I often term “truths” that I encounter in works of fiction as “Fictitious Truths”.  I was impressed by one in a Frank Herbert Dune book called “The Babylon Problem”: The omnipresent dangers of achieving wrong combinations from accurate information.

 

He included no examples and I couldn’t think of a scenario in which one could be envisioned.  Until I was faced with the enigma of Moses’ Ethiopian wife.  From Exodus 2:21-22 & Numbers 12:1 we arrive at a combination  of conclusions: (1) The Midianite is also an Ethiopian, or (2) Moses married two different women.  However, in drawing these conclusions we also presume that it’s the same Moses.  That combination is wrong.  The conundrum of Moses' wife can only be solved by first disambiguating the correlation between Midianite & Ethiopian.  But how does one do that and find the correct solution to the Babylon Problem?  By interpreting the “correct” info from a combination  of perspectives.  For example:

 

A Moses married a Midianite + A Moses married an Ethiopian = 2 Moseses. One who married a Midianite, and another who married an Ethiopian.

 

Though the perspective of the info has been changed, the integrity of its accuracy has been preserved.

But can it be proved?  Yes!

 

1 Ah-MOSE(S) I married an Ethiopian + 1 Thut-MOSE(S) IV married a Midianite*, which is a Demotic [MiD-AN-i] metathesis [MiD-i-AN] of Egyptian MeT-AN-i (i.e., Mitanni)!

 

Demotic was used during the Ptolemaic Rule of Egypt, when the LXX was written.  What I just demonstrated is simply a heuristic application of my Theophoric Theory.

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* To my knowledge, no images of Mitanni princesses --- as well as any of a Midianite --- have yet been identified in Egyptian iconography.

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