Imhotep, Joseph, Step Pyramid, Jacob's Ladder



Taken from blogs at http://blog.zajigirl.com/africa/im-waiting-for-the-man/

The Engima of Joseph

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***I sometimes wonder if this is not the real Imhotep when he was a young man. He looks alot like the statues. He's labeled Vizier, Rashepses.****

 

So a blog you JUST HAVE TO READ. One I love is the blog by Alice Linsely called Just Genesis. This woman is so awesome - it defies words. Her passion for God, her excellent scholarly research was in large part an inspiration for me writing this blog.

She's spent over 30 years studying Genesis. And the insight and revelation she got on the Bible is amazing. Alot of times, most religious writers, theologians, archaeologists look at the Bible from a very male view. What I mean by that is they analyze the kings and religious symbols, the politics without having asked the simple and personal questions.

Where did the people that are written about in the Bible come from? How and to whom did they get married? What were the inheritance laws? Where was Eden? If there were only 4 people on the Earth, where did Cain and Abel's wives come from? Why does the Bible spend so much time on genealogies? Obviously it was important enough that it fills the Old Testament to say the least.

What were the writers of the Bible and God through these men trying to communicate?

For a people that we've supposedly based our entire societies on - who were these people.?And one of the things that you'll discover as I did is that the Bible is the story of kings - real kings, real people who were in our reality and were given a mandate to fulfill personally, politically and spiritually.

The Bible is not a simple cookie cutter religion- whatever you learned in Sunday School. It's much much deeper and realer than that. And as you begin to study and learn alot about how our side, the African side of the Bible has been suppressed...hopefully, the message of the Bible will become clearer and clearer to you as it has to me and so many others who've gone on a journey that is wild and crazy in so many ways.

And the tricky part is finding the truth, because there are so many roads to travel.

I can't say enough about what I've learned from just poring over Alice Linsely's writings. I'll be posting more links to her articles. She loves to answer questions, so if you have a question or comment - definitely stop by her site and ask her.

Anyway, she has this awesome article on one of my favorite Bible heroes - Imhotep who is more commonly known as Joseph. Check out her article.

I think it's quite amazing how God is giving everyone a little piece of the puzzle - unveiling mysteries that have been hidden for the last 2000 years. Awesome! Awesome! That's all I can say.

- Denise

By Alice C. Linsely. Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, is an enigma. He is a high-born youth who is sold as a slave and serves time in jail. He was familiar enough with the customs of Egyptian nobility to adapt to his life in Potiphar's house and he went from slave to influential ruler. To understand the enigma of Joseph we must consider the finer details of his story.

He was a high-born slave

He was already Egyptianized before going to Egypt

He married a priest's daughter, as did Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses

There is evidence that he had 2 wives, as did Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses

He is claimed as a prophet by Jews, Christians and Muslims

Joseph's saga serves as the transition from the patriarchal narratives to the Exodus. After his death, he was mummified as a high-ranking Egyptian and buried in Goshen, adjacent to Avaris. Avaris was founded by Amenemhet I, the first king of the 12th dynasty. Archaeological and anthropological evidence indicates that the settlers of Goshen were people from Canaan who shared many features of Egyptian culture. This would be expected if Abraham's people were Horites, an Egyptian priesthood devoted to Horus of the Two Crowns.

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Imhotep - The First Master Architect

Here are some interesting facts about Imhotep and the Bible’s Joseph (Various sources)

Check out the video too!

(Imhotep - Egyptian records) {Joseph - Bible}:

•(Imhotep is appointed Administrator by Pharaoh Djoser during the periods of seven years famine and seven years of bountiful harvests); {Joseph is appointed Administrator to Pharaoh for the seven years of plenty then of famine}

•(Minister to the King of Lower Egypt); {Pharaoh .. made him ruler over all the land of Egypt};

•(Administrator of the Great Palace); {Thou shalt be over my house}

•(From another nation/tribe; attained position by ability); {From another nation/tribe and attained position by ability}

•(Not appointed by Pharaoh Djoser until he had reigned for some time); {Appointed well after Pharaoh ruled Egypt}

•(Given the status of "son" to Pharaoh); {Granted the status of "son" to Pharaoh}

•(High Priest in Heliopolis); {Married to Asenath, daughter of Poti-Pherah, High Priest in Heliopolis - by custom, would succeed father-in-law}

•(Builder and architect); {Builder of grain storehouses such as at Sakkara step-pyramid}

•(Exalted by Pharaoh Djoser as of godly character.); {"And Pharaoh said, 'a man in whom the spirit of God is!'"}

•("I need advice from God."); {Noted as saying, "It is not in me; God shall give Pharaoh an answer."}

•(Had great medical skill - was compared to the Greek God of Healing)

•{Had doctors under his authority - worked by miracles, dreams and signs from God}

•(Decided the tax rate during the seven years of famine; also not to apply to priests); {Decided the tax rate during the seven years of famine; also not to apply to priests}

•(Realizes when he is dying - dies at age 110.); {Realizes when he is dying - dies at age 110.}.

