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Yeah, not even close. More like 16th Century CE, but really it was 14th Century CE (1391 to be exact) , but who am I to quibble about two centuries?
Jasher dates it, and I haven't done the math lately, but I think it is 16th century. Jasher does tell us that the Pharaoh of the Exodus was only pharaoh for four years, and was a short little man named Adikam, but Ahuz for "short", with a beard to his feet.
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Adikam was twenty years old when he reigned over Egypt, he reigned four years.
In the two hundred and sixth year of Israel's going down to Egypt did Adikam reign over Egypt, but he continued not so long in his reign over Egypt as his fathers had continued their reigns.
For Melol his father reigned ninety-four years in Egypt, but he was ten years sick and died, for he had been wicked before the Lord.
And all the Egyptians called the name of Adikam Pharaoh like the name of his fathers, as was their custom to do in Egypt.
And all the wise men of Pharaoh called the name of Adikam Ahuz, for short is called Ahuz in the Egyptian language.
And Adikam was exceedingly ugly, and he was a cubit and a span and he had a great beard which reached to the soles of his feet.
And Pharaoh sat upon his father's throne to reign over Egypt, and he conducted the government of Egypt in his wisdom.
And whilst he reigned he exceeded his father and all the preceding kings in wickedness, and he increased his yoke over the children of Israel.
And he went with his servants to Goshen to the children of Israel, and he strengthened the labor over them and he said unto them, Complete your work, each day's task, and let not your hands slacken from our work from this day forward as you did in the days of my father.
And he placed officers over them from amongst the children of Israel, and over these officers he placed taskmasters from amongst his servants.
The Book of Jasher also tells us that he was spared the drowning when his entire army was drowned in the sea, when pursuing Israel, and that he was taken to Ninevah by an angel, where he reigned for many years [Egypt was spoiled, anyway, and Ninevah was a dominion of Egypt at the time]. No doubt he appreciated YHWH ever after, and feared His name.
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81: 39-44 And the Lord manifested to the children of Israel his wonders in Egypt and in the sea by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
And when the children of Israel had entered the sea, the Egyptians came after them, and the waters of the sea resumed upon them, and they all sank in the water, and not one man was left excepting Pharaoh, who gave thanks to the Lord and believed in him, therefore the Lord did not cause him to perish at that time with the Egyptians. And the Lord ordered an angel to take him from amongst the Egyptians, who cast him upon the land of Ninevah and he reigned over it for a long time.
And on that day the Lord saved Israel from the hand of Egypt, and all the children of Israel saw that the Egyptians had perished, and they beheld the great hand of the Lord, in what he had performed in Egypt and in the sea.
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, on the day when the Lord caused the Egyptians to fall before them.
And all Israel sang in concert, saying, I will sing to the Lord for He is greatly exalted, the horse and his rider has he cast into the sea; behold it is written in the book of the law of God.
Osiris’s “son” or renewed incarnation, Horus, shares the following in common with Jesus
-Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Merion December 25 in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
-His earthly father was named “Seb” (“Joseph”).
-He was of royal descent.
-At at 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized having disappeared for 18 years.
-Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by “Anup the Baptizer” (“John the Baptist”), who was decapitated.
-He had 12 desciples, two of who were his “witnesses” and were named “Anup” and “Aan” (the two “Johns”).
-He performed miracles, exorcised demons and raised El-Azarus (“El-Osiris”), from the dead.
-Horus walked on water.
-His personal epithet was “Iusa,” the “ever-becoming son” of “Ptah,” the “Father.” He was thus called “Holy Child.”
-He delivered a “Sermon on the Mount” and his followers recounted the “Sayings of Iusa.”
-Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
-He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
-He was also the “Way, the Truth, the Light,” “Messiah,” “God’s Anointed Son,” “the “Son of Man,” the “Good Shepherd,” the “Lamb of God,” the “Word made flesh,” the “Word of Truth,” etc.
