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Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations

CHAPTER V
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The Asiatics will fall before his blows, and the Libyans before his flame." Even the conception of a son who is born of a virgin and a god is met with in the temples of Hatshepsu at Der el-Bahari, and of Amenophis III.
at Luxor.

Here Amon-Ra is said to have "gone to" the queen, "that he might be a father through her.

He made her behold him in his divine form, so that she might bear a child at the sight of his divine beauty.
His charms penetrated her flesh, filling it with the odours of Punt." And the god is finally made to declare to her: "Amen-hotep shall be the name of the son that is in thy womb.

He shall grow up according to the words that proceed out of thy mouth.

He shall exercise sovereignty and righteousness in this land unto its very end.


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