Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Jacob & Khufu part 2


(Forenote: Each block lists first details of Jacob and then matching details of Khufu/Cheops. Some of the horizontal matches between the two are so stark it can not be denied they can be the same person and is not impossible they are the same, except that we can't yet prove the vertical Egyptian dynasties dates chronology though neither can the experts whose ascribed dates are only theory with only few supposed supports. Our article below presently also only deals with Jacob and Khufu, and it presently excludes more on Joseph matches with 3rd-4th dynasty.)

Similar names:
Jacob: His name is Jacob(-el)/Yakov/James. Some associate the name Jacob with Aqaba which is considered to be from either aqeb "heel" or 'aqabat "mountain-pass (of Aila)". There is also a pun of Jacob and Kocab, as in "a star shall come out of Jacob".
Cheops/Khufu: His name is (Chnoubos, or Hnmw-/Khnum-/Noh-) Hfw/H-wj=f-w(j) / Khufu/Khufwey / Chufu/Chefu/Cheops / Shufu/Sofe/Suphis. A tradition also connects Suphis with shefet "bad luck, sinful".
Both of the names Jacob & Cheops/Khufu/Khufwey have in common the similar main parts -cob/-kov & khuf-, plus ja-/ya- & -wey at the beginning in the Hebrew name and at the end in the Egyptian name; or both names have in common jac- & che-, with the vowel and consonant the reverse way around in the Greco-Egyptian name, plus -ob & -ops?
Regarding the transposition of the ja- & -wey, or the jac- & che-, there are plenty of evidences that some Egyptian hieroglyphic names might not be read the correct way around, especially in the earlier dynasties.
Egyptian hieroglyphics and inscriptions are not written in single straight lines but in 2 dimensional patterns, and so they might possibly be read any number of possible ways and the believed "rules" of the direction/order of reading/writing them might not necessarily always be correctly ascribed by modern scholars (as seen by that many Egyptian names and words have had many different spellings/renderings since Champollion's decipherment). Lots of Egyptian names have been uncertain which way around they read, eg Narmer or Merinar, (Hnmw-)Hfw or H-wj=f-w(j)(-Hnmw), Djedefre or Redjedef, etc. Kh-u-f-u/Kh-u-f-wey/H-wj=f-w(j) is variously written/drawn as either: in an inscription photograph it is bird top left, disk (kh) top right, snake (f) in middle, bird bottom, all pointing right, which Bey draws with disk on left and bird on right and all pointing left, while in Clayton's drawing it is disk top left, snake bottom left and bottom middle, bird top middle, bird right all pointing left.
Also, some nations read left to right and some right to left, some front to back and some back to front. The sun is also said to have reversed directions of travel across the sky a few times (Herodotus), and some Egyptian king lists have reversals of order of kings in parts of them. There are also other possible Biblical evidences of early Egyptian names read with different order of elements eg Jacob = Khufwey, Potiphera = Ra-hotep? etc. (Also maybe compare hwhy/yhwh / yhhw/whhy in Cornuke's Lawz inscription?) So it cant be asserted that scholars are definitely right about the "rules" of what direction/way hieroglyps are read.
Alternatively, the name Khufu might have been an abbreviated nickname for Jacob like the modern nicknames Jake/Jack and Cob(b), or the Egyptians might not have written the (semi-)vowel(s)? We might compare variant readings of names/words like Khufu/Khufwey, Hap/Hapi/Hapy, Atum/Atmu/Temu/Tmu, Echet/Akhet/Khut, Y.../Shu, and Akhenaten/Ikhnaton/Khunaton (Agur-ben-Jakeh?) to see that the front/end vowel may be omitted/silent?
Or else it might be possible that Ja-cob matches Akhet-khufu/Khut-khufu, or that "(the mighty one of) Ja-cob" matches Khnum-Khufu since some sources claim that Joseph's/Yahuwseph's (related to Asaph's) and Judah's names contain the divine name Jah-? (Perhaps compare name Re-ufu in Great Pyramid?)
Interestingly, Hoeh previously thought that Cheops/Khufu was the biblical Job, while we have found that Khufu/Cheops seems to match Jacob. Jacob and Job(ab) are similar names. (They also lived to almost the same age.) (Possibly also compare Kubau/Kubaba in the Sumerian king list who maybe has similarities with Khufu/Cheops and Jacob or Job(ab)?)
We also note that Khafre/Chephren was called Suphis II in Manetho, which confirms that Khufu/Suphis I matches Jacob because Khafre/Chephren seems to match Ephraim who was son of Jacob's favourite son Joseph and was adopted by Jacob in place of his eldest son Reuben.
There are also/alternatively some other 3rd-4th dynasty names that are similar to Jacob such as Aches, Khaba, Khaibaw-sokar (3rd dyn), Ka-aper (the "Sheikh el-Beled"), and/or Kawab (4th dyn).
Jacob/Khufu also matches the shepherd Philitis "lover of righteousness" who dwelt at Giza in the 4th dynasty according to Herodotus, and this Philitis might be the same as Ka-aper the "Sheik el-Beled"?
The old orthodox theory that Jacob is connected with Yakob-har or Yakobaam of the Hyksos period is flawed because the fact that there are two Jacob names in this period implies that Jacob must have been sometime earlier. (There are also other similar names Yakbim in the 14th dyn, Quppen in the Hyksos dyns, like there are in the 3rd-4th dyns.) Jacob also has far more stronger matches with Khufu than with Yakub-har or Yakobaam.