-He was “the Fisher” and was associated with the Fish (“Ichthys”), Lamb and Lion.
-He came to fulfill the Law.
-Horus was called “the KRST,” or “Anointed One.”
-Like Jesus, “Horus was supposed to reign one thousand years.”
Long before Christ, a story of a man born on Dec. 25th, had 12 desciples, performed miracles that include walking on water.
This one is my favorite coincidence-
-He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
perhaps those myths were based off of the prophesies of Christ. The oldest of which is in Genesis 3.
Amazing how the two main heroes of the OT were both murderers?
Moses and David
Moses was a prince in Egypt and he also was called to be the deliverer of Israel. Before his conception, Miriam prophesied of his birth and that he would be the deliverer of Israel. As a prince, he certainly had the power to execute the taskmaster who was brutalizing his brethren; but his reasoning was because he knew he was called to be the deliverer of Israel, and he thought to begin at that time, when YHWH had not yet revealed to him the exact plan for how he would do it.
He was only 18 years old, and so, when his own people did not receive him, he fled Egypt, to Ethiopia [before he went to Midian]. He became king of Ethiopia when he was 27 years old, because he had regained the city held by enemies of the king, by his wisdom.
He abdicated the throne 40 years later, when the former king's son was grown and the wife of the former king [who was married to Moses, which was a political marraige -but Moses never went in to her], wanted the son to reign. He was given gifts and went to Midian, and ten year later married Zipporah, and returned to Egypt at age 80, by YHWH's call.
Still, Israel was not brought out of Egypt for two more years, when Moses was 82.
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 72
And it was in those days that there was a great war between the children of Cush and the children of the east and Aram, and they rebelled against the king of Cush in whose hands they were.
2 So Kikianus king of Cush went forth with all the children of Cush, a people numerous as the sand, and he went to fight against Aram and the children of the east, to bring them under subjection.
3 And when Kikianus went out, he left Balaam the magician, with his two sons, to guard the city, and the lowest sort of the people of the land.
4 So Kikianus went forth to Aram and the children of the east, and he fought against them and smote them, and they all fell down wounded before Kikianus and his people.
5 And he took many of them captives and he brought them under subjection as at first, and he encamped upon their land to take tribute from them as usual.
6 And Balaam the son of Beor, when the king of Cush had left him to guard the city and the poor of the city, he rose up and advised with the people of the land to rebel against king Kikianus, not to let him enter the city when he should come home.
7 And the people of the land hearkened to him, and they swore to him and made him king over them, and his two sons for captains of the army.
8 So they rose up and raised the walls of the city at the two corners, and they built an exceeding strong building.
9 And at the third corner they dug ditches without number, between the city and the river which surrounded the whole land of Cush, and they made the waters of the river burst forth there.
10 At the fourth corner they collected numerous serpents by their incantations and enchantments, and they fortified the city and dwelt therein, and no one went out or in before them.
11 And Kikianus fought against Aram and the children of the east and he subdued them as before, and they gave him their usual tribute, and he went and returned to his land.
12 And when Kikianus the king of Cush approached his city and all the captains of the forces with him, they lifted up their eyes and saw that the walls of the city were built up and greatly elevated, so the men were astonished at this.
13 And they said one to the other, It is because they saw that we were delayed, in battle, and were greatly afraid of us, therefore have they done this thing and raised the city walls and fortified them so that the kings of Canaan might not come in battle against them.
14 So the king and the troops approached the city door and they looked up and behold, all the gates of the city were closed, and they called out to the sentinels, saying, Open unto us, that we may enter the city.
15 But the sentinels refused to open to them by the order of Balaam the magician, their king, they suffered them not to enter their city.
16 So they raised a battle with them opposite the city gate, and one hundred and thirty men of the army at Kikianus fell on that day.
17 And on the next day they continued to fight and they fought at the side of the river; they endeavored to pass but were not able, so some of them sank in the pits and died.