You'll want to read Genesis 41-50 on Joseph's life in the Bible and you'll be amazed at the "coincidences."

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BBC World Wonders - Djoser's Step Pyramid, Sakkara

This is an interesting little snippet on Sakkara. More emphasis on Sakkara as a burial place rather than as an administrative center. Interesting thing was the fact that the pyramid at Sakkara was built as a step pyramid. It was a stairway to heaven. It reminds me of Jacob's dream in the Bible where he had the vision of climbing a stairway to heaven. And Imhotep indeed being Jacob's son Joseph that would have been quite the ode to his father. If only the world weren't so full of war and bloodshed, I'd be on a plane asap exploring.

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Professor Robert Temple Could Not Be More Right About 'the Vicious Academic World'



Taken from Robert Temple’s Egyptian Dawn. Exposing the Real Truth Behind Ancient Egypt (Century 2010).

Pp. 399-400:

"[On the Atlantic Culture] …. Countless authors, ancient and modern, have commented upon the Atlantic cultures, but these remarks have rarely been given proper attention Perhaps the reason for this is that there is no academic disci¬pline or academic department concerned with 'Atlantic culture'. As soon as the archaeologists of one region of the world begin to discuss it, they feel uncomfortable, because they are 'straying beyond their boundaries'. There is nothing that makes an academic more nervous than that, because it opens him up to criticism by his colleagues. The academic world is a vicious world, where no mercy is ever shown, and where the slightest slip from 'consensus behaviour' can endanger an academic's entire career. It is only people like myself, who do not depend upon the favour and approval of peers for a livelihood, who can say what they like and stray over as many boundaries as they please. With every passing year, the competition for jobs within the academic community becomes more intense, the level of fear rises and the timidity of discourse increases. One of these days, the academic world will just seize up like a sea of ice, with no movement at all, and all opinions will remain perfectly rigid. Then everybody will be safe. …".

Pp. 430:

"…. Alessandra Nibbi's ideas are so extraordinarily interesting and rele¬vant that at one point I considered attempting an extended survey of them here, and compiling a comprehensive bibliography for her as I have done for Patrick O'Mara (whom she frequently published in her journal). If it were not for the activities of a few polite and genteel 'trouble-makers' like Nibbi and O'Mara, Egyptology would become totally petrified and incapable of ever generating a new insight. Thus, people like Nibbi and O'Mara should be encouraged enthusiastically, because they poke the corpses of the 'walking dead', the orthodox scholars who never deviate by a hair's-breadth from consensus opinions, and make them awaken from their sleepwalking and stir slightly. However, I have had to abandon my noble idea of surveying Nibbi's ideas, however important they are in terms of what I have been discussing, because the task would be too vast, and this book would never end. I shall content myself therefore with quoting only one of her many, many articles, which appeared in her own journal in 1995, as her comments are so shocking in the light of what we have been considering: ... we are given [in a book she has just quoted] a resume from the Egyptological textbooks on the 'Libvans' without considering the fact that there is a great deal of uncertainty and assumption in piecing together the Egyptological material, and no clarity at all concerning the geographical background of these people, which cannot have been the desert.... We must accept the Roman use of this term which applied to all the area immedi¬ately to the west of the Nile . . . Thus the term westerner is more appropriate than Libyan for the people we are discussing. . . More recent studies of 'Libyan' people have been reluctant to separate them from the area that is Libya today and rarely attempt to identify them from any evidence. We even find references to 'ethnically Libyan pharaohs', whatever that may imply: At the seminar which formed the basis of Anthony Leahy's Libya and Egypt c. 1300)-750 B.C. (1990), no attempt was made to define 'Libyan'. Scholars depended considerably on Leahy's earlier article on the Libyan period in Egypt which attempts to identity the foreign ‘Libyan' Dynasty in Egypt as rule by men of 'Libyan extraction', even though 'the retention of their ethnic identity is obscured by the evidence’. …".