Exact same names meanings:
Jacob(-el)'s name is said by experts to mean either "(may El/God) protect" (compare Yaqub-har "the god Har watches over"), or aqeb/akaiv "heel(-catcher)", or aqab "to usurp, supplanter". Some have compared Jacob with Aqaba which is considered to mean either aqeb "heel" or 'aqabat "mountain-pass (of Aila)". There is also a biblical pun of Jacob with Kocab "star".
(Khnum-)Khufu's/Cheops'/Suphis' name is said to mean "protected (by the god Khnum), (Khnum) protect me", and it is also connected shefet "bad luck, sinful" in tradition.
Expert linguists/philologists/etymologists/toponmists/Egyptologists can not deny the striking coincidence that both names have the exact same meanings of "God/El/Khnum + protect/watch". Khnum was an Egyptian creator & potter god similar to the biblical/Hebrew/Jewish El(ohim)/Jehovah/Qana and/or "mighty one of Jacob".

Fathers "different" or same?
Jacob's father was Isaac.
Khufu's father is claimed/asserted/thought/believed to be king/pharaoh Sneferu. However, some orthodox sources admit that Sneferu is only "most probably" Khufu's father.
Sneferu's name might match the biblical name pharaoh (see separate bit on this) or match Joseph's name Zaphenath and/or "the all-comely" (see later). The Egyptian pharaoh or Joseph might have been made like an adopted father to Jacob? Joseph was in Egypt before Jacob went down into Egypt. Perhaps compare "he has made me a father to Pharaoh" in Genesis 45:8?
Some traditional Egyptian sources imply that Khufu/Cheops was seemingly a foreigner (see later).

Exact same amount of time in Egypt:
Jacob lived for 17 years in Egypt according to Genesis.
Khufu's highest contemporary recorded "reign" year is 17.
It is true that Cheops'/Khufu's reign length ranges in traditional sources from
63 yrs (Manetho) to
50 yrs (Herodotus) to
"46 yrs" (one modern orthodox cattle-count theory?) to
34 yrs (Great Pyramid inscription taken as biennial cattle-count) to
26/27 yrs (Dakhla inscription taken as bienniel cattle-count) to
24/23 yrs (Turin King List) to
20 yrs (building pyr Herodotus) to
17 yrs (Great Pyramid inscription taken verbatim) to
14 yrs (Dakhla inscription taken verbatim) to
10 yrs (building pyr ramp Herodotus).
But only the two verbatim ones (14 yrs & 17 yrs) are actual reliable contemporary records, while the others are less reliable much later traditions/records/theories. The 17 yrs is confirmed by the match with the biblical Jacob's 17 yrs.
Herodotus' 10 & 20 years are also close to 14 & 17 years (rounded up/down).