18 So the king ordered them to cut down trees to make rafts, upon which they might pass to them, and they did so.
19 And when they came to the place of the ditches, the waters revolved by mills, and two hundred men upon ten rafts were drowned.
20 And on the third day they came to fight at the side where the serpents were, but they could not approach there, for the serpents slew of them one hundred and seventy men, and they ceased fighting against Cush, and they besieged Cush for nine years, no person came out or in.
21 At that time that the war and the siege were against Cush, Moses fled from Egypt from Pharaoh who sought to kill him for having slain the Egyptian.
22 And Moses was eighteen years old when he fled from Egypt from the presence of Pharaoh, and he fled and escaped to the camp of Kikianus, which at that time was besieging Cush.
23 And Moses was nine years in the camp of Kikianus king of Cush, all the time that they were besieging Cush, and Moses went out and came in with them.
24 And the king and princes and all the fighting men loved Moses, for he was great and worthy, his stature was like a noble lion, his face was like the sun, and his strength was like that of a lion, and he was counsellor to the king.
25 And at the end of nine years, Kikianus was seized with a mortal disease, and his illness prevailed over him, and he died on the seventh day.
26 So his servants embalmed him and carried him and buried him opposite the city gate to the north of the land of Egypt.
27 And they built over him an elegant strong and high building, and they placed great stones below.
28 And the king's scribes engraved upon those stones all the might of their king Kikianus, and all his battles which he had fought, behold they are written there at this day.
29 Now after the death of Kikianus king of Cush it grieved his men and troops greatly on account of the war.
30 So they said one to the other, Give us counsel what we are to do at this time, as we have resided in the wilderness nine years away from our homes.
31 If we say we will fight against the city many of us will fall wounded or killed, and if we remain here in the siege we shall also die.
32 For now all the kings of Aram and of the children of the east will hear that our king is dead, and they will attack us suddenly in a hostile manner, and they will fight against us and leave no remnant of us.
33 Now therefore let us go and make a king over us, and let us remain in the siege until the city is delivered up to us.
34 And they wished to choose on that day a man for king from the army of Kikianus, and they found no object of their choice like Moses to reign over them.
35 And they hastened and stripped off each man his garments and cast them upon the ground, and they made a great heap and placed Moses thereon.
36 And they rose up and blew with trumpets and called out before him, and said, May the king live, may the king live!
37 And all the people and nobles swore unto him to give him for a wife Adoniah the queen, the Cu****e, wife of Kikianus, and they made Moses king over them on that day.
38 And all the people of Cush issued a proclamation on that day, saying, Every man must give something to Moses of what is in his possession.
39 And they spread out a sheet upon the heap, and every man cast into it something of what he had, one a gold earring and the other a coin.
40 Also of onyx stones, bdellium, pearls and marble did the children of Cush cast unto Moses upon the heap, also silver and gold in great abundance.
41 And Moses took all the silver and gold, all the vessels, and the bdellium and onyx stones, which all the children of Cush had given to him, and he placed them amongst his treasures.
42 And Moses reigned over the children of Cush on that day, in the place of Kikianus king of Cush.
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Book of Jasher, chapter 76
And Moses the son of Amram was still king in the land of Cush in those days, and he prospered in his kingdom, and he conducted the government of the children of Cush in justice, in righteousness, and integrity.
And all the children of Cush loved Moses all the days that he reigned over them, and all the inhabitants of the land of Cush were greatly afraid of him.
And in the fortieth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Moses was sitting on the royal throne whilst Adoniah the queen was before him, and all the nobles were sitting around him.
And Adoniah the queen said before the king and the princes, What is this thing which you, the children of Cush, have done for this long time?
Surely you know that for forty years that this man has reigned over Cush he has not approached me, nor has he served the gods of the children of Cush.
Now therefore hear, O ye children of Cush, and let this man no more reign over you as he is not of our flesh.
Behold Menacrus my son is grown up, let him reign over you, for it is better for you to serve the son of your lord, than to serve a stranger, slave of the king of Egypt.
