Ages in Chaos by Immanuel Velikovsky

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky, Immanuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Science, History
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 1974-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

God's Land and Rezenu 1

The present chapter shows the conquest of Palestine by Thutmose III to have taken place, not in the Canaanite period, but in the days of the Jewish kings, and more precisely in the fifth year of Rehoboam, son of Solomon. In the preceding chapter the expedition of Queen Hatshepsut to the land of Punt was shown to have taken place in the days of King Solomon, and the land visited to have been Judea and probably Phoenicia too. In other words, we assume that Queen Hatshepsut on her peaceful journey and Thutmose on his military expeditions visited the same country.

We are now in a position that will either trap us or furnish us with additional proof that Queen Hatshepsut went to Palestine on her famous expedition, and not to eastern Africa. Is not this . point essential for the identification of Queen Hatshepsut with the Queen of Sheba?

The assumption that the people of God's Land in the pictures of Hatshepsut were people of Palestine can be easily proved or disproved by comparing these pictures with the figures of men with shields on the Karnak mural symbolizing the conquest of Palestine. In both cases Egyptian artists of practically the same generation did the sculpturing. They were masters in depicting the characteristic features of different races. Drawings of various ages are preserved in which Egyptian artists have made collections of racial types. A glance at the people of God's Land, the "people of the South," and the Egyptians on the bas-reliefs of the expedition to Punt may help us to understand the fine feeling these artists possessed for expressing the types of their own and of foreign races.

The same characteristic profiles, the same hair styles, with a ribbon around the hair tied behind, and the same long beard shaped as a prolongation of a pointed chin make it certain that types of one and the same people were pictured on the bas-reliefs of both Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.

But, one might ask, if Thutmose III went to the same country to which Hatshepsut had gone two or three decades earlier, why did he not call the country of his conquest, Rezenu (Palestine), by the same names that Hatshepsut called it, God's Land and Punt?

Year after year Thutmose III returned to Palestine to collect tribute (II Chronicles 12:8: ". . . they shall be his servants"). Three years after the conquest of Megiddo, Kadesh, and other cities, he had carved on the walls at Karnak pictures of trees and plants that he had brought from Palestine, with this inscription, already quoted: "Plants which his majesty found in the land of Retenu. All plants that grow, all flowers that are in God's Land which were found by his majesty when his majesty proceeded to Upper Retenu" 2

This sentence induced the translator to conjecture that "God's Land is sometimes applied to Asia."3

The sixth campaign of Thutmose III, like the first, was military: he conquered the north of Syria. Three years later he went to Palestine to gather the levy.

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