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Thread #133746   Message #3037748
Posted By: EBarnacle
22-Nov-10 - 12:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hamlet and the Christmas Tradition
Subject: RE: BS: Hamlet and the Christmas Tradition
Going back to the first postings, Rameses and Moses both derive from the concepts of deliver or bring forth. The case has been presented that the Book of Exodus in the Torah is an allegorical telling of the struggle between the followers of Ra and the followers of the nameless God. The same word is also the origin of the word "Messiah."

A free developmental translation case of the origin of "Hamlet" could be ha-melech, Hebrew for of the king.

As with Shakespeare himself, no one really knows.