Friday, November 7, 2025

Iaho Sabaoth (Lord of Hosts) Being Called "the Great God" in an Egyptian Text

 In the article “God Sitting Upon This Throne (Facsimile 2, Figure 7)” from Pearl of Great Price Central, we read the following concerning Min:

 

. . .  in one ancient Egyptian text the divine figure Iaho Sabaoth (Lord of Hosts) is also afforded the epithet “the Great God” (pȝ nṯr ˁȝ)

 

The reference is:

 

John Gee, “The Structure of Lamp Divination,” in Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies Copenhagen, 23-27 August 1999, ed. Kim Ryholt (CNI Publications 27; Copenhagen: The Carsten Neibuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2002), 211-12

 

As this book is very rare, I am providing a scan of the pages:

 







 

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