Alice C. Linsley
The myth of dual origins appears to be true until one investigates the genealogical information and finds that the kinship pattern of Abraham and Moses is the pattern identified with and unique to the Horites. This should not surprise us since the Bible claims that Moses is a descendant of Abraham and Abraham's people were Horites whose cultural context was that of Egypt and Kush.
Schmid notes that “Explicit literary connections between Genesis and Exodus appear only in Priestly texts or in texts that presuppose P.” This is an important observation because both Abraham and Moses are of the ruler-priest lines. These lines exclusively intermarried, so we should not be surprised to find that a comparison of their kinship patterns reveals that both were Horites.
Moses’ father was Amram. His name means Ruler (ram) of the People (am). He had two wives. Abraham’s father was Terah, also a great ruler, and he had two wives.
By his cousin-wife Amram had a son Korah and daughter Miriam. By his cousin-wife Terah had a son Haran and a daughter Sarah.
By his half-sister wife Amram had two sons: Aaron (which is Harun in Arabic, a Horite name) and Moses. By his half-sister wife, Abraham had a son Isaac and according to Horite law, Ishmael by Sarah’s surrogate Hagar.
Amram’s youngest son was Moses and he was sent away. Terah’s youngest son was Abraham and he too was sent away. (See the essay “Sent-Away Sons.”)
It is clear from analysis of the kinship patterns of Moses and Abraham that they are the same and that both figures of Israel's history were Horites.
Related reading: The Genesis Record of Horite Rule; Who Were the Horites?; Two Named Esau; Who Was Oholibamah?
In Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel’s Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible, the Swiss Bible scholar, Konrad Schmid, argues that the Genesis ancestor narratives and the story of Moses present competing pictures of Israel
The myth of dual origins appears to be true until one investigates the genealogical information and finds that the kinship pattern of Abraham and Moses is the pattern identified with and unique to the Horites. This should not surprise us since the Bible claims that Moses is a descendant of Abraham and Abraham's people were Horites whose cultural context was that of Egypt and Kush.
Schmid notes that “Explicit literary connections between Genesis and Exodus appear only in Priestly texts or in texts that presuppose P.” This is an important observation because both Abraham and Moses are of the ruler-priest lines. These lines exclusively intermarried, so we should not be surprised to find that a comparison of their kinship patterns reveals that both were Horites.
Moses’ father was Amram. His name means Ruler (ram) of the People (am). He had two wives. Abraham’s father was Terah, also a great ruler, and he had two wives.
By his cousin-wife Amram had a son Korah and daughter Miriam. By his cousin-wife Terah had a son Haran and a daughter Sarah.
By his half-sister wife Amram had two sons: Aaron (which is Harun in Arabic, a Horite name) and Moses. By his half-sister wife, Abraham had a son Isaac and according to Horite law, Ishmael by Sarah’s surrogate Hagar.
Amram’s youngest son was Moses and he was sent away. Terah’s youngest son was Abraham and he too was sent away. (See the essay “Sent-Away Sons.”)
It is clear from analysis of the kinship patterns of Moses and Abraham that they are the same and that both figures of Israel's history were Horites.
Related reading: The Genesis Record of Horite Rule; Who Were the Horites?; Two Named Esau; Who Was Oholibamah?
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Aarin in Yoruba means centre or middle and is used in names like
Aarinade: the centre of the crown
Aarinola: the centre of wealth
The root appears to be AR or ARI. There is probably a relationship to the Ar Clans. See
http://biblicalanthropology.blogspot.com/2011/07/clans-of-ar.html
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