FUNDAY

MOSES
(Ev said Moses is a myth, so I searched for articles that agree)

Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... that such traditions as those surrounding the Hebrew exodus from Egypt represent genuine history rather than sacred history as understood by such scholars as Eliade and Dumézil; i.e ., ancient cosmology subsequently translated into tribal "history." Researchers who would attempt to reconstruct a viable chronology of the ancient world based upon the stories surrounding such figures as ____Moses, Abraham, and Samson remind me a good deal of the folks hiking up Mt. Ararat in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the ark. Simply put: they're barking up the wrong mountain. Yours truly, finally, capped off the weekend with an overview of the planetary- debate from Worlds in Collision to The Saturn

Astronomical Dating and Calendrics [Journals] [Aeon]
... most often is that of the Biblical Abraham. He is said to have arrived in Mesopotamia from Chaldea, (4 ) visited Egypt, (5 ) and was thus in a position able to provide confirmation concerning the age of developed cultures in both regions. Since the lineage supplied by Genesis places Abraham's birth at more than 500 years before ____Moses, the patriarch would have left a flourishing Mesopotamian city around 2100 BCE to acquaint himself with a similarly flourishing Egypt a few decades later. Following the elimination of Abraham as a historical figure- a process that commenced in the late 19th century and was only completed in the 70's of the 20th, when it was established that Abrahamic lore

A RENAISSANCE SATURN [Journals] [Aeon]
... fact that Bacchus as an infant is more typically represented in the arms of Mercury, renders either interpretation of these figures unlikely. Nevertheless, these stories share a common narrative concerning a divine child who has been rescued in order to fulfill a significant destiny. As a category, this group could accommodate the Old Testament story of the finding of ____Moses by pharaoh's daughter, as well as its New Testament counterpart, the flight into Egypt. Typologically, the sixteenth-century category of the divine infant included another significant narrative whose allusive potential and rich ambiguity of meaning not only paralleled that of Correggio's paired figures but once again related them to the realm of ideas from which the three preceding lunettes derived

The Israelite Conquest of Canaan [Journals] [Aeon]
... History "There was no real Exodus, there was no real wilderness wandering, and there was no sojourn at Kadesh-Barnea." (1 ) This statement of the eminent excavator of Gezer/Israel sums up mainstream perplexity about one of the most famous stories mankind preserved from generation to generation. Long ago more than one scholar recognized that the ____Moses legends originated around the priestly site in Midian and only later were attached to the legends of the Exodus and the birth of a childlike hero. (2 ) This knowledge is not opposed to the tradition of catastrophically-uprooted tribes, arriving from Egypt and other regions closer to the land of Canaan to take over prior Canaanite settlements. It will

Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... plains surrounded by lakes and pools. Such primary deities go by many names, either coming from, or going toward, watery seas, as did Kukulcan of the Mayas or Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs. And, likewise in Egyptian myth, is Osiris, whose funerary boat was associated with the Nile. Or even that of the biblical newborn ____Moses, whose reed boat was found in the rushes of the Nile, and whose name means simply "child" or "son." But, unmentioned by Hancock, in the Asiatic sphere there is the equivalent Iranian Kai Khusrau, who is associated with Lake Vurukasha (6 )- a watery designation bearing a remarkable homophonic similarity to

Velikovsky in America [Journals] [Aeon]
... earth tremble.- Guglielmo Ferrero American Exodus In December 16, 1937, Simon Velikovsky died. Despite the intellectual gifts and forceful personality his son had displayed on numerous occasions, Immanuel Velikovsky, already in his early forties, had accomplished little. That same year, Sigmund Freud began publishing in serial form what would be his final book, ____Moses and Monotheism. The book's central theses were that ____Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian; that he did not originate the monotheistic principle that is at the heart of Judaism but borrowed the concept from the heretical Pharaoh Akhnaton; and that his followers, "a throng of culturally inferior immigrants", (1 ) did not even create the

Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [Aeon]
... have been made painfully familiar in his secular education. Spanning some 100 years, it challenged the authenticity of every section of the Jewish Bible by arguing that its major components were copies of earlier Babylonian or Canaanite prototypes and that its present form was a craftily-selected composite of various sometimes-contradictory earlier sources, rather than an original document dictated by God to ____Moses. So extreme was this attack upon the Jewish Bible that, to quote a leading commentary at the turn of the century: Religious terms, ideas, institutions, once supposed to be peculiar to Israel, are now seen to be common to them and other nations; in some cases, moreover, priority clearly does not lie with