Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the book of Genesis. Certain origins of the Hebrew religion can also betraced back to the time of the eighteenth Egyptiandynasty. The name Moses is unmistakably Egyp-tian, the same which appears in composition in thenames of the earlier and greatest kings of that dynasty,Ahmoses and Thutmoses, and which is common ininscriptions throughout that entire dynasty. The Arkhas its closest affinities with Egyptian ritual use, andthe monotheistic or quasi-monotheistic basis of Mosa-ism suggests strongly the monotheistic or quasi-mono-theistic religion of the reformer king, Amenophis IV orIkhnaton, with whom, and as a consequence of which,that dynasty came to an end. This reformer, it willbe remembered, received his education at, and derivedhis inspiration from, Heliopolis, or On, and there also,according to the Hebrew account, Moses was trainedin all the wisdom of the Egyptians. This reformerking, Amenhotep IV, it will be remembered, changedhis religion from the worship of Amen, the great god
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Photograph by Prof. Elihu Grant. Jacobs Pillar from below. Behind and above these stones, northward, the hill rises to a crest, called anciently Jacobs Ladder. The Ancestry of the Hebrews 29 of Thebes, to that of Aton, the sun disk, more espe-cially characteristic of Memphis. Similarly he changedhis name from Amenhotep (Amenophis) to Akhenatonor Ikhnaton. At the same time he broke with theancient conventions in art, and in social and religiousetiquette. Basing on the Memphis worship of Aton,he sought to make a purer and quasi-monotheisticreligion out of that worship, and to have the freer handto do so, abandoning Thebes, he built himself a newcapital, called Akhetaton, after the name of his god,the present ruin heaps of Amarna, where the tabletsabove referred to were discovered. After his death areaction set in, the priests of Amen at Thebes gainedthe upper hand, and persecuted the Atonites as Ikh-naton had persecuted the Amenites. Ikhnatons newcapital was destroyed, and Thebes again

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