Secret_History

Chapter 10: Who Wrote the Bible and Why? 413
Can we therefore assume that Book I represents the copy mentioned at the
beginning, and Book II (as well as the problems on the verso) another source or
sources? […]
I am of the belief that the sources of Book II (and III, but this needs more
clarification) was either different from that of Book I or else a reworked series of
problems having their origins in the copy that Scribe Ahmose employed.[…]
Significantly, the relationship of one deben of weight to 12 “pieces” can also be
found at the end of the 18 th dynasty, a point that Gardner stressed in his important
breakthrough of the Kahun Papyri.[…]
After the papyrus had been completed, and undoubtedly after some use as a
teaching manual, later remarks were written on the verso in the great blank
following problem 84. […] Upside down, in a different (and thicker) hand than that
of the original scribe, it presents an early case of cryptographic writing. Gunn, in
his review of Peet, was the first to attempt a concise evaluation of the meaning, and
he observed the presence of such writing from Dynasty 19 on, citing examples from
Theban tombs, as well as other monuments from that capital. […]
Following Gunn, I feel that the presence of cryptography at this point ought to
predicate a date within Dynasty 18, and the eventual location of Rhind at Thebes
just may supply some support for this supposition. After all, it is from that city that
we know the most about this so-called enigmatic writing, and such texts are dated
to the New Kingdom and not earlier.
With no 87, located […] roughly in the center, Rhind presents the famous and
highly-debated jottings concerning the taking of Avaris by Ahmose. I feel that it
was added to the middle of the verso, and right side up, so to speak, soon before the
entire roll was transported to Thebes from the north. […]
The brief remarks provide not merely a terminus a quo for the presence of Rhind
later than year 33 of the Hyksos ruler Apophis, they also indicated that a major
historical event was purposively written down on a mathematical tractate, itself
being of high importance and value.
Soon after, Rhind was, I believe, transported back by someone in the victorious
Theban army to the new capital and later used there as a treatise, only to have a
further addition entered (no. 87). […]
I feel that the regnal dates do not refer to the reign of Ahmose but rather to that of
the last Hyksos ruler in Egypt, a position that I am well aware is open to question;
however, the historical event is at least clear: the end of Hyksos control in the
eastern delta (Heliopolis and Sile are noted as having fallen). If we follow Moller,
then the possessor of Rhind at that time felt these major events worthy of a remark