Where Was Jacob Buried? Dan McClellan’s Dogmatic Historicist Interpretation of The Jacob Solar Myth!
A rigorous examination of Dan McClellan’s critique of Acts 7:15–16 through the theoretical lens of Gerald Massey reveals a fundamental divergence between modern “historical-critical” methodology and the “Comparative-Mythological” gnosis. McClellan identifies these passages as irreconcilable textual contradictions, errors where Stephen (or the author of Acts) conflates Abraham with Jacob and Machpelah with Shechem. However, within
Massey’s framework—spanning The Book of the Beginnings, The Natural Genesis, and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World—these discrepancies are not “errors” of history, but rather the visible “detritus of the Egyptian wisdom” and the “mythos converted into history”.
I. The Mythic Nature of the Patriarchs: Jacob as Ra and Joseph as Iu-sif McClellan’s argument rests on the assumption that Jacob and Joseph were historical individuals whose burial locations must be factually consistent. Massey, conversely, identifies the patriarchs as “personifications belonging to the celestial allegory”.
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