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Authors: Ahmed Osman
Tehenu
see
Libya
Tell Abu-Seifah, 113
Tell el-Amarna, 4, 62, 69, 88, 91, 125â6;
see also
Amarna
Tell el-Dab'a, 97, 109, 115, 222â8
Tell Heboua, 113â15
Ten Commandments, 18, 172â3
Tentpaihay, 216
Thebes: as capital, 35â6, 159; Moses at, 62, 65; Semenkhkare's coregency at, 63; tombs, 79; Akhenaten at, 83, 120, 122; inscriptions, 89; Tiye and, 109; temple of Amun, 132, 159; Akhenaten leaves, 158; Ramose at, 210â11; as site of Zarw-kha, 228;
see also
Malkata palace
Tiy (wife of Aye), 158, 180â2
Tiye, Queen: as mother of Akhenaten/Moses, 8, 54â5, 57, 61â2, 81, 146, 182; marriage, 54, 117; on Penehesy stela, 72; and Amarna rock tombs, 73â4, 198â201; and Baketaten, 75, 77; age, 76â7; on Theban tombs, 79, 139; status, 79, 81â2, 120, 127, 198; correspondence with Tushratta, 83â7, 212â14; gift to Aper-el, 88, 185; and Zarw-kha, 106â8, 116, 118, 172, 222, 228; as daughter of Yuya (Joseph), 107â8, 130, 185; relations with Akhenaten, 120, 122â3; mummy and burial, 144, 147, 231â2, 232, 240â1; and parentage of Tutankhamun, 146â7; Sarabit statuette, 170; on Kheruef tomb, 178, 203â4; and Nefertiti, 180â2
Tjaui, 93
Tomb 55 (Amarna), 231â45
Tushratta, King of Mitanni, 82â8, 118, 180, 211â14
Tutankhamun (
formerly
Tutankhaten), Pharaoh: decended from Joseph, 2; name excised, 27, 92; succeeds to throne, 63, 146, 149, 183; reign, 68â9, 92, 96, 99â100, 105, 132, 134, 153â4; tomb, 91, 144â6, 224, 240â1, 244â5; and Aten cult, 121; Restoration stela, 131; marriage, 132; burial, 137, 139, 141, 241â2; and Amarna tombs, 144; parentage, 146, 234; coregency, 148â9; readopts Amun, 149â50, 155; at Amarna, 153, 155; changes name, 155; death, 160; skull, 234â5, 237â8; and burial of Akhenaten, 244; and Hebrews, 246
Tuthmose, 8
Tuthmosis (Moses' brother), 61, 117
Tuthmosis III, Pharaoh, 2, 82, 99â100, 104, 105, 119, 159â60, 221
Tuthmosis IV, Pharaoh: and Joseph, 13, 53, 124â5; tomb, 90; reign, 99â100, 105, 108, 119, 167; harem at Zarw, 118, 222; and hostility to Aten, 124â5; and religious revolution, 160
Tuya (mother of Tiye), 107, 144, 229
Uphill, Eric, 114â15
Urnero, 93â6, 215â16
Usimare Setpenre, 195
van Seters, John, 220, 224
Velikovsky, Immanuel, 8
Wadi Abu Hassan el-Bahri, 134
Wadi Haifa (Nubia), 42, 90
Weigall, Arthur, 6, 140, 144, 147, 231, 233, 241â2
Wilson, Sir J. Gardiner, 200
Yahuda, Abraham S., 7
Yanoam, 40â1, 43, 47
Young, Thomas, 4
Yoyotte, Jean, 48, 121, 229â30
Yuni, 105
Yuya: identified with Joseph, 2, 13, 32, 53, 108, 229; as father of Tiye, 107â8, 130, 185; posts, 130, 229; mummy and tomb, 137, 144â5, 233; military origins, 158; and religious revolution, 160
Zarw (Zalw; Sile; city): location, 12, 106â16, 217â30; as birthplace of Moses, 61â2; Israelites at, 64; Amenhotep III at, 118; shrine of Aten, 121, 172; Akhenaten at, 121â2; and Seti I's campaigns, 187; name and writing of, 230
Zarw-kha, 106â7, 116, 228â9
Zin, Desert of, 19
Zipporah (Moses' wife), 15, 57
Zivie, Alain-Pierre, 88
NOTES
B
IBLICAL
quotations are from either the Authorized Version or the New English Bible.