And all the people and nobles of the children of Cush heard the words which Adoniah the queen had spoken in their ears.
And all the people were preparing until the evening, and in the morning they rose up early and made Menacrus, son of Kikianus, king over them.
And all the children of Cush were afraid to stretch forth their hand against Moses, for the Lord was with Moses, and the children of Cush remembered the oath which they swore unto Moses, therefore they did no harm to him.
But the children of Cush gave many presents to Moses, and sent him from them with great honor.
So Moses went forth from the land of Cush, and went home and ceased to reign over Cush, and Moses was sixty-six years old when he went out of the land of Cush, for the thing was from the Lord, for the period had arrived which he had appointed in the days of old, to bring forth Israel from the affliction of the children of Ham.
So Moses went to Midian, for he was afraid to return to Egypt on account of Pharaoh, and he went and sat at a well of water in Midian.
And the seven daughters of Reuel the Midianite went out to feed their father's flock.
And they came to the well and drew water to water their father's flock.
So the shepherds of Midian came and drove them away, and Moses rose up and helped them and watered the flock.
And they came home to their father Reuel, and told him what Moses did for them.
And they said, An Egyptian man has delivered us from the hands of the shepherds, he drew up water for us and watered the flock.
And Reuel said to his daughters, And where is he? wherefore have you left the man?
And Reuel sent for him and fetched him and brought him home, and he ate bread with him.
And Moses related to Reuel that he had fled from Egypt and that he reigned forty years over Cush, and that they afterward had taken the government from him, and had sent him away in peace with honor and with presents.
And when Reuel had heard the words of Moses, Reuel said within himself, I will put this man into the prison house, whereby I shall conciliate the children of Cush, for he has fled from them.
And they took and put him into the prison house, and Moses was in prison ten years, and whilst Moses was in the prison house, Zipporah the daughter of Reuel took pity over him, and supported him with bread and water all the time.
And all the children of Israel were yet in the land of Egypt serving the Egyptians in all manner of hard work, and the hand of Egypt continued in severity over the children of Israel in those days.
At that time the Lord smote Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he afflicted with the plague of leprosy from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head; owing to the cruel treatment of the children of Israel was this plague at that time from the Lord upon Pharaoh king of Egypt.
For the Lord had hearkened to the prayer of his people the children of Israel, and their cry reached him on account of their hard work.
Still his anger did not turn from them, and the hand of Pharaoh was still stretched out against the children of Israel, and Pharaoh hardened his neck before the Lord, and he increased his yoke over the children of Israel, and embittered their lives with all manner of hard work.
And when the Lord had inflicted the plague upon Pharaoh king of Egypt, he asked his wise men and sorcerers to cure him.
And his wise men and sorcerers said unto him, That if the blood of little children were put into the wounds he would be healed.
And Pharaoh hearkened to them, and sent his ministers to Goshen to the children of Israel to take their little children.
And Pharaoh's ministers went and took the infants of the children of Israel from the bosoms of their mothers by force, and they brought them to Pharaoh daily, a child each day, and the physicians killed them and applied them to the plague; thus did they all the days.
And the number of the children which Pharaoh slew was three hundred and seventy-five.
But the Lord hearkened not to the physicians of the king of Egypt, and the plague went on increasing mightily.
And Pharaoh was ten years afflicted with that plague, still the heart of Pharaoh was more hardened against the children of Israel.
And at the end of ten years the Lord continued to afflict Pharaoh with destructive plagues.
And the Lord smote him with a bad tumor and sickness at the stomach, and that plague turned to a severe boil.
At that time the two ministers of Pharaoh came from the land of Goshen where all the children of Israel were, and went to the house of Pharaoh and said to him, We have seen the children of Israel slacken in their work and negligent in their labor.
And when Pharaoh heard the words of his ministers, his anger was kindled against the children of Israel exceedingly, for he was greatly grieved at his bodily pain.