Both were at the same place Goshen/Giza:
Jacob dwelt in Egypt in the land of Goshen/Gosen/Goson (Hebrew/Massoretic) / Gesem (Greek/Septuagint) / Kessan (Artapanus), the meaning of which name is unknown but has been proposed to possibly mean "drawing near" or "place of light/plenty/comfort", and it is also called the "best of the land" and the 'land of Raameses' in Genesis. (Perhaps compare go/gauh/geus/gosh means "cow" and/or "light/ray" in Indo-Aryan, related to Sumerian gu "bull"? Koren is rays/horns in Hebrew.)
Khufu/Cheops is associated with the Great Pyramid of Giza/Gizeh/Er-ges-her (meaning "beside the high") near Cairo. (Cairo area is also called "Babylon" which might recall "by the rivers of Babylon"?)
Goshen/Gesem/Kessan & Giza/Gizeh/Er-gesher are very similar names/roots with only the last letters/suffixes n/m & r/h being slighty different but interchangeable in/between some languages.
All the mastabas/tombs on 1/2/3 sides of the Great Pyramid of Khufu/Cheops look/feel to me like as if they are the 70 souls Hebrews/Israelites who came to Egypt with Jacob in to Egypt buried around Jacob.
Herodotus also said that the shepherd Philitis ("lover of righteousness") dwelt at Giza in the 4th dynasty.
Lemesurier's book also claims an alignment of Giza with Bethlehem.
Josephus said that the exodus started from Latopolis (Sokhem).
Joseph married the daughter of the priest of On (Heliopolis).
Pithom in Exodus 1 might be Faiyum/Pium, or ....
All these places are fairly close to each other in the same part of Middle Egypt.
Goshen can not match Fakus/Phacussa/Gesem in the north-eastern Nile delta of Lower/North Egypt like orthodox and Rohlite theories contend because of conflicts with various details of the Genesis & Exodus accounts such as there is no p- prefix in the biblical name. Fakus is too close to the Egyptian border.... Goshen as the "best of the land" better matches Giza than the north-east delta. The bible says the Hebrews filled the land of Egypt, which fits better with a more central location of Goshen. Exodus mentions the Nile river which seems to be the main stem/trunk not one of the 7 mouths/branches. Joshua/Judges mentions another Goshen in Canaan/Palestine/Sinai.

Both non-Egyptians:
Jacob/Israel was a Hebrew not an Egyptian, and he was a shepherd which occupation Genesis says the Egyptians disfavoured/despised. Later in 'Exodus' 1-2 the Egyptians turned against the Hebrews.
Khufu/Cheops: "It would appear that the architect for the Great Pyramid was not even an Egyptian. ... according to Manetho, Khufu was 'of a different race'." "It is written in the ancient texts (Manetho) that Cheops was 'arrogant toward the gods...." "Cheops was not a polytheist, for Herodotus records that he closed the temples and prohibited the Egyptians from offering sacrifices", and that Egyptians hated the 4th dynasty pyramid builders. (Compare anti-Semitism, and that Judaeo-Christianity doesn't tolerate other gods worship.)
Cheops &/or Chephren is also associated with the same number 56 as the god Set/Typhon who was associated with the ass, and with red headed people, and with foreigners. Alford suggested Khufu was an "evil" god. (The Sphinx was also a red colour too.)
Scholars admit that Khufu's father is only "most probably" Sneferu in their opinion. His small statue also does look non-Egyptian in my opinion.
It also seems right to me that the Hebrews are all descended from Khufu/Cheops who is the same as Jacob in 1 Chronicles 1-2 genealogical lists.
Herodotus also said that the shepherd Philitis "lover of righteousness" dwelt at Giza in the 4th dynasty, and that the pyramids were named after him. "The famous 5th-century Greek historian Herodotus states that the builders of the Great Pyramid were shepherds...." Philitis is similar to Philistine which in Hebrew means immigrant/stranger/settler.
Some sources even confound the 4th dynasty pyramid builders with the later Hyksos.
Ka-aper the "Sheikh el-Beled" of the 4th dynasty might also/alternatively match Jacob, and we note that the element -aper is similar to Habiru and Hebrew?

Buried in the same land:
Jacob's body was taken by Joseph back to Canaan to be buried there.
Khufu's/Cheops' body/mummy was not found in his pyramid, and it is not known where it is buried, with some suggesting that he was buried somewhere else (even outside of Egypt), though some suggest he might be buried underneath the Great Pyramid along with some other unlocated pharaohs bodies.
The 5th dynasty pharaoh Sahure is known to have been in Palestine at one stage, and this might possibly be when Joseph took Jacob's/Israel's body to Canaan to be buried there?

