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I just read "by his own hand upon papyrus" by charles larson. The one thing that leaped out at me was the author's thought about the God of Israel using a pagan (egyption) funeral text as a starting part for a revelation. He pointed out that the God of Israel didn't want anything to do with Egypt and would not use a pagan text to explain certain things about the Hebrew God. My thought is why could'New Testament Joseph have gotten the revelation when rewriting genesis. another thought (well, duh) was these ladies (Amon-Re-Neferimub and Ta-Shere-Min) who the funeral papyrus refer to - were they among the mummies on 'tour'? I have not heard anyone discuss if they were likely the ones on tour and these docments were to give them directions in the afterlife. Did the saints buy funeral text which laid next to or underneath the mummies for thousands of years and Joseph gets them and says they are the writings of Abraham and Joseph. Any thoughts. This was a good book, very basic and easy to understand, except the end kind of ruined part of it when he starts evangelizing.

regards,

thestyleguy

bump ;)

If I recall correctly the come to Jesus stuff at the end of the book was the "Price to pay" in having a evangellical group pay for the first printing run.

As far as the concern regarding pagan gods I can see how initially this looks like a issue. But when you recall that the gods of the Hebrew Bible are in many ways an adoption of the attributes and stories of the Canaanite gods at Ugarit concern about pagan influences. For example Yahweh, YHWH, Jehova is the name of the Hebrew god in the Hebrew Bible but Yahweh is also the son of El the cheif god of the Cannanites. Oh and you might find this interesting the elohim are the sons of El; it's plural. You may recognize elohim from the Bible or the temple as a name for god the father.

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