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   From: Bill.Gates@MSN.com   
      
   Apparently on date Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:11:24 GMT, "Delila"   
    said:   
      
   >   
   >  "Brett Robertson"  wrote in message   
   >news:41f96c3f_2@newspeer2.tds.net...   
   >  > > Amen means so be it.   
   >  >   
   >  > How in the hell can you be so stupid (and which   
   >  > "authority" did you rely on to make this asinine   
   >  > statement)? They are EXACTLY the same words! Amen   
   >  > and Amen (Ra). Why WOULDN'T they "mean" the same   
   >  > thing?   
   >   
   >   
   >  Yes, according L. Gardner's book "Genesis of the Grail Kings" Amen does   
   >not mean 'so be it'. On page 268 it says "Even the ritualistic use of the   
   >previous Egyptian state god, Aman, was retained by the Isrealites. He was   
   >the god of Moses' father Amenhotep (meaning Amen is pleased) and the name   
   >Aman (or Amun) originally meant 'hidden'. It was added to the end of prayers   
   >to Amen and, even though such prayers were eventually transposed to suit the   
   >Hebrew doctrine, the use of the Egyptian end-name Amen persisted because the   
   >Israelites were not allowed to say the name Jehovah. Then, in order to   
   >justify the use of the name Amen in later times (even to the present day) ,   
   >it has been erronously upheld to be akin to the old Mesopotamian word haem,   
   >which meant 'so be it'."   
      
   Just asking if there are scholarly refs for this stuff, rather than a book?   
      
   Reason I am asking is many references are (at best) a bit lukewarm about the   
   exodus having happened at all, for a start.   
      
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