Re: Genesis of the Humans

On 30/06/2025 12:13, Daniel70 wrote:

On 30/06/2025 2:29 am, The True Doctor wrote:
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We also know from the Septuagint (the oldest extant biblical text which predates the extant Hebrew) that the god of Moses is explicitly named as On which means The One (I am who I am) which implies that he was Ktes = Proteus = Setnakte, since supernatural entities are clearly all bullshit so he must be a real person to be able to speak to Moses.

 It is quite conceivable that Moses was "hearing voices", too!!

No he wasn't. There's nothing in the narrative of Geneses which even remotely suggests that. Analyse it as literature. Setnakte/On a rival to Merneptah/Tithonus for the throne of Egypt uses Amenmesse/Moses to destabilise the government so that he can take the throne for himself by playing one side against the other. The burning bush is nothing more than a metaphor for the incense being burned by Setnakte's priests to keep the insects away. Setnakte's/Proteus's proclivity for burning incense to ward off insects is described in a scene in Euripides' Helen (or was it Aristophanes parody of it in The Thesmophoriazusae, maybe both).
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