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Gods of Our Fathers The Memory of Egypt in Judaism and Christianity

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Richard A. Gabriel

Foreword by Mordechai Gichon

Book Code: GM1286

ISBN: 0-313-31286-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31286-1

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264 pages, chart, table

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/2001

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Religion

Series Number: 67

Endorsement From Dr. Stanley N. Rosenbaum
Professor Emeritus
Judaic Studies Program
Dickinsen College: Professor Gabriel's new book, Gods of Our Fathers, will engage and enrage Biblical maximalists and minimalists and everyone in between with his clearly written analysis of Egyptian influences upon Judaism and Christianity. The idea that both of these great religious faiths may have had their theological roots in Egyptian thinking is, to say the least, quite provocative and certain to engender much debate. As Nietzsche observed, what is needed is the courage to attack our convictions. Professor Gabriel's book does just that.
Endorsement From Professor Mordechai Gichon
Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Military History
Tel Aviv University
Fellow of the Society of Antiquities: There is great enjoyment in following the reasoning of an outstanding analytical mind offering solutions to complex matters. My colleague has written an intellectually challenging work that will stimulate the thinking of both historians and theologians. In this new book one finds the long overdue arguments that pays a debt of honor to the thoughts and ideas conceived of in the Nile valley long before Moses, the Exodus, and Christ. Professor Gabriel has plunged into the deep waters of controversial intellectual challenge in offering us this most erudite research into so controversial a subject. (from the Foreword)

Description: Gabriel offers a startling new look at Judaism and Christianity by attempting to trace their historical theological roots, not to the revelations of God, but to the common theological ancestor, the religions of ancient Egypt. Using new material only recently made available by archaeology, Gabriel shows how the theological premises of Christianity were in existence three thousand years before Christ and how the heresy of Akhenaten became the source for Moses' Judaism. Gabriel begins with the challenge that the dawn of man's ethical conscience began in Egypt by 3400 BCE, long before the age of revelation in the West. Over the course of 3000 years, Egyptian theologians developed a complete theology of trinitarian monotheism, immortality of the soul, resurrection, and a post-mortem judgment within the Osiris myth. These concepts existed nowhere else in the ancient world and were passed directly to Christianity. In 1200 BCE, the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten abandoned Egyptian tradition and invented his own theology of a single god, no immortal soul, no resurrection, and no post-mortem judgment. This tradition was passed to the West through Moses whose Judaic theology is identical to Akhenaten's.

Table of Contents:

Foreward by Mordechai Gichon
Preface
The Dawn of Conscience
Egyptian Monotheism and Akhenaten
Moses and Judaism
Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection
Jesus and the Christian Osiris
Ritual and Magic
Final Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 2001023854

LCC Class: BL2443

Dewey Class: 299


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