Thuthmoses & Gilgamesh?

If you have strong feelings about religion and would be offended by someone suggesting the Bible is false, this isn't the discussion for you.

I was recently studying the "god" Aten, worshipped by Akenaton, the first monotheist, preceeding Abraham. Aten was the disc of the sun, and Akenaton was the first Pharoah to enforce the idea of a single god over a pantheon of polytheism that had taken place in Kemet (Ancient Egypt) for thousands of years and would again after his death.

One of his high priests went by the name Thuthmosis III, and during this man's estimated lifetime (translated from the tomb of Rameses II during whose reign the slaves fled) the Hebrew slaves of Egypt left, led by the Biblical character Moses.

My hypothesis is that Thuthmosis III was in fact Moses. The names are similar, Thuthmosis III was a monotheist, and translations from his "journal" (a tablet found with his mummy) seem to hint that he thought slavery was wrong, or rather, against Aten's wishes.

Similarly, the Epic of Gilgamesh strongly supports that at one point the Black Sea broke its borders and flooded some surrounding plains. Gilgamesh, told in Sumer at roughly 4500 BC, preceeds the Bible by at least 500 years, and also contains a story of a great flood and an ark.

I'm giving a type of sermon on the subject in a small religious group I am part of (no, I'm not a religious leader, it's really a cocktail party of friends) and I thought I'd get some other opinions first.

 

That sounds really interesting. Do you have any sources for this, I'd love to look into it.