And he answered and said, Now that the children of Israel know that I am ill, they turn and scoff at us, now therefore harness my chariot for me, and I will betake myself to Goshen and will see the scoff of the children of Israel with which they are deriding me; so his servants harnessed the chariot for him.
And they took and made him ride upon a horse, for he was not able to ride of himself;
And he took with him ten horsemen and ten footmen, and went to the children of Israel to Goshen.
And when they had come to the border of Egypt, the king's horse passed into a narrow place, elevated in the hollow part of the vineyard, fenced on both sides, the low, plain country being on the other side.
And the horses ran rapidly in that place and pressed each other, and the other horses pressed the king's horse.
And the king's horse fell into the low plain whilst the king was riding upon it, and when he fell the chariot turned over the king's face and the horse lay upon the king, and the king cried out, for his flesh was very sore.
And the flesh of the king was torn from him, and his bones were broken and he could not ride, for this thing was from the Lord to him, for the Lord had heard the cries of his people the children of Israel and their affliction.
And his servants carried him upon their shoulders, a little at a time, and they brought him back to Egypt, and the horsemen who were with him came also back to Egypt.
And they placed him in his bed, and the king knew that his end was come to die, so Aparanith the queen his wife came and cried before the king, and the king wept a great weeping with her.
And all his nobles and servants came on that day and saw the king in that affliction, and wept a great weeping with him.
And the princes of the king and all his counselors advised the king to cause one to reign in his stead in the land, whomsoever he should choose from his sons.
And the king had three sons and two daughters which Aparanith the queen his wife had borne to him, besides the king's children of concubines.
And these were their names, the firstborn Othri, the second Adikam, and the third Morion, and their sisters, the name of the elder Bathia and of the other Acuzi.
And Othri the first born of the king was an idiot, precipitate and hurried in his words.
But Adikam was a cunning and wise man and knowing in all the wisdom of Egypt, but of unseemly aspect, thick in flesh, and very short in stature; his height was one cubit.
And when the king saw Adikam his son intelligent and wise in all things, the king resolved that he should be king in his stead after his death.
And he took for him a wife Gedudah daughter of Abilot, and he was ten years old, and she bare unto him four sons.
And he afterward went and took three wives and begat eight sons and three daughters.
And the disorder greatly prevailed over the king, and his flesh stank like the flesh of a carcass cast upon the field in summer time, during the heat of the sun.
And when the king saw that his sickness had greatly strengthened itself over him, he ordered his son Adikam to be brought to him, and they made him king over the land in his place.
And at the end of three years, the king died, in shame, disgrace, and disgust, and his servants carried him and buried him in the sepulcher of the kings of Egypt in Zoan Mizraim.
But they embalmed him not as was usual with kings, for his flesh was putrid, and they could not approach to embalm him on account of the stench, so they buried him in haste.
For this evil was from the Lord to him, for the Lord had requited him evil for the evil which in his days he had done to Israel.
And he died with terror and with shame, and his son Adikam reigned in his place.
Jasher dates it, and I haven't done the math lately, but I think it is 16th century. Jasher does tell us that the Pharaoh of the Exodus was only pharaoh for four years, and was a short little man named Adikam, but Ahuz for "short", with a beard to his feet.
The Book of Jasher also tells us that he was spared the drowning when his entire army was drowned in the sea, when pursuing Israel, and that he was taken to Ninevah by an angel, where he reigned for many years [Egypt was spoiled, anyway, and Ninevah was a dominion of Egypt at the time]. No doubt he appreciated YHWH ever after, and feared His name.
Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher). It is sometimes called Pseudo-Jasher to distinguish it from the Sefer haYashar (midrash) which incorporates genuine Jewish legend.