Exact same number of wives:
Jacob: He had 2 wives (Leah & Rachel) and 2 concubines (Bilhah & Zilpah). His 2nd wife Rachel died before Jacob went to Egypt.
Khufu/Cheops: He had 2 named wives/queens (Meritates & Henutsen) and 2 unknown wives/queens. Wikipedia menions a consort named Rekhetre. There are 3 satellite pyramids beside the Great Pyramid which are said to be his wives/queens ones. (Ref: Clayton.)
Not only did both have 2/3/4 wives, but at least one of them has very similar name Rekhetre/Rach(a)el (esp considering that re & el are similar, and/or l & r often interchange). The meanings of the other Egyptian wives names will be related to Jacob's wives.

Same number of sons:
Jacob had 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 (+ 2) sons = 12/14 sons. (He adopted Joseph's 2 sons hence "14" in all.)
Khufu/Cheops had a "rather large family".
From various sources Khufu seems to have had between 6 to 9 to 15 sons. Clayton lists 6 sons, and his genealogical tree shows 5 of them. A couple/few other sources list some other "sons of the king".
(Here is a list of all the seeming sons of Khufu that we found in a few different sources: Djedefre, Kawab, Khafre, Djedefhor, Banefre, Khufukaef/Khufukhaf, Hemiunu/Hemon? Bauefre? Minkhaf, Horbaef, Babaef, Nefermaat? Khnumbaef, Wepemnefert? Kamaha?
Some of the names or meanings seemingly may match with the sons of Jacob in Genesis, see lists at end.)
There is/are also a similar number to around about 12 tombs/mastabas on 1 or 2 sides of the great pyramid in aerial-view drawings/diagrams.

Ephraim & Manasseh:
Jacob adopted his favourite son Joseph's 2 sons Ephraim and Manasseh in place of his 2 eldest sons Reuben & Simeon.
(Ephraim means "fruitful", Manasseh means "forget".)
Jacob put the younger son Ephraim before the elder son Manasseh, and said Ephraim "greater" and Manasseh "great" (Genesis 48).
(Family sub-section of 4 or 3 persons, in the order: Jacob, (Joseph,) Ephraim, Manasseh.)
Khufu/Cheops: There are only 4 main structures at Giza: the 3 pyramids of Khufu/Cheops, Khafre/Chephren and Menkaure/Mycerinus, plus the Sphinx.
The order of the structures at Giza goes: 1 the Great Pyramid of Khufu/Cheops, 2 the Sphinx and 3 pyramid of Khafre/Chephren, and 4 the pyramid of Menkaure/Mycerinus.
The Sphinx has been suggested to be either Djedefre or Khafre.
The order of the 4th dynasty "kings/pharaohs" goes Khufu/Cheops, (Djedefre/Redjedef,) Khafre/Chephren, Menkaure/Mycerinus.
Khafre/Chephren is also called Suphis II.
The 2 groups of 3/4 Egyptian & Biblical persons match (see lists at end).
(Khafre/Chephren means "appearing like sun-god Re/Ra", and Menkaure/Mycerinus means "eternal like the souls of Re", which meanings are similar to those of Ephraim and Manasseh.)
Khafre's pyramid name means "the great/upper", and it is seen rising high behind Sphinx looking from in front of Sphinx face, and his pyramid is larger than Menkaure's/Mycerinus', and is on higher ground. Menkaure's pyramid name means "the high one", and the pyramid is smaller than Khafre's/Chephren's, and is aligned slightly off centre line of alignment of all 3 pyramids.
Khafre/Chephren being called Souphis II fits with Ephraim the son of Jacob's favourite son being adopted in place of Jacob's eldest son Reuben.
The 2 energies/pyramids of Sneferu (3rd-4th dyn) might also/alternatively possibly be connected with Joseph's 2 sons?

Both had a similar daughter:
Jacob is only mentioned as having had 1 daughter named Dinah, who Shechem tried to "make a harlot of". (Though Ari Zuker suggests that Jacob also had another 2nd unnamed daughter as implied by a discrepancy in the list of 70 or 72 souls who came into Egypt with Jacob? The 70 souls are mostly male sons and grandsons, but there is also a Serach daughter of Asher among the 70 souls. A tradition says Dinah was later married to .... Tamar is maybe a possibility for the missing soul?)
Khufu/Cheops: Herodotus mentions that Cheops "sent his daughter to a bawdy-house", and one of the satellite pyramids of Khufu's pyramid was supposedly connected with a daughter of Khufu/Cheops (or "one of his daughters" according to Clayton) named Rhodopis.
(One source gives this list of daughters and/or daughters-in-law of Khufu: Nefertiabet, Hetephires/Satnetjerkhetef, Meresankh, Meritites, Khamerernebty?)

