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  • Paperback: 94 pages
  • Publisher: Janus Publishing Co (Mar 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857563506
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857563504
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 14.2 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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A close examination of the history of Egypt and Israel, which, among other things, shows how Abraham, father of the Israelites, is related in terms of character and personality to Menes, the first pharoah of Egypt.

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The histories of Egypt and Israel rewritten
Egypt and Israel are close neighbours, and according to biblical testimony the two nations had close and important contacts with each other for many centuries. Yet the Egyptologists, it is claimed, can find no trace of the great events and characters of biblical history that played a role in Egypt's story. The author reveals the startling reason for this. The two histories have been pieced together wrongly. Egyptian chronology is a thousand years out of synchronisation with regard to that of Israel. When the two are brought together the results are dramatic, to say the least. Thus Abraham's tribe are revealed to be the Mesopotamian culture-bearers who introduced high civilisation the the Nile valley; whilst the great seer Joseph is revealed to be one and the same as Imhotep, the vizier of king Djoser who saved Egypt from a seven year famine and designed the first pyramid at Sakkara.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Biblical history from a different perspective, 25 Nov 2005
As the title of this book suggests, the author has simultaneously traced the origins of Egyptian and Hebrew history, and what he finds can only be described as sensational. Conventional history says that these two neighbouring peoples had very little impact upon each other, in spite of the fact that the Bible claims intimate contacts between the two. Sweeney, following a line of enquiry first proposed by Immanuel Velikovsky, finds that the problem lies in chronology, or rather a false chronology. Egyptian history, he says, is "out of sync" with regard to that of Egypt by a thousand years. And so, for example, archaeology shows that the earliest Egyptian high culture was heavily influenced by folk from Mesopotamia. These people established the first dynasty, whose first pharaoh Menes, named after the phallic god Min, established the cult of circumcision in Egypt. In the same way, the Bible records a great migration from Mesopotamia to Egypt at the time of Abraham. Hebrew traditions told how Abraham taught the Egyptians the rudiments of civilisation. Furthermore, Abraham's name "Father of Many" implies a link with phallicism, as does his initiation of the custom of circumcision. Taking this into account, one might expect that historians would have linked the legend of Abraham with the very real Mesopotamian culture-bearing settlement in Egypt discovered by archaeology. But the connection was never made, because the chronology held that Egypt's first dynasty flourished a thousand years before Abraham.
This thousand-year discrepancy occurs again and again. So, for example, a few generations after Menes, Egyptian tradition tells of a great famine lasting seven years, a famine which was alleviated only after the great seer Imhotep interpretetd a strange dream which had disturbed pharaoh Djoser. In the same way, biblical tradition tells of a Hebrew youth named Joseph, who became vizier to the king of Egypt after correctly interpreting a strange dream which had disturbed the monarch. The dream, it transpired, warned of a seven-year famine to come. Scholars of course were astonished by the similarities between the two traditions, but never identified Imhotep with Joseph because the established chronology insisted that the Egyptian seer had lived a thousand years before the Hebrew.
And it's the same throughout the whole of these two histories. As soon as a thousand years is subtracted from the Egyptian timescale, the two histories fit together, much like pieces of a jigsaw, as Sweeney says himself.
This book, still controversial, could become the new orthodoxy in a short time. Well worth a read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and provocative 'take' on ancient history, 13 May 2008
Why do people such as the previous commentator but one insist on writing "reviews" of books they have never read, and probably have no intention of ever reading? Even a brief look through the pages of this book will show that, contrary to what the above "reviewer" says, almost everything in it is new. And the charge that Sweeney believes the pyramids of Giza to have been constructed as altars of sacrifice could only have been made by someone who has never read a line of his work. In fact, The Genesis of Israel and Egypt makes no mention of the Giza pyramids, but does refer to the smallish stepped structures which were part of the Early Dynastic Age mastabas. These, Sweeney says, probably were used for human sacrifice. The Giza pyramids, which he refers to at length in his book The Pyramid Age, were constructed after the end of the Age of Sacrifice to celebrate the rebirth of Atum, the sun, and the end of the age of cosmic catastrophes. Oh, and the idea that Velikovsky regarded himself as a suppressed genius has no foundation. He regarded himself as suppressed - which even a passing knowledge of the events of his life will show to be true. As to whether he thought himself a genius, no one short of a mind-reader knows. One thing however; he was a true scholar and a gentleman: he left the personal invective to his enemies and suppressors - a habit they have, apparently, not abandoned.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, 30 Nov 2005
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Reading this book has changed my views on biblical history. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the connections between Egypt and the Bible.
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