
Egypt Revisited
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
Paragraph #3, Page 145-147
"...For centuries we have been led to believe that the pyramids were built by the brawn of slave labor. This is a historical fallacy. Upon being witness to the Jewish Sater one year, I was somewhat dismayed to find that much of the ceremony was based on the premise of Jewish slaves building the pyramids. This is also historically incorrect. There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that slavery existed in the first six dynasties of Egypt. To the contrary, what we now know from the Armana letters, and other documentation, is that not only were there no slaves but those individuals commissioned to work were PAID for their labor! Dr. HS Smith, Professor of Egyptology in London states in his book Ancient Centres of Egyptian Civilization, "It is now clear that unfree labor, slaves, did not play a role in Egyptian society during the Old Kingdom...(45)' In fact, for the Jewish people to have played any kind of role in the Old Kingdom is an impossibility for there is no record of their existence until after circa 1674BC. Josephus, (37-100AD) Jewish statesman and historian commented that the Hyksos were the ancestors of the Israelites. 'The Egyptians took many occasions to hate and envy us: in the first place because our ancestors, the Hyksos, or shepherds had dominion over their country...(46)' As modern historians will now attest this fact is undoubtedly true. The Hyksos invaded Lower Egypt following the Thirteenth Dynasty. They pillaged and destroyed thousands of statues, maimed and killed an undisclosed number of Egypt's inhabitants and mercilessly raped the women of the kingdom. This domination of Lower Egypt persisted for two centuries! How ironic; the Jewish people identify themselves as th former slaves of Egypt, when in fact their ancestors, the Hyksos, ruled and enslaved Egyptians for 200 years (the dates of Hyksos rule have ranged from 400 to 150 years, depending on the author quoted.)..."
(45) Professor HS Smith and Miss Rosalind M. Hall,
Egyptian Centers of Civilization (Windsor Forest: The Kensai Press, 1983), page 29.
(46) Flavius Josephus,
Against Apion (Book One). (New York: Reinland Press, 1976), page 25. Josephus was born in Jerusalem in 37AD. After studying the tenets of the sects of Judaism, the Essenes, Sadduccees, and the Pharisees, he became a Pharisee. At the beginning of the war between the Romans and the Jews he was appointed governor of Galilee. Though, he fought with valor his battle was lost. Ironically, he won favor with the Roman general and was given the name Flavius.
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Q. Who Wrote The NT?

Actually Flavius Josephus is the catch name for Arius Calpurnius Piso
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