposterous as the next ... or as logical!
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Summary: Freud had this idea.
Review: Sigmund Freud also presumed that Moses was an Egyptian in his "MOSES AND MONOTHEISM', sold here on Amazon. He compared many of the laws written by Moses, and found they were practiced by the Egyptians previously, such as circumcision and the dietary laws. There is credibility to all this. If one believes in UFOs, there is credibility that G-d visited Moses and others in a UFO! The burning bush was a glowing one. The holy ark was a telephone booth to communicate with the UFO..."Face the cherubim (speakers) when you speak to me, and My voice will come from between them when I speak". A mono signal is heard dead center between 2 stereo speakers. Moses was with G-d on a rock and G-d says: "You shall see my back but I will put my hand upon your eyes to you cannot my face for no man shall see my face and live." G-d followed the Israelites in a cloud by day and glow of light by night (UFO). Ezekiel met G-d in a helicopter. Don't believe it? Read the 1st 2 pages of Ezekiel! G-d sits under a lighted glass dome on a metal "bird" with wheels and wings ("looked like ice with brightness around it and a man on a throne inside."). One can presume anything one wants. One theory may be as preposterous as the next ... or as logical!
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Summary: Parallels myths of ancient Israel with those of Egypt.
Review: The author approaches histhesis from two directions. First by matching Egyptian dates with chronologies of the Bible, in an exercise that often appears to be tenuous and exhaustive. But combined with the much more intriguing second half of the book, which deals with comparative mythology, creates a very convincing point of approach for understanding the source of Biblical myths. By the end, I was glad I read this book.
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Summary: Parallels myths of ancient Israel with those of Egypt.
Review: The Bible Myth is a compelling theory and Mr. Greenberg's research was quite thought provoking. I am a student of history and probably have a better than average knowledge of Egyptian history, yet I found myself quite lost on several occasions. It would be to the reader's advatage to have a general knowledge of Egyptian history especially between the Pharoahs of Akahanaten and Ramases II. If Bible or Egyptian studies interest you this is a truly fascinating book!
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Summary: Greenberg takes the Mystery out of the biblical Moses
Review: There really IS a lot of mystery about the biblical Moses. For example,...Why did Moses even GO into the desert for 40 years????? It never made sense to me.
Mr. Greenberg postulates a reasonable answer to my question.
He postulates that Moses was the High Priest of Pharoah Akhnaten's new monotheistic religion,...Aten worship. Historians know that the old Amun worship was persecuted by Pharoah Akhnaten,...and when Akhnaten died the Amun priests returned to power once more and persecuted the Aten worshippers,...probably enslaving them.According to Greenberg,..(in MY words) Moses went into the desert for the same reason that Ayatollah Khomeini went to France for 15 years,....Both had religio-politico reasons for being a persona non grata in his homeland.
And BOTH, after their periods of exile, RETURNED to their homelands,...but here is where their experiences diverge. Whereas the Ayatollah succeeded in re-establishing himself at home and became prominent once more,...the opposite happened to Moses. Moses returned to Egypt, where he used to be High Priest of the Aten Monotheitic religion, but faced hostility and failure,...to the extent that he once more had to leave Egypt,...this time taking his people with him saying "Let my people go." Greenberg goes quite deeply into Egyptian history showing how the biblical Moses existed at the very same time that Akhnaten. He also mentions the lack of archelogical evidence to support the biblical story of a "Hebrew" people from Palestine having been enslaved in Egypt. This is a very interesting book with lots of historical back-up. Unfortunately a Peter Temes of the NW Times gave the book the kind of review one would expect from someone who is not able to let go of bible stories he has known from childhood. He just summarily pooh-poohs the whole idea,...a not very intelligent approach. I would certainly recommend buying and studying this book. It will keep you busy for quite a few nights,....that is,...if you are sufficiently open minded. :-)
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Summary: Greenberg takes the Mystery out of the biblical Moses
Review: There really IS a lot of mystery about the biblical Moses. For example,...Why did Moses even GO into the desert for 40 years????? It never made sense to me.
Mr. Greenberg postulates a reasonable answer to my question.
He postulates that Moses was the High Priest of Pharoah Akhnaten's new monotheistic religion,...Aten worship. Historians know that the old Amun worship was persecuted by Pharoah Akhnaten,...and when Akhnaten died the Amun priests returned to power once more and persecuted the Aten worshippers,...probably enslaving them. According to Greenberg,..(in MY words) Moses went into the desert for the same reason that Ayatollah Khomeini went to France for 15 years,....Both had religio-politico reasons for being a persona non grata in his homeland.
And BOTH, after their periods of exile, RETURNED to their homelands,...but here is where their experiences diverge. Whereas the Ayatollah succeeded in re-establishing himself at home and became prominent once more,...the opposite happened to Moses. Moses returned to Egypt, where he used to be High Priest of the Aten Monotheitic religion, but faced hostility and failure,...to the extent that he once more had to leave Egypt,...this time taking his people with him saying "Let my people go." Greenberg goes quite deeply into Egyptian history showing how the biblical Moses existed at the very same time that Akhnaten. He also mentions the lack of archelogical evidence to support the biblical story of a "Hebrew" people from Palestine having been enslaved in Egypt. This is a very interesting book with lots of historical back-up. Unfortunately a Peter Temes of the NW Times gave the book the kind of review one would expect from someone who is not able to let go of bible stories he has known from childhood. He just summarily pooh-poohs the whole idea,...a not very intelligent approach. I would certainly recommend buying and studying this book. It will keep you busy for quite a few nights,....that is,...if you are sufficiently open minded. :-)
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