Joseph ( Son of Jacob ) can be identified as Vizier, IPI

Submitted by Graeme (Australia), Aug 17, 2014 at 23:04

In my dating of Mentuhotep 11 of the 11th Egyptian Dynasty ( 1757-1706 BC ) I have Joseph sold into Egypt in 1729 BC and becoming Vizier in 1716 BC. He is eventually taken to work in the house of Potiphar, an Egyptian. Montuhotep had Nubian and Libyan units in his army and Potiphar was a native Egyptian and also not of the Theban clan. It was at Thebes that the god Mont had a cult center.

Genesis 40;22 mentions Pharoah's birthday. I however think that this so called 'birthday ' was actually Montuhotep's " jubilee festival " ( the heb-sed) which was normally celebrated for the first time 30 years after the king's accession and thereafter at 3 yearly intervals.

The first Heb-sed was in 1727 BC. In 1718BC was the 4th heb-sed where the Baker hung and the Cup Bearer restored. Exactly 2 years later to the day ( no mention here of his birthday) Pharoah had a dream and it was this year 1716 BC where Joseph became Prime Minister ( Vizier ) of all Egypt.

The name given to Joseph by Pharoah was Zaphenat-Pa'aneah. Zaphenat ( more like zat-en-aph )meaning ' he who is called ' The second element in Joseph's name is fairly straightforward. It has been long recognized that 'aneah' represents the Egyptian word ankh ( meaning life ) or ankhu ( meaning ' is alive' ) Kenneth Kitchen proposes that the initial 'Pa' or ' Pi' element stands for Egyptian Ipi or Ipu. Ipi has a tomb in the north cliff of Deir-el Bahari. It has a canoptic chest along side the sarcophagus. No body there as Joseph's bone were carried out of Egypt by the children of Israel. The date of Jacob at 130 years of age meeting with this Montuhotep 11 in 1706 BC fits in well as this was the year that Montuhotep 11 died. ( Jacob Born 1836, thus at age 130 goes into Egypt = 1706 BC

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