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Old Testament Rama-Theo Index


Ramath of the South
A town of Simeon (Josh 19:8)
Same as Baalath-beer (Josh 19:8)

Ramathaim-Zophim (Town where Samuel was born)
Home of Elkanah (1 Sam 1:1)
Also called "Ramah" (1 Sam 1:19)

Ramath-Lehi ("Jawbone"; location in Judah where Sampson slew many Philistines)
And called that place R (Jude 15:17)

Ramath-Mizpeh ("Place of the Watchtower")
An inheritance of Gad (Josh 13:24-26)

Ramoth ("high places; heights")
Town of Issachar; possibly same at Remeth and Jarmuth (1Chr 6:73)
Same as Ramath (Josh 19:8)

Town of Gilead (Deut 4:43)
R in Gilead with her suburbs (Josh 21:28)
Which were in south R (1Sam 30:27)
Know ye that R in Gilead (1Kin 22:3)
And R with her suburbs (1Chr 6:73)
Jashub, and Sheal, and R (Ezra 10:29)

Ramah, Rama ("elevated")
Town of Asher (Josh 19:24, 29)
City of Naphtali (Josh 19:32, 36)
Benjamite city near Jerusalem (Josh 18:21, 25)
Deborah's palm tree near here (Judg 4:5)
Fortress built (1Kin 15:17-22)
Gathering of captives (Jer 40:1)
Reinhabited after exile (Ezra 2:26)
Probable site of Rachel's tomb (1Sam 10:2)
Samuel's headquarters (1Sam 7:15, 17)
David flees to (1Sam 19:18-23)
Town called Ramoth-Gilead (2Kin 8:28, 29)

Lodge�in Gibeah or in Ramah (Judg 19:13)
Elkanah went to R to his (1Sam 2:11)
Came to Samuel unto Ramah (1Sam 8:4)
Then Samuel went to R (1Sam 15:34)
Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah (1Sam 16:13)
David fled from Naioth in R (1Sam 20:1)
Gibeah under a tree in R (1Sam 22:6)
Buried�in his house at R (1Sam 25:1)
Buried him in R, even in (1Sam 28:3)
Judah, and built R (2Chr 16:1)
He left off building of R (2Chr 16:5)
Away the stones of R (2Chr 16:6)
Wounds�given him at R (2Chr 22:6)
Men of R and Gaba, six (Neh 7:30)
Hazor, R, Gittaim (Neh 11:33)
R is afraid; Gibeah of (Isaiah 10:29)
A voice was heard in R (Jer 31:15)
In R was there a voice (Matt 2:18)


Also in "Genesis of the Grail Kings," Sir Laurence Gardner says the following about Moses' biblical (not historical) parents:

Amram and Jochebed

Of particular significance to the story is the nominal distinction of "Amarna" which defined the Egyptian kings of the Akhenaten family strain, including Smenkhkare, Aye, and Tutankhamun. The word "Amarna" derived from Im-r-n (Imran), the name by which Akhenaten (Moses) identified his spiritual father, Aten. In its Hebrew form, the name was Amram, and this was the very name given to Moses' father in the Old Testament (Exodus 6:20).

At the same time, Moses' mother is given as Jochebed, who is earlier (Exodus 2:1) described as a daughter of Levi (meaning, "of descent from Levi"). Jochebed is also said to have been the mother of Aaron. In the Jewish tradition, rights to priesthood were granted solely to the descendants of Levi - but in practice, the Levite priestly succession descended only from Aaron. It has often been wondered why Moses and his sons were never priests if they were also descendants of Levi, especially since Moses and Aaron were brothers. The answer to this biblical anomaly lies, of course, in the fact that Moses was not Aaron's natural brother; neither was Moses a descendant of Levi. However, Aaron's natural mother was indeed the feeding-mother of Moses and it was she whom the Bible writers call Jochebed.

Jochebed (or more correctly, Yokabar) was an Israelite daughter of the house of Levi, and she married Aye (son of the vizier Yusuf-Yuya), who himself was vizier to Pharaoh Amenhotep IV. Amenhotep was, in turn, married to Aye's sister Tiye, the junior queen. The eldest son of Aye and Jochebed was Smenkhare (Aaron), while Akhenaten (Moses) and Mery-Amon (Miriam) were the offsprng of Amenhotep by Tiye and Gilukhipa, respectively. During the course of nursing her own children (including Smenkhkare), Jochebed also became the feeding-mother of Akhenaten and as such she was granted the nominal distinction of her own mistress and sister-in-law Tiye. She was, therefore, also referred to as Tiye. To avoid confusion, historical records call her Tiy or Tey (variations of the same name), and for the same practical purposes she is defined in this book as Tey. So Tey and Jochebed were one and the same. - but what of Jochebed's biblical husband Amram? How does he equate with the historical Aye? The name "Amram" has its root in the word "ram," meaning "height" or "highness," and such names (including Rama, Aram, Ramtha, etc.) were all related to some high titular status. Such was the case with the later princely distinction "ha-Rama-Theo" (of Divine Highness), which was corrupted in the New Testament to "of Arimathea." In his Egyptian environment, Aye was the designated "Father of God," and was a patriarchal "Am-ram" (Im-ran - a People's Highness) in both Egyptian and Israelite circles, just as the Bible explains. He was also an upholder of the Aten philosophy and it was in the tomb of Aye that Ahkenaten's own "Hymn to the Aten" was discovered, a hymn which provided the model for Psalm 104.

Across the river from Amarna lies the modern city of Mal-lawi (Malleui), which means literally, "City of the Levites," and the High Priest of Akhenaten's Amarna Temple was Meryre II. This is equivalent to the Hebrew name "Merari," which was the name of one of the sons of Levi (Genesis 46:11). It is evident that Akhenaten's association with the Israelites of Egypt was established long before he led them into the Sinai, and it is further apparent that at the time of the exodus, the One God of these Israelites was Aten, the original Adon (Lord, as against Jehovah) of the Bible.

So who were the Amorites, then?

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