Jacob's couch:
Jacob's bed/couch in Genesis 47:31 & 48:2 & 49:33 might match the gold/bronze metalic colour wooden bed found in the "tomb of Hetephires" nearby Khufu's/Cheops' (Jacob's) pyramid at Giza?

Sphinx:
In Genesis 49 Jacob said the "crouching" "lion of Judah" "shall go up", and "the sceptre shall not pass from between his feet until messiah comes". Jacob also blessed the "head of Joseph" later in the same chapter (& Deut 33). (Judah & Joseph were Jacob's 2 most favoured sons/heirs. The lion of Judah is the messiah/christ, compare Aslan in CS Lewis. Joseph is also a type of the messiah/christ, having many analogous similarities with the messianic prophecies fulfilled by Jesus. Compare 'Messiah ben Joseph'?
Near Khufu's/Cheops' pyramid at Giza is the Great Sphinx crouching man-lion with stele/beard between stretched forth paws, which looks towards the east & rising sun (kedem "front" in Semitic).
Looking at the front of the Sphinx we see Khafre's pyramid, which was named "the great", rising above in the background, similar to the lion of Judah "shall go up"?
The face of the head of the Sphinx has been suggested to be either that of Djedefre (who seems to match with Joseph)* or Khafre (Ephraim). (Family resemblance between Djedefre & Khafre like that between Joseph & Ephraim.)
Some say the name of Sphinx is from Sheshep-ankh "eternal living image", which resembles Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. (Paneah is often considered to be pi-ankh, meaning pi- "the" + ankh "life, living image"). (Other names of the Sphinx are/were Hu, Horemkhu/Harmachis, and Abu Hol "father of terror". Hu might be connected with the 3rd dynasty person Huni/Huny/Huy whose name might match Paneah/Piankh or Benoni?)
Like Joseph, the Sphinx is connected with dreams (Dream Stele).
There is evidence that the leonine Sphinx was maybe mentioned/known in Khufu's (Jacob's) "reign", before Khafre/Chephren.
The Sphinx was apparently/allegedly once a red colour, and red is colour of Set(h) who was a god of foreigners (and whose name is similar to Seth in Genesis).

Khufu/Cheops "wrote the sacred Books...a (major) work of great/scriptual importance." (There might be texts in the secret chamber found in the pyramid shaft? The pyramid itself is a stone book encoding geodesic information.)
Jacob: Is associated with the "J & E" proto-Torah.
(Hoeh suggested that the work written by Khufu was the book of Job. Job's name is similar to Jacob's and they both lived to a similar age of 140/147 yrs. The word "write" is first mentioned in the Torah just after the wilderness stop Dophkah. Sinaiatic inscriptions which are claimed to match with verses in 'Exodus' may be from Solomon's time.)

Pyramids:
Jacob:
Jacob's ladder.
His period is also associated with the word mastebah in the bible.
His prophecy in Genesis 49 mentions the "eternal mountains" of Joseph.
Jacob was embalmed in Egypt over 40/70 days.
Khufu/Cheops:
Some scholars have compared the Step Pyramid and/or the Great Pyramid with Jacob's ladder.
Pyramids were built-up over/above mastebahs which were pre-types of pyramids.
Khufu is associated with the Great Pyramid and also with the other 2 of the 3 pyramids of Giza.
Other scholars have sometimes thought the pyramids were connected with Joseph's storehouses/granaries or Pharaoh's treasure-cities in Exodus 1. Alford suggested that water might be a solution to the mystery of the Great Pyramid, and it might be possible that this may connect with Joseph's famine? Some early traditional sources claimed the Hebrew( slave)s built pyramids. Herodotus said the Egyptians hated the 4th dynasty pyramid builders, and that the Giza pyramids were named after the shepherd Philitis who dwelt at Giza then.
Pyramids are often considered to be tombs of the pharaohs embalmed mummies, but not many have actually had bodies found in them.
Some of the Great Pyramids astronomical alignments to Sah/Osiris/Orion/Kesil/Jabr, Sept/Sothis/Isis/Sirius/Canis/Dog-star/Stella-Maris, and Draco/Taweret/Reret also seem to tie in to biblical mythological/theological/eschatologcal beliefs. Taweret is a mother/birth goddess. Isis has links with Eve and Mary and/or the Holy Spirit. Osiris has similarities with Jesus. (Some sources say how the 3 Giza pyramids mirror the 3 star of Orion's belt in the sky, and one source linked this with the 3 "magi" of the story of Jesus.)
 Sirius B has a 50 yrs orbit which recalls the jubilee of 49/50 years. (Also compare "a star shall come out of Jacob"?)
The name/word pyramid might be related to Abram/Abraham or the land of Ramses/Piramses/Paramesu?

