Another interesting though not very likely similarity is of Goshen with Shent? (Gerald Massey says Khent "upper (Egypt)" also read Shent &/or Fent.) In...
Sean ... Yes, Egyptian sn means 'circuit', and this word is sometimes used to describe Re's passage both across the sky by day and through the underworld by...
Jon ... Does this bring us anywhere near modern Qos (ancient gs(y))? Schumacher lists this as her primary reason for not identifying the gsm of the north with...
... From a Biblical point of view, I'm perceiving geographical limitations for "Goshen" even if other cities are similarly named. Key texts would be: Gen....
If Rameses is Pi-Ramses-Meri-Amun (anachronism) then why didn't they include the Pi- since they did with Pithom (and also with Pathros/Atur-res and perhaps...
Larry ... the land of Rameses, ... Why? Given that the lands of Ramses and of Goshen are nowhere mentioned in the same verse, coupled with the fact that this...
Sean ... Good point. ... Then there's the images of the god Bes found upon pithara at Kuntillet Ajrud, himself a deity believed to originate south of Egypt...
Ever: Good grief! Who would dare have the name of Son of Re but the Pharaoh! This was not a land owner but a reference to Rameses the Pharaoh. Holly ... ...
Bergen: Looked up the Biblical Hebrew word for Ramses and the word is Ramses-Egyptian origin. Holly ... http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/AncientBibleHistory ...
Bergen: I looked up the Hebbrew. Holly ... http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/AncientBibleHistory ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AncientBibleHistory/join ......
Thanks Bergen: There are pharaohs with name Ramses before 19th dyn in some other ancient/mediaeval king lists published by Herman Hoeh which you can see at: ...
sorry the Septuagint and Hebrew verses didn't post right (I cut and pasted them from Logos/Libronix bible software). Here they are typed out. Exod 1:11 LXX -...
... I wasn't aware that had been suggested. I thought Pelusium came from "Pelus" meaning "mud". Where do we come across "Pr-Swn"? The name Swn was also the...
... I came across a problem some years ago which made me look out for issues of confusion between "k/g" and "s". In the story of Sinuhe, we read of his journey...
... the land ... region. ... Rameses ... landowner in ... pharaoh is ... an issue ... I like that, that is brilliant.. Was not Ramesses I a general under...
... I always took the dropping of the prefix "Pr" (in Pr-Ramesses) to have been a copyists error. But also, I have never taken Pr-Ramesses (House of Ramesses)...
Sean ... An excellent observation. And Greek kai means 'and also', so "Pithom and Ramses and On (which is Heliopolis)". ... Hebrew r'mss appears twice in...
Tracey ... The author forgot to mention the Sumerian etymology, namely 'hero'. I must say, I like the observation that Rameses may not name the name of a city,...
Jon ... I thought you suggested it. Perhaps I got my wires crossed somewhere. ... Yes, I know that. It's looking increasingly like I got my wires crossed...
Jon ... Do we have any evidence that any other cities in Egypt, whose names followed the formula Pr+Name, were named after humans (most places whose names...
How about another type of meaning for Moses, "out of the water." If one considers the leader a "captain of the ship of state," Moses pulled out of his little...
I do believe it is common to recongize the name "Moses"as Egyptian, a name that occurs in many Egyptian names. Further, Moses was living in Egypt as an...