Published in November, 1751, the title page of the book says: "translated into English by Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, of Britain, Abbot of Canterbury, who went on a pilgrimage into the Holy Land and Persia, where he discovered this volume in the city of Gazna." The book claims to be written by Jasher, son of Caleb, one of Moses' lieutenants, who later judged Israel at Shiloh. Jasher covers Biblical history from the creation down to Jasher's own day and was represented as being the Lost Book of Jasher mentioned in the Bible.
In Alcuinus' purported translation of the book the Law was given to Moses on Mount Sinai not by God but by Moses' father-in-law Jethro. Alcuinus was indeed a famous historical 7th century English abbot, but the language in this book is pseudo-Elizabethan English. The supposed translation was declared an obvious hoax by the Monthly Review in December of the same year and the printer Jacob Ilive was sentenced in 1756 to three years in jail for this fraud and for his radical anti-religious pamphlets.
In 1829 a slightly revised and enlarged edition was published in Bristol provoking attacks against it.
A photographic reproduction of this 1829 edition was published in 1924 by the Rosicrucian Order in San José, California who declared it was an inspired work.
This book is sometimes confused with the very different Sefer haYashar (midrash).
No suprise that you msut use fantasy to uphold your fantasies.
Jasher dates it, and I haven't done the math lately, but I think it is 16th century. Jasher does tell us that the Pharaoh of the Exodus was only pharaoh for four years, and was a short little man named Adikam, but Ahuz for "short", with a beard to his feet.
The Book of Jasher also tells us that he was spared the drowning when his entire army was drowned in the sea, when pursuing Israel, and that he was taken to Ninevah by an angel, where he reigned for many years [Egypt was spoiled, anyway, and Ninevah was a dominion of Egypt at the time]. No doubt he appreciated YHWH ever after, and feared His name.
I'm just a little surprised a book was written (allegedly), 15,000 years before the time of Christ speaking of things that supposedly happened 3,000 years before the time of Christ. How does that work?
The Egyptian pantheon outdates Judeism, so how can the subject of this thread be based on your Christ?
Enoch wrote of Christ before the flood. Egypt worshipped Him as He was revealed by Enoch, as the hidden God in heaven, the Amen before they changed His truth into a lie. In the Book of Revelation of Christ, He declares that He is indeed the Amen, the hidden God in heaven [whom Enoch alone saw and wrote of], now revealed.
The king of Egypt only 35 years after the fall of Babel was Osiris, who was "degenerately deified" long after his death; but when Abram came into Egypt 35 years after the fall of the tower of Babel, he was just a king who sought wisdom. Sarai was taken into the Pharaoh's household for 5 years at that time of going in to Egypt, and Abram read to the Pharaoh's wise men from the book of Enoch, when they asked him to teach them truth, wisdom, and virtue. -Genesis Apocryphon, DSS scrolls translated to English
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[SIZE=2]and Pharaoh Z[oan … … …] Sarai to go to Zoan [with me, for she was v]ery [careful] with her person so that no [one] would see her […]. But after those five years, three men who were princes of Egypt [came … …] of Pharaoh Zoa[n] about my affairs and about my wife, and they presented [me numerous gifts and aske]d m[e to teach them] values, wisdom, and truth. So I read in their presence the [book of] the words of [En]och Qumran - Genesis Apocryphon[/SIZE]
Hagar was a daughter of the king of Egypt by a concubine, whose father advised her to go be a servant in Abram's household, and gave her to Sarai, at that time, to serve her, when Abram and Sarai went out of Egypt with gifts.
I'm just a little surprised a book was written (allegedly), 15,000 years before the time of Christ speaking of things that supposedly happened 3,000 years before the time of Christ. How does that work?
You mean 16th century BC.
Enoch wrote of Christ as the Son of Man in heaven who is with God and who is God, hidden, who was to come to be revealed; and Enoch wrote of Him before the flood and before a thousand years of earth history had passed.
Moses wrote Genesis and the Book of Jasher, as correlating books, and Moses had Enoch and also the writings of the Patriarchs, which are still to be found as fragments in the Genesis Apocryphon found in the DSS collection.
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