70 souls; 40/70 days ritual:
Jacob came to Egypt with 70/72 souls.
He was embalmed over a 40/70 days period, like is known in ancient Egyptian culture.
(Note that 10 & 12, 40 & 42, 50 & 52, 70 & 72, 100 & 110 & 120, 400 & 430 interchange in biblical and other ancient cultures.)
Khufu/Cheops:
long hall of 40 columns/cubicle rooms (20 on each side) Step Pyramid complex.
40 dog days Sirius (there's a Great Pyramid alignment with Sirius).
41 sphinxes Sakkara/Serapeum.
41 blocking stones boat pit of Great Pyramid;
43 degrees slope upper Bent Pyramid,
43 degrees slope 'Red/North/Shining Pyramid'.
Great pyramid represents northern hemisphere on scale 1:43,200.
440 cubits Great Pyramid?
67 mortuary priests (& 6 independent high officials) of Khufu's mortuary cult.
70 kings, 70 days in 7th dynasty.
70 degrees Shepseskaf's pyramid / mastabet el Faraun.
70 days Sirius invisible conjunction sun.
Sekhemhet's pyramid slope 72 degrees.
72 degrees to e-w alignment of Dahshur & Giza pyrs.
"Great pyramid built 73,300 years ago";
74 degrees Meydum pyramid (now).
Djoser's pyramid slope 75 degrees.

Both worldwide/global atmosphere:
Jacob: Joseph's 7 yrs famine was world-wide according to bible. (The early time is also not long after division of nations at Babel.)
Khufu/Cheops: Great Pyramid's encoded geodesic informtion has a global air to it. (The Great Pyramid is said to analogously match the northern hemisphere. It is also claimed that the Piri Reis map is centred on Cairo/Giza.)

Same totals of years:
Jacob:
Jacob lived to 147 yrs old.
Hebrews were in Egypt for 430 or "215" years.
Khufu/Cheops:
Herodotus says the 4th dynasty pyramid builders lasted for 150 yrs, including "Khufu/Cheops 50 yrs, + Khafre/Chephren 56 yrs, = 106 yrs temples never opened".
Mas(o)udi said Surid (3rd/4th dyn) built pyramid(s) 300 yrs before the "flood".
(50/56/106/150 is half of 106/215/300, like 106/215 half of 215/430.)

Same totals of years:
Jacob:
Joseph lived to 110 yrs old.
Khufu/Cheops:
Herodotus says "Khufu/Cheops 50 yrs, + Khafre/Chephren 56 yrs, = 106 yrs temples never opened".
Djedi lived to a 110 yrs old (Tales of the Magicians, Westcar papyrus).

Same totals of years:
Jacob:
(Jubilee/pentecost 49/50 yrs.)
Khufu/Cheops:
Herodotus says the 4th dynasty pyramid builders lasted for 150 yrs, including Khufu/Cheops 50 yrs, + Khafre/Chephren 56 yrs.
51/52 degrees of the Giza Pyramid.
(The number 56 is also associated with Typhon/Set.)

Name Israel:
Jacob: His other name was Israel/Yitzrael which means either sarah-el/sarita-'im-elohim "god rules/contends/struggles/prevails/power", or is-rea'-el "man-friend of god", or Isra-El "pagan god Isra + El/god".
Khufu/Cheops: There are names similar to Israel in the 3rd-4th-5th dynasties such as Sarjak/Salhuk, Zoser/Djoser/Ser, Ser/Seris/Soris/Surid/Saurid, Saaru/Shaaru, Hem-netjer-Iset "priests of Isis", Isis (Great Pyramid), Sa-re/Se-ra "son of the sun-god Ra/Re", Er-ges-her/Giza, Userkaf, Sahure, Asar/Osiris, Restau/Rostau/Rosetta, Sargon/Sharrukin ("6th dyn").

