Thursday, November 29, 2012

Joseph (Imhotep?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIFajJF2WhA The author (Jonathan Gray) gives several convincing, still existing, scripts and tours of buildings which align with the Biblical account of Joseph. His granaries, his tomb with an empty coffin, his hospital and inscriptions by Pharaoh Djoser, himself. One script tells of the seven years of famine and plenty but they are backwards to the Biblical account. Perhaps this was a mistake by the artists or it was misread by contemporary scholars?!? Gray suggests Im could be a precursor of I AM since Hotep means ‘the voice (or mouthpiece) of’. He extrapolates his theory by noting the carefully selected words of Moses to Pharaoh; Pharaoh would know Moses had spoken to the one God of Joseph by the selection of words in reference to Imhotep. Gray gives directly applicable scriptures to back his theory. Whether it is correct or not is hard to say but he certainly gives a very learned and convincing argument. Scholars, today, are split in their decision as to whether Imhotep was the Biblical Joseph for a variety of reasons; notwithstanding some of them have a desire to paint the Bible as one big myth. Christians, Jews and Arabs should think of these people as ‘pawns of the enemy’. There is so much evidence, including an empty coffin dedicated to Joseph pointing north towards Judea, many will see this movie and believe.