Further details of works cited below will be found in the Bibliography, pp. 253â5.
INTRODUCTION
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1
      Breasted,
A History of Egypt,
p. 355.
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2
      Breasted,
The Dawn of Conscience,
p. 296.
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3
      Weigall,
The Life and Times of Akhenaten,
p. 2.
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4
      Baikie,
The Amarna Age,
p. 234.
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5
      Gardiner,
Egypt of the Pharaohs,
p. 214.
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6
      Pendlebury,
Tell el-Amarna,
p. 15.
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7
      Aldred,
Akhenaten,
pp. 101â4.
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8
      Redford,
Akhenaten, the Heretic King,
pp.232â5.
  1      BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
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1
      Osman,
Stranger in the Valley of the Kings.
  2      WAS MOSES A KING?
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1
      Polano,
Selections from the Talmud,
p. 132.
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2
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Ibid.,
p. 126
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3
      Waddell,
Manetho.
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4
      Josephus,
Against Apion.
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5
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Against Apion III,
p. 295.
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6
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Against Apion I,
p. 281.
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7
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 287.
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8
      Osman,
Stranger in the Valley of the Kings.
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9
      Redford,
Pharaonic King-Lists,
p. 293.
  3      THE ISRAEL STELA
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1
      Aldred,
Akhenaten and Nefertiti,
p. 8. Gardiner, who unlike Aldred does not believe in a coregency during the Amarna period, here gives a figure of 267 years.
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2
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Ibid.
Aldred also disagrees with Gardiner about the length of the reign of Seti I.
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3
      Pritchard,
Ancient Near Eastern Texts,
pp.377â8.
  4      REBELLION IN SINAI
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1
      Murnane,
The Road to Kadesh,
p. 144.
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2
      Schmidt,
Ramses II,
p. 180.
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3
      Kitchen, âAsiatic Wars of Ramses II', p. 66.
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4
     Â
Ibid.
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5
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 68.
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6
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 70.
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7
      Posener,
A Dictionary of Egyptian Civilisation,
p. 83.
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8
     Â
Ibid.,
pp.82, 83.
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9
      This has been interpreted as meaning that the king's body was recovered and buried.
10
      Ali,
The Meaning of the Glorious Qu'ran.
  5      SOJOURN â AND THE MOTHER OF MOSES
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1
      Cassuto,
A Commentary on the Book of Exodus,
p. 86.
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2
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The Illustrated Bible Dictionary,
Part 2, p. 1016.
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3
      Pritchard,
Ancient Near Eastern Texts,
p. 320.
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4
      Brown,
Hebrew and English Lexicon,
p. 108.
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5
      Cassuto,
Commentary,
p. 54.
  6      THE RIGHTFUL SON AND HEIR
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1
     Â
Exodus Rabbah I,
p. 24.
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2
      Ranke,
Die ägyptischen Personennamen,
p. 164.
  7      THE COREGENCY DEBATE (I)
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1
      Redford,
History and Chronology,
pp.86â169.
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2
      Redford,
Akhenaten, the Heretic King,
p. 79.
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3
      Carter,
The Tomb of Tutankhamen,
p. 5.
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4
      Redford,
History and Chronology,
p. 109.
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5
      Davies,
The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna,
Part III, p. 21.
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6
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Ibid.,
p. 23.
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7
      Redford,
History and Chronology,
p. 107.
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8
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Ibid.
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9
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Ibid.,
p. 108.
10
      Carter,
The Tomb of Tutankhamen,
p. 14.
11
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Ibid., p. 6.
12
      Redford,
History and Chronology,
pp.111â12.
  8      THE COREGENCY DEBATE (II)
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1
      Redford,
History and Chronology,
p. 115.
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2
      Carter,
The Tomb of Tutankhamen,
vol. III, p. 3.
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3
      Redford,
History and Chronology,
p. 119.
