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Ramesses III (1194-1163BCE) Thebian mortuary temple, the
House of Eternity at Medinet Habu, and King Solomon’s Temple have
many common features. 119 It includes a Migdol Gateway (four-storey
fortress tower adopted for use in sacred architecture), two pylons, two
courts, hypostyle hall, an inner sanctuary or Holy of Holies for Amun and
a treasury. The colorful and well-preserved wall reliefs on the eight
pillars of the second vestibule colonnade, north of the second court, show
many arks and winged hawk-gods. These hawk-gods have their wings
outstretched in the same manner as the cherubim on the Ark of the
Covenant.
A more recent representation of the Temple of Solomon is on the
Island of Philae. Isis supposedly found Osiris' heart on the Island of
Philae. The Egyptians worshiped Imhotep there. The Jewish Temple of
Philae was the last Jewish temple that practiced sacrifice. It shows in basrelief
an Isiac ark that fits the description of the Ark of the Covenant
including its two cherubim. 120 The arc of arcacia wood was sacred to Isis
and Ishtar as it was to Moses and the Israelites.
Surprisingly, the Temple of Philae was the only Egyptian temple
not destroyed by the Persian Cambyses II in about 525BCE. In stark
contrast to his father, Cyrus the Great, Cambyses II was a cruel despot
prone to rages and sacrilegious acts. His admirable restraint on Philae
shows the degree of respect Cambyses II held for the religion of the Jews,
which was at least consistent with his Indo-Hittite Zoroastrian beliefs.
Certainly, the period in Palestine after the expulsion of the
Hyksos from Egypt in 1567BCE was much more commercially advanced
than the narrow focus implied to us by the Biblical stories. 121 After the
expulsion of the Hyksos, Palestine enjoyed a period of prosperity as the
Israelites retained close cultural affinities with the Hurrians and
Mediterranean peoples of Crete, the Cyclades and the richer areas of
Mainland Greece.
This prosperity was to abruptly end with the decisive five-month
campaign by Tuthmose III to capture the strategic city of Megiddo from
the Canaanite kings and re-exert suzerainty over Palestine. Tuthmose III
promptly made Megiddo his stronghold for Syria and Palestine because it
guarded the trade route between Jerusalem and Sidon.
An impressive fortified ashlar gateway protected the town of
Megiddo. Such squared masonry, the work of a stonemason, is usually a
sign of royalty. The Bible claims King Solomon built it. 122
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