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Ich mache das Thema mal hierhin, obwohl es verschiedene Themenbereiche abdeckt (Ägypten, Judentum). Entschuldigt, dass ich die englische Wikipedia hier hineinkopiere, aber der Text ist m.E. spannend genug, um ihn sichern zu wollen:
Akhenaten and Moses
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Akhenaten and Moses
Theorie 1 schrieb:One of the most thought provoking theories is the following: Akhenaten devoted so much attention to his new capital city of Akhet-Aten that he let the rest of Egypt fall apart. Akhenaten was followed as pharaoh by Smenkhkare, then Tutankhamun, then Ay. He was the High Priest of Akhet-Aten, known as the Divine Father (an hereditary title). Although originally a believer in Aten, Ay realised Egypt had to return to the old gods. The priests of Aten wouldn’t reconvert, so they had to go, along with the mass of Aten believers. Ay showered them with gifts, and sent them off to colonise Canaan, where the priests, the Yahus, became the Judahites, settling in the south in Judah, while the ordinary believers settled in the north, in Israel.
In this theory, Ay was so respected as the Divine Father that he became worshipped as a personification of God; in the Aramaic version of the Old Testament God is called Ay, not Yahweh, and the word Adonay, used by Jews to avoid saying the name of God, Yahweh, aloud, means “Lord Ay”. When the Books of Hebrew History (the historical parts of the Hebrew Bible) came to be written during the Babylonian captivity, centuries later, Akhenaten became a template for Adam, and also for Abraham. The Israelite hero Moses, who in the Bible account led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, was based on Rameses, and his troublesome brother Aaron was the previous pharaoh, Horemheb, who succeeded Ay, and who tried to expunge all evidence of Aten worship and of his predecessors. Moses’ successor, Joshua, was Rameses’ successor Seti I. It is also argued that Hebrew was the lingua franca of the many different peoples at Akhet-Aten, borrowing from many sources including Egyptian and Ethiopian. The Exodus mystery has captured the attention of Western thinkers for centuries. Clemens of Alexandria in 200 AD was one of the first to mention a stunning similarity between the Egyptian symbols and those used by the ancient Hebrews.
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Theorie 2 schrieb:A recent theory is that the Bible is the history of Egypt, specifically of the Pharoahs. Placing the characters of the Bible in the context of recorded history, there are many convincing links, where-as traditional beliefs don't gel with recorded history. This includes characters such as Abraham, King Solomon and Moses. The placing of the Bible in Egypt and linking the story to the history of Egypt, Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten is found to be Moses, and that his god Aton, is the Hebrew god Adon.
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