It is not from the Bible or the Koran that Black Africa got the idea of one God, unknowable and transcendent. Quite the contrary: from as far back as pharaonic Egypt, Africa has known of the concepts of divine unity ('Amon is One') and transcendence ('He hides from the gods, so that none knows his appearance '). In fact, the Bible and the Koran came many centuries after the articulation of ideas concerning the nature of Divinity in ancient Egypt."
P. 544, AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: THE PHARAONIC PERIOD 2780-330 BC by Theophile Obenga (2004)
Friday, January 19, 2018
PRE-BIBLE, PRE-KORAN AFRICA
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It is not from the Bible or the Koran that Black Africa got the idea of one God, unknowable and transcendent. Quite the contrary: from as far back as pharaonic Egypt, Africa has known of the concepts of divine unity ('Amon is One') and transcendence ('He hides from the gods, so that none knows his appearance '). In fact, the Bible and the Koran came many centuries after the articulation of ideas concerning the nature of Divinity in ancient Egypt."
P. 544, AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: THE PHARAONIC PERIOD 2780-330 BC by Theophile Obenga (2004)
It is not from the Bible or the Koran that Black Africa got the idea of one God, unknowable and transcendent. Quite the contrary: from as far back as pharaonic Egypt, Africa has known of the concepts of divine unity ('Amon is One') and transcendence ('He hides from the gods, so that none knows his appearance '). In fact, the Bible and the Koran came many centuries after the articulation of ideas concerning the nature of Divinity in ancient Egypt."
P. 544, AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: THE PHARAONIC PERIOD 2780-330 BC by Theophile Obenga (2004)