Historicity of Jesus - 2

[dhu]

A quick data post illustrating how innocent and quite touching heathen traditions are problematized as monotheisms and proto-monotheisms.

I came across the second inscription below in a children's book by Zahi Hawass, thought it was illustrative of the non-normativity of the Amarna Period, but couldn't find it again in the book to write down. When I looked it up today, I came across the following..

At least one reporter even went so far as to mistranslate a bit of [color="#FF0000"]text inscribed on a mud brick [/color]found in front of the Anubis shrine:



[color="#0000FF"] “I will kill all of those who cross this threshold into the sacred precincts of the royal king who lives forever.”[/color]



In reality, this text reads:



[color="#0000FF"] “I am the one who prevents the sand from blocking the secret chamber.” [/color](Translation by David Silverman, Egyptologist)

And now there is an 80 year history of "speculation" on the "rationality" of Pharaonic curses.