Not the best damn book on archeology ever

[marduk]

Something tells me he will not "appreciate" my discussion of how the P Creation myth is based on Ps 104 which is in turn based on Ahkenaten's Hymn to the Sun. . .

thats probably because its an erroneous hypothesis
for that to be true the Heebs would need to be in cultural contact with egypt
and they just weren't
if they were they might have knonw that they couldn't claim to have built the city of On
they might have mentioned Pyramids
they didn't even know how far it was from Egypt to Canaan (takes 40 years to travel 800 miles)
nor from the Mediteranean to Nineveh (takes 24 hours to travel 800 miles)

but you can tell him anyway if you like

[Guest]

thats probably because its an erroneous hypothesis
for that to be true the Heebs would need to be in cultural contact with egypt
and they just weren't

If they were not, then the Keel reference would not have a ton of Eygptian-influenced iconography listed.

Yet it does. . . .

You also would not have Proverbs based upon Egyptian proverbs.

Yet there are.

Also, hard to pretend those Egyptian colonies did not exist:

if they were they might have knonw that they couldn't claim to have built the city of On
they might have mentioned Pyramids

Egyptian influence and iconography was in Palestine, not the other way around. They were a major influence.

The Canaanite weather god and royal god is shown with the head of a falcon on numerous scarabs, which shows a conscious intention to identify him with the great Egyptian royal god Horus.
. . . .
Assimilating Canaanite motifs to Egyptian motifs made it easier for the "Rulers of Foreign Lands (the Hyksos) to acculturate themselves in Egypt. Egypt reacted to what had been done by these foreighners when it established Egyptian colonies, especially in southern Palestine, during the Late Bronze Age.
. . . .
The Egyptians pressed forward into the Near East after expelling the "rulers from foreign lands" from Egypt. This period came to a closure of sorts only when Tuthmosis III was victorious over a coalition of Canaanite princes near Megiddo in 1457 (Keel).

--J.D.

References:

Keel O, Uehlinger C. Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel. Thomas H. Trapp trans. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998.

[Minimalist]

Egyptian influence and iconography was in Palestine, not the other way around. They were a major influence.

http://www.netours.com/2003/bshean.htm

Beth Shean was important. Several things signify this:



1. In the mid-second millennium BC, it became the chief Egyptian military base in the area, as indicated by numerous Egyptian finds on the tell, more than anywhere outside Egypt.

Beth-Shean remained in use by Egypt until sometime after 1150 BC (in the aftermath of the Sea Peoples attack and the Philistines' arrival in Canaan.