AMENEHOPE & THE BOOK OF PROVERBS

It is truly amazing how much Egypt features in the the Old Testament, Torah and Quran!

But what I would like to share without expressing my opinion today is the above topic. The writings of an Egyptian sage called Amenehope are held in the British Museum, and curiously proverb after proverb of the Book of Proverbs can be attributed to this Egyptian original although they are customarily attributed to King Solomon (they are actually one of my favourite books in the Bible asides from Ecclesiastes). But hear this: it has now been discovered that the works of Amenehope were extracted from a far older work called THE WISDOM of PTAH-HOTEP which comes from 2,000 years before the time of Solomon. Perhaps one way of looking at it, is that at that time there were no literary rights hence no plagiarism, thus literary works discovered by conquerors could be assumed to be the conquerors as long as they suited the conqueror. Check this out:

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Amenehope (A) 1-6 - incline thine ears to hear my sayings, and apply thine heart to their apprehension, for it is a profitable thing to put them in the heart

Book of Proverbs (P) 22:17-18 - Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge, For it is pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee.

2.

(A) 9:5-8 -Better is poverty in the hands of God, than the riches in the storehouse. Better are loaves when the heart is joyous.
(P) 15: 16-17 - Better is little with fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith. better is a dinner of herbs where love is.

3.

(A) 11: 13-14 -Fraternise not with a hot-tempered man, and press him not for conversation
(P) 22:24 -Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go.

I could go on but I am a little type weary right now but I guess you will find this interesting too. As time goes on and information from different sources is made readily available on online resources, we will get to know much more about this world we live in and perhaps come to appreciate the many different civilizations inclusive of African ones, In our quest to have a better appreciation of the YHWH religion a few similarities in messages received by the prophets would be of a great spiritual sale that would ease the perceived domination of biblical history by a few races.

It has also been unearthed that even the ten commandments had a mention in Egypt. Could it be that God appeared for all his people at the same time but other world tribes did not keep written records?

Maybe I should go back to reading fiction, much safer being ignorant sometimes, at least the core is not as shaken in simple lives. Thats it on History Folks! CUT! CUT! CUT!