Living In Truth:
Archaeology and the Patriarchs

2nd Edition

by: Charles N. Pope

Part I - Early Egyptian History

Chapter 1 "Sons of a Greater Goddess": (Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel)
Chapter 2 "The Fair Daughters of Godly Men": (Patriarch Enoch)
Chapter 3 "In Love and War": (Patriarchs Irad, Mehujael, Mehushael and Lamech)
Chapter 4 "Deadly Drought, Fatal Flood": (Noah to Nimrod)
Chapter 5 "Biblical Dark Ages": (From Nimrod to Sargon)
Chapter 6 "God is One God": (Origins of Biblical Jehovah in the Egyptian Religion of Amen)
Chapter 7 "A Sceptre Shall Rise": (The Genesis of Israel)
Chapter 8 "The Fullness of Time": (The Dual Identities of Joseph, Moses and Joshua)
Chapter 9 "Right in Their Own Eyes": (Perspectives on the United Kingdom of David and Solomon Overview of Chapters 10 through 15)
Chapter 10 "Contending with the Almighty": (The Fall of 1st Dynasty Babylon and Rise of the Egyptian New Kingdom}
Chapter 11 "All My Will": (The Rise and Fall of King Saul)
Chapter 12 "At the Side of My Father": The Birth and Succession of Pharaoh Thutmose III (Covenant of Isaac)
Chapter 13 "The Day of Reckoning": Djehuty: Early 18th Dynasty Priest, King, General, Viceroy, Scribe and Treasurer (The Egyptian name and titles of Abraham)
Chapter 14 "Brave Among Men": (The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut)
Chapter 15 "A Shepherd They Withheld": New Kingdom Egypt is Centralized under Amenhotep II and his sons Thutmose IV and Yuya
Chapter 16 "Surest Signs of Piety": (Comparisons between Pharaoh Akhenaten, Biblical Moses and Greek Oedipus)
Charts for Part I

Part II - Amarna Period

Chapter 17 "Beast of Burden": (The Role of the 22^nd Dynasty in New Kingdom Egypt)
Chapter 18 "Wars and Rumors of Wars": (Conflict in the Reign of Amenhotep III)
Chapter 19 "I Now Abandon You to Shishak": (The Campaign Mural of Sheshonq at Karnak)
Images Chapter 19 Reference Pictures
Chapter 20 "Evil More Than All Before": (Israel During the Amarna Period)
Chapter 21 "The Wrath of the Lord is upon You": (The Suppression of Amen by Akhenaten)
Chapter 22 "A Jealous God": (Tiye, Queen of Egypt, Queen of Exodus)
Chapter 23 "Mine Own Familiar Friend": (Panehesy: Nemesis of Akhenaten)
Chapter 24 "An Everlasting Priesthood": (Panehesy as the New Kingdom Phinehas)
Chapter 25 "No Better than My Ancestors": (Smenkhare, Beloved of Akhenaten)
Chapter 26 "A Double Portion": (Smenkhare Prepares the Way for Tutankhamun)
Chapter 27 "Go in Peace": (The Restoration of Tutankhamun)
Charts for Part II

Part III - End of the New Kingdom

Chapter 28 "Beginning of Strength": (Origins of the House of Ramses in the 18^th Dynasty)
Chapter 29 "To No One's Regret": (Horemheb Celebrated, but Not in Thebes)
Chapter 30 "His Youngest Son Succeeded Him": (Ramses and Seti in the Amarna Period)
Chapter 31 "The Chariot and Horsemen of Israel": (New Kingdom Empire Salvaged by Seti and Ramses the Great)
Chapter 32 "The Fairest of Them All": (Queen Nefertari and her Firstborn Amen-hir-khopshef/Osorkon III)
Chapter 33 "A Separate House": (Competition for the Throne of Ramses-the-Great)
Chapter 34 "Through the Fire": (A New World Empire under Takelot III/Tiglath-pileser III)
Chapter 35 "One Conquers a Thousand": (Piye/Sargon Becomes 'King of Every Land')
Chapter 36 "Neither Before Nor After": (An Empire in Transition)
Chapter 37 "Bronze Shackles": (The Odyssey of Taharqa)
Chapter 38 "Peace and Security in My Time": (The Trials and Triumphs of Shebitku)
Chapter 39 "His Servant for Three Years": (Taharqa and Thebes in the Tug-of-War)
Chapter 40 "I Will Wipe Jerusalem as a Dish": (The Destruction of Thebes)
Chapter 41 "I Will Raise Up Cyrus, My Anointed Shepherd": (Transition to the Persian Era)
Charts for Part III

Supplements - Herodian Identities of New Testament Characters

Supplement 1 "Mary Magdalene, Harlot or Queen?" (Posted at The Daily Grail website)
Supplement 2 "Herod the Great, King of the Jews"
Supplement 3 "The Birth of Christ"
Supplement 4 "The Ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus"
Supplement 5 "Saints and Apostles"
Chart "Jacob Typecasting of Herod"
Chart "Solomon Typecasting of Herod"
Chart "Egyptian Archetypes of Herodians"
Chart "Gospel Identities of Herodians"
Chart "Collective Typecasting of Herodians"

Tutorials

Lesson 1, "His Eye was not Diminished": (The Sons of Jacob and Leah in Egyptian Myth)
Lesson 2, "Who Made You Judge Over Us?": (The Memory of Dan and His Line as Judges in Egypt)
Lesson 3, "To the Utmost Bound": (The Increase of Joseph Over His Brothers)
Lesson 4, "Swift upon the Prey": (Benjamin Takes the Nature of Levi and Kingship of Joseph and Shiloh)
Lesson 5, "Sons after the Flood": (The Scarlet Thread of Kingship in the Land of Canaan)

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