User talk:Axlalta

Re: Verifiably Out of Date
This is in regards to what you asked over at the Jesus as Myth talk page. I am a student of Ancient Egypt, so that's where I have my greates qualms with the accuracy of that page. 1) It seems to have some beef against the term pharaoh being used as a proper noun and a personal name. However, from about 2000-500 BC, pharaoh was not a title, but interchangeable with the king's name, thus there isn't a problem here. 2) It claims that there is no evidence for Israelites in Egypt. This is a very small minority thesis. Manfried Bietak, the excavator of Avaris, has found much evidence for some Jewish presence in Egypt in the New Kingdom. 3) It has a gripe with the names Shishak, So, and Hophra. Egyptologists don't really have any such gripe. Kitchen, an expert on the 3rd intermediate period, finds these names to be perfectly normal transliterations. Speaking personally, I can count off numerous names which have been butchered far worse by transliteration into akkadian. Nimmuria... Minahpiria... Dahamunzu... This really isn't a problem at all.

However, my greatest qualm is not factual accuracy, but that it goes on philosophizing about the evils of christainity as a faith, and then concludes that therefore Jesus is a myth... that's a total logical disconnect. Thanatosimii 20:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)