Sendrey, Alfred, 246, 337, 348, 359
Sephardi, 132
Septuagint, 249, 253, 272
Sergius, Metropolitan of Elam, 209
serpent. See snake. Seters, John van, 350
Seth, 36, 56, 62, 212, 219
Sethe, K. von, 317
Seti I, 107, 341
Setnakhte, 135–37, 263
Setna Story, 250
Seurat, 278, 362
Shabako, 341
Shakespeare, 71
Shaphan, son of Azliah, 225
Shaw, Ian, 336, 353–55, 358
Sheba, Queen of, 270
Shechem, 94, 198–99, 257
Sheffield, University of, 20, 42, 291
Sheikh Said, 172
Shekel, 15, 175
sherds, 229, 322
Shiloh, 140, 199, 286, 290
Shiyiah, 146
Sholer, David, 332
Shrine of the Book, 145, 257, 293, 300–301
Shu, 53, 55–56, 62
Siloam conduit, 193–94, 349
silver, 13–16, 21–22, 24, 28, 44, 81, 92, 95, 122–23, 128, 164, 172–74, 176–77, 180–202, 241, 260, 263, 334–35
bars, 15, 28, 172
vessels, 14, 177, 195
Simpson, William Kelly, 348
Sinai, 26, 122–23, 130, 139–43, 204, 211–13, 220, 230, 265, 286, 289
Mount, 42–43, 124–25, 212, 230, 258
Sirius, 343
Six-Day War, 331
Skehan, Patrick, 332
Skorecki, K., 350
Smart, Ninian, 363
smelting, 26
Smenkhkara, 106, 158, 172, 273, 349
Smith, M., 363
Smith, M. S., 363
Smolski, Roger, 344
snake, 52, 136, 215, 339–40, 348
Sodom, 81–82
Sokaris, 56
soldering, 25
Solomon, King, 16, 58, 65, 134, 137, 140, 146, 180–82, 195, 224–26, 252–54, 256–57, 260, 259, 265, 269, 276, 288, 294, 350
Solymites, 134
Songs of Deliverance, 120
Songs of the Harpers, 252
Spain, 205
spices, 109
Spielberg, Steven, 19, 349
Stahli, H. P., 363
Starcky, Jean, 332
Star Trek, 92
Stater, 15, 28
stela, 149, 197, 263
Israel Stela, 71
Stern, Ephraim, 356
Strabo, 153, 271
Strugnell, John, 332
Sudan, 268
Sukenik, E. L., 3, 331
Sumeria, 35–36, 39, 115,
Sumerians, 40, 278, 371
Sun, 46, 54, 88–89, 91, 109, 117, 135, 144, 149–50, 203, 216–18, 237, 241, 248–49, 340, 344
Susa, 129
Sutherland, C. H. V., 335
Swanson, Dwight D., 220, 357
Switzerland, 4
Sydney, University of, 265
Syene, 257–59
Syria, 33, 48, 55, 73, 94, 115, 146, 225, 264, 276, 298
Tabernacle, 65, 122–24, 128–30, 136–37, 139, 225, 286, 293
Tabick, Jacqueline, 345
Tahpanhes, 252
Tait, John, 170, 296, 300, 366
Talent, 14–15, 21, 28, 178, 302
Talmud, 34, 41, 122, 142, 374
Tana, Lake, 158, 161, 202, 205, 237, 253, 268–69, 278, 360
Tanis, 160
Taphne (Tahpanes), 258
Targum, 59
Targum Onkelos, 346
Taylor, Charles, 208
Taylor, Glenn, 363
Teacher of Righteousness, 143, 289
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 131
Tefnut, 53, 56, 62
Temple, 8, 56–57, 85, 91, 98, 103–4, 110, 120, 129–30, 135, 153, 155, 178–79, 191, 194–97, 219–20, 227, 231–32, 241, 250, 347
Edfu, 59
Elephantine, 110, 261–63, 264–66, 327
First, 5, 16, 18–19, 23, 81, 92, 103, 137, 139–40, 142–43, 153, 158, 161, 186, 190, 206–7, 210, 224–27, 246, 257, 260–61, 271, 288, 334, 353
Great, at Akhetaten, 86, 98, 108–9, 111, 122, 130, 136, 144, 147, 150, 156–58, 168–69, 172, 174–77, 179–82, 184–85, 187–88, 191–92, 194, 204, 223, 225–27, 238–41, 261, 266, 285, 290–93
Herodian, 39
Karnak, 61, 87, 119
Leontopolis, 285, 289, 319
Luxor, 105, 120
Second, 8, 16–19, 23, 39, 63, 88, 141–43, 153, 159, 186–87, 198, 204, 207, 219, 221, 225, 241, 247, 262, 267, 288, 334
Thebes, 63, 247
Temple Scroll, 3–4, 192, 215, 220, 218–23, 231–32, 288, 291–94, 331, 344
Ten Commandments, 16, 34, 56, 122–24, 216,
258, 260
Terah, 67, 221, 311
terebinth, 95
Texas, 19
textiles, 231
Thallus, 36
Tharbis, 38
Thebes, 24, 53, 59, 61, 73, 79, 86–88, 101, 106–7, 109, 119, 124, 127, 153, 158, 171, 248, 258, 273, 353