Pharaoh match:
The king of Egypt in the stories of Abraham, Joseph and Moses is only called Pharaoh and not any other name (though some think the names Ramses and/or Pi-Thom relate to a pharaoh's name).
Orthodox scholars believe that the name pharaoh comes from Pr/Pr'o/Pr'3/Perao/Peraa/Paruw'ar or Aaperti "(the) (great) house", and that the title/name is first known to appear in Egyptian history in the 12th dyn or 18th dyn (Tuthmose 3 or Akhenaten) or 19th dyn (Merneptah) or 21st dyn (Siamun). Since our evidence is strong that Joseph was earlier than the 12th dynasty it must mean that either the use of pharaoh in the bible is an anachronism (being written later some time between Moses and the Babylonian capitvity), or else that the Egyptian/Biblical name was used earlier. (Some sources like Herodotus, Josephus, Newton, Brewer say that the Egyptian kings were "Pharaohs"/"gods" down to the time of Solomon/Shishak/Sethos/Merneptah, and only kings after then.)
If the use of the title/name is not an anachronism, then possible matches for the name pharaoh in the 2nd/3rd-4th/5th dynasties period (where we find matches for Joseph's story) include:
- Waddell claimed that Sumerian inscriptions or Indus inscriptions (read as Sumerian) or early Egyptian inscriptions (read as Sumerian) contain a word that matches Pharaoh?
- Some sources suggested that pharaoh was known from earliest dynasties, or that it was a name of the 1st ruler of Egypt?
- Parinbara ("predynastic" inscription, Waddell)?
- Peribsen or Perenmaat (2nd dyn)?
- Pirua in Peruvian king lists is similar?
- Phra/Ra/Re or Af-ra the sun god's reign in the dynasty of god-kings began in the 2nd/3rd/4th/5th dynasty (Raneb/Nebra, Rahotep, Redjedef/Djedefre, Sera/Sare "son of the sun god Ra/Re", 5th dyn sun kings).
- Sneferu of the 3rd-4th dynasty whose name various read as either Snfrfrw / Snprfw/Snprvw/Snprby/Snprvu/ Snpfv / Snprf/Snfrw/Snprb/Snprv/Snfrv/Snfr(w) / Snpw, or Snaphru/Snef(e)ru, or Sen-nefer. (Sneferu might be either Pharaoh or Zaphenath/Joseph of the Genesis story. He heads the 4th dynasty just before Khufu/Jacob and his sons, and orthodox sources suppose that he is "most possibly" Khufu's "father".)
- Herodotus has a king Pheros in the 12th dynasty and/or before the 4th dynasty.
- Reufu/Ufura found in Great Pyramid inscriptions.
- "Great Pyramid" resembles Pharaoh "great house"? or Pharaoh "great house" resembles Khufu's "rather large family" and Jacob's 12 sons and/or 70 souls.
- Chephren/Khafre (4th dyn, matching Ephraim who is called "greater in Genesis 48).
Djoser/Zoser/Ser of the 3rd dynasty is associated with a 7 yrs drought/famine in the Sahel/Philae inscription. Sekhemhet's/Djoserty-ankh's buried pyramid beside Zoser's Step Pyramid looks like maybe vizier Zaphenath's/Joseph's beside his pharaoh's?
In Masudi's story Saurid/Surid (Shaaru/Saaru, or Soris/Seris/Ser of the 3rd/4th/5th dyn in Manetho) had a dream similar to Pharaoh in Joseph's story, and he was "300 yrs before the flood" like Joseph's pharaoh was 430 yrs before the exodus events. Surid's "flood and fire" in the story might match the 7 yrs plenty and famine of Joseph? (Seris/Soris in Manetho is often supposed by conventional Egyptologists to match Sneferu, but may rather match Djoser/Zoser.)