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4
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Ibid.,
p. 144.
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5
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Ibid.,
p. 145.
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6
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 168.
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7
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Ibid.,
p. 69.
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8
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Ibid.,
pp. 71â2.
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9
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Ibid.,
p. 51.
10
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 79.
11
      Hayes, âInscriptions from the Palace of Amenhotep III', pp. 36â7.
  9      THE REIGN OF HOREMHEB
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1
      Harris, âHow Long Was the Reign of Horemheb', p. 95.
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2
      Martin, âExcavations at the Memphite Tomb of Horemheb', p. 15.
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3
      Redford,'Chronology of the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty', p. 123.
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4
      Peet,
The City of Akhenaten,
Vol. III, pp. 157â8.
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5
      Harris, âHow Long Was the Reign of Horemheb', p. 96.
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6
      Gardiner, âA Later Allusion to Akhenaten', p. 124.
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7
      Gaballa,
The Memphite Tomb Chapel of Mose,
p. 25.
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8
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Ibid.,
p. 23.
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9
     Â
Ibid.,
pp.23, 24.
10
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Ibid.,
p. 23.
11
     Â
Ibid.,
pp. 24â5.
12
      Björkman, âNeby, the Mayor of Tjaru', pp. 43â51.
13
      Bietak, âAvaris and Piramses', p. 270.
10Â Â Â Â Â Â A CHRONOLOGY OF KINGS
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1
      Maspero,
The Struggle of the Nations,
p. 387.
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2
      Breasted,
Ancient Records of Egypt,
pp. 59â60.
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3
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Ibid.,
p. 60.
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4
      Maspero,
The Struggle of the Nations,
p. 386.
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5
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 380.
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6
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 379.
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7
      Reisner, âThe Viceroys of Ethiopia', p. 28.
11Â Â Â Â Â Â THE BIRTHPLACE OF AKHENATEN
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1
      Breasted,
Ancient Records of Egypt,
vol. 3, p. 349; also Yoyotte,
Le Bassin de Djârouka, Kêmi,
vol. 15, p. 23.
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2
      Osman,
Stranger in the Valley of the Kings,
p. 107.
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3
      Hayes, âInscriptions', p. 101.
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4
     Â
Papyrus Anastasi
III.
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5
     Â
Ibid.,
IV.
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6
      Gardiner, âThe Delta Residence of the Ramessides', p. 136.
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7
      Waddell,
Manetho,
p. 83.
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8
      Gunn & Gardiner, âNew Renderings of Egyptian Texts', p. 49.
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9
      Gardiner, âDelta Residence', p. 185.
10
      Naville, âThe Geography of the Exodus', p. 22.
11
      Clédat, âLe Site d'Avaris', pp. 185â201.
12
      Although the cross inside the circle is not found in all cases, this may be the result of weathering or error by the. scribe.
13
      Clédat, âNotes sur l'Isthme de Suez', p. 58.
12Â Â Â Â Â Â AKHENATEN: THE EARLY YEARS
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1
      Harris & Weeks,
X-Raying the Pharaohs,
p. 144.
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2
      Hayes, âInscriptions', p. 159.
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3
      Björkman, âNeby, the Mayor of Tjaru', p. 51.
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4
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Ä
erný,
Hieratic Inscriptions from the Tomb of Tutankhamun,
p. 2.
13Â Â Â Â Â Â HORIZON OF THE ATEN
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1
      Davies,
The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna,
Part V, p. 30.
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2
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 29.
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3
      Schulman, âMilitary Background of the Amarna Period', p. 52.
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4
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 66.
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5
      This will be the subject of a separate work, but the similarity of the names of the Aten priests and those of the followers of Moses is dealt with briefly in Chapter Nineteen.
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6
      Schulman, âMilitary Background', p. 67.
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7
      Pritchard,
Ancient Near Eastern Texts,
p. 251.
14Â Â Â Â Â Â THE TOMB OF AKHENATEN
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1
      Martin,
The Royal Tomb at el-Amarna,
Part 1.
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2
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 104.
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3
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 30.
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4
     Â
Ibid.,
p. 105.