The biblical book of Proverbs is MUCH larger than the papyrus of Amenemope and only a handful of similarities can be found. Correspondences are few and sketchy. If there was any copying at all, for all we know, Amenemope copied from Solomon or Hezekiah. Furthermore, Amenemope's writings were lost to history centuries before the Hellenic period when you've claimed the entire OT was written.
Be aware that there is dispute about which way any influence goes:
.... only some of the topics in the Egyptian text can be found in Proverbs 22:17-24:22 and that their sequence differs .... R. N Whybray
The Tyndale Biblical Archaeology Lecture, 1975): "The connection so casually assumed is often very superficial, rarely more than similarity of subject matter, often quite differently treated and does not survive detailed examination.
"The parallels that I have drawn between [the ueuetlatolli of the Aztecs], (recorded by Bernardino de Sahagun in the 1500s) and ancient Near Eastern wisdom are in no way exhaustive, but the fact that they can be produced so easily underlines what should be obvious anyway, that such precepts and images are universally acceptable and hence that similar passages may occur in Proverbs and Amenemope simply by coincidence."
There's a biblical proverb that describes you, Mars:
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly"
Why don't you produce the Egyptian "original" of this? After all, you've claimed all the biblical proverbs are copies of proverbs of Amenemope. |
