Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt: . m, recognizing but one god Aten, the very name suggesting the Semitic notionof Lord of all. The change of the kings ownname to Khuenaten — i. e., the glory of Aten,or the glory of God — would certainly show hisown warm sympathy with the new theology. It is from considerations such as these, that we areled, therefore, to prefer the era of Thothmes III. forthe date of Josephs elevation; inasmuch as theheresy (as some regarded it) certainly took its rise,though with feeble beginnings, before the time ofAmenophis III., and the heresy itself can be bestexplain
Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt: . m, recognizing but one god Aten, the very name suggesting the Semitic notionof Lord of all. The change of the kings ownname to Khuenaten — i. e., the glory of Aten,or the glory of God — would certainly show hisown warm sympathy with the new theology. It is from considerations such as these, that we areled, therefore, to prefer the era of Thothmes III. forthe date of Josephs elevation; inasmuch as theheresy (as some regarded it) certainly took its rise,though with feeble beginnings, before the time ofAmenophis III., and the heresy itself can be bestexplained in connection with the presence and influ-ence of Joseph. Besides, as already seen, it is the con-clusion to which the chronology of Register I., thatis more trustworthy than the other, would lead. But whether in the end it will appear thatThothmes III. or Amenophis III. was the Pharaohof Josephs elevation, it can be said, at present, thateither of them would abundantly satisfy the condi-tions suggested by the Hebrew
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