Joseph match: (incomplete, see other articles)
Critics and sceptics have claimed that there has not been found any evidence of Joseph & Moses in Egypt (in the time they assert that they were there in), but this is because they have looked in the wrong time (because their ascribed vertical dates for the Egyptian dynasties are too long/old) and wrong parts of Egypt. We and others (Mohler, Wyatt, Hoeh) have found strong evidences for that Joseph was in Egypt in the 2nd/3rd to 4th/5th dynasties, and we can even point to actual candidate matches for the name and/or person Joseph in Egypt then.
The bible says Joseph's Egyptian name was Zaphenath-Paneah. A traditional Jewish source also says Joseph was called "the all-comely".
Among the candidates for matching Joseph/Zaphenath in the 2nd/3rd to 4th/5th dynasty are the following:
Khasekhemwy: ....
Sanakhte: His name possibly resembles Zaphenath?
Djoser/Zoser: His name resembles Joseph's (or at least the modern English versions of the Egyptian and Hebrew names seem similar), and he is also associated with a 7 years drought/famine in the Sahel/Philae inscription.
Imhotep: His name is similar to Joseph's. He was vizier of Djoser, similar to Joseph was vizier of Pharaoh. .... For further/fuller details see Mohler's and Wyatt's articles and see this other article of our own https://iwillnotbeassimilated.blogspot.com/2019/01/joseph-and-imhotep.html .
Sekhemhet aka Djoserty-ankh and/or Teti: The name Sekhemhet is variously spelt Sekhem(k)het/Sekhemk(h)et / Se(s)chemchet / "Szehemhet/Sejemjet" and maybe matches the name Zaphenath-paneah/Psothom-phanech.... Djoserty is similar to Joseph. The -ankh could match Paneah which is supposed to be Pi-ankh (pi- is a prefix meaning "the" or ...). Teti resembles that Joseph was tjaty "vizier". Sekhemhet's pyramid complex has many analogous similarities with the story of Joseph (see table in separate article). Wyatt showed Imhotep has connections with Joseph. Imhotep graffiti is found in/on Sekhemhet's complex. The Bible says Pharaoh put a gold chain on neck of vizier Zaphenath (Joseph). 3rd-4th dynasty: There was a gold necklace found in the Sekhemhet complex which may match the very gold chain of the Genesis story. Unas famine scenes beside Sekhemhet's complex. ....
Huni/Huny: His name might be related to the Paneah name of Joseph? He also might be connected with the Hu name of the Sphinx, and we have shown how the Sphinx matches Zaphenath/Joseph. (Alternatively Huny is similar to Benoni/Benjamin, or Hori?)
Sneferu: His name means "he of beauty" or "the two energies/beauties" or "he who makes good", from nefer "perfection, goodness, beauty, virility", (and he was also called the "beneficent king",) which is maybe similar to Zaphenath and/or "the all-comely". He heads the 4th dynasty of kings immediately before Khufu/Cheops (Jacob). The 2 energies/pyramids of Sneferu could possibly be connected with Joseph's 2 sons? The Bent Pyramid which is supposed to be Sneferu's may represent the 7 yrs plenty and 7 yrs famine.
Saophis Comastes "the trafficker or money getter" of the 4th dynasty in one king list recalls Joseph who (stored up grain, and) took all the Egyptian peoples money and cattle and land and selves/bodies. His name might match Zaphenath.
Djedefre/Redjedef: As we said in the Ephraim & Manasseh paragraph/section, .... Djedefre's name maybe resembles Joseph or Zaphenath/Thafneos/"Zatenaph/Djed(u)-en-ef". It also resembles the name of Djedi who in the tales of the magicians has similarities with Joseph including both lived to a 110 yrs old. His statue .... His son Setka's name contains the name of the god Set/Seth who was a god of foreigners. (Jacob said to let any other sons of Joseph be counted as Ephraim's or Manasseh's....) Djedefre's pyramid's name 'Djedefre's starry sky' recalls Joseph's dreams. His pyramid was not at Giza like Khufu's/Jacob's, which recalls Joseph not living at Goshen with his father. ....
Djedi dwelt at Dahshur, and we showed that the Bent Pyramid there may represent the 7 yrs plenty and 7 yrs famine, and the area is connected with St Joseph and "Joseph's Canal". In the tales of the magicians Djedi rides in a vehicle similar to Joseph riding in chariot in Genesis.
Sphinx: See the above section on Sphinx.
Shepseskaf: His name might be related to Sheshepankh/Sphinx and Zaphenath-paneah?

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