Themuthis, 38
Therapeutae, 144, 290, 352
Thompson, Thomas, 280, 362
Thoth, 55
Thummim, 140
Tigris, River, 42, 68, 278
Timna, 136
Timotheus, Patriarch of Seleucia, 209
Timothy, Book of, 246
tin, 23, 26
Tisithen, 137
tithes, 82, 111, 164, 175, 177–79, 185, 191–93, 197, 355
Titus, Arch of 18, 241
Tiyi, 98, 174, 183, 273, 332, 353
Torah, 34, 37, 39, 43, 55, 68, 121, 125, 139, 144, 165, 195, 208, 210, 216–17, 224, 244, 265, 272, 342, 374
Tusratta (Dusratta), 264, 296
Toronto, University of, 43, 114, 131
Treasury, at Akhetaten, 97, 106–7, 111, 135, 156–57, 176, 184–85
triad, 81, 341
trinity, 55, 246–47, 341
trumpets, 17, 241
Tübingen, 148
Turin Museum, 253
Turkey, 59
Tusratta, Prince, 258
Tutankhamun, 59, 106–7, 110, 127–30, 158, 234, 243, 273, 304, 350, 358
Tutmoses I, 39, 61
Tutmoses II, 113, 116
Tutmoses III, 41, 61, 73, 243, 256, 263
Tutmoses IV, 62
Tutu, 99
Two Brothers, Tale of, 96, 250, 346
Tyldesley, Joyce, 332, 363
Tyre, 344
Ugarit, 12, 124, 297, 333, 349
Ulrich, Eugene, 235, 356, 358
unguents, 13, 15, 60, 197
United Nations, 3
Ur (Chaldea), 33, 67, 77
uraeus, 62
Urim, 140
Uruk, King, 80
Userkaura Meryamun, 135
Valley of the Kings, 63, 119, 153, 273, 297
Vatke Wilhelm, 286
Vaux, Roland de, 3, 11, 14, 18, 44, 216, 236–38, 332–33, 353–56, 363
Vedic, 43, 55
Vermes, Geza, 132, 165–66, 178–79, 187, 195–96, 333, 250, 352, 354–56, 358
Vespasian, Emperor, 39, 332
Vestal, 35
Vidler, Mark, 152, 353
Vincent, A., 361
Vinci, Leonardo da, 71
Vizier, 33, 97, 99–101, 106–7, 136, 257
Volten, A., 346
Waburton, P. J., 350
Wacholder, Ben-Zion, 143, 220, 286, 288, 290–91, 357, 364
Wadi el-Hol, 297
Wadi Halfa, 268
Wall Street Journal, 331
War Scroll, 3, 5, 206, 331
Washington
Library of Congress, 306
Weigall, Arthur, 345
Weinreich, O., 360
Weiss, Charles, 338
Weitzman, President, 275
welding, 25
Wellhausen, Julius, 37, 44, 286, 337–39, 364
West Semitic Research Project, 297
Whybray, R. N., 250, 360
/> Wigoder, Geoffrey, 333–34
Wilford, John Noble, 365
Wilmot, David, 18, 334–35
Wilson’s Arch, 157
Winer, Mark, 283
Wisdom texts, 247, 250–53
Wise, Michael, 18, 132, 147, 163, 242, 334–35, 350, 353, 357–59
Wolters, Al, 18, 165, 169, 179, 333–35, 354–55
word, 339–40
Wright Baker, H., 12
X-ray fluorescence (XRF), 235
Yadin, Yigael, 3, 215, 293–94, 330, 357, 365
Yale University, 297
Yano-am, 135
Yaron, Reuven, 259–60, 262, 361
Yaweh (Yahwe). See also Jaweh; 259, 264, 270–71, 299
Yeats, W. B., 70
Yeb, 61, 109, 111, 114, 256
Yehudiah, Tell el-, 348,
Yemen, 270, 275, 314
Yemenite, 108, 246, 362
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 337
Yurco, Frank, 135–36
Zadok, 140, 181, 193, 195–96, 209, 213, 228, 290–91
Zaphenath-paneah, 97, 99
Zealots, 333–34
Zechariah, 264, 341
Zeitlin, Irving, 42–43, 114, 242, 338, 343–45, 348, 359
Zephaniah, 142, 271
Zipporah, 37, 40, 337
Zoroastrians, 214
Zuckerman, Bruce, 297
Zurich, 4
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[Copper scroll decoded]
The mystery of the Copper scroll of Qumran : the Essene record of the treasure of Akhenaten / Robert Feather.—1st North American ed.
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1. Copper scroll. 2. Copper scroll—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 3. Islam—Origin. 4. Judaism—Origin. 5. Christianity—Origin. 6. Egypt—Religion. I. Title.
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