TY - JOUR AU - Kambon, Ọbádélé Bakari PY - 2020/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Editorial Book Critique: The Origin of the Word Amen: Ancient Knowledge the Bible has Never Told JF - Ghana Journal of Linguistics JA - GJL VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.4314/gjl.v9i1.368 UR - https://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/article/view/368 SP - 72-96 AB - <p><em>The Origin of the Word Amen: Ancient Knowledge the Bible has Never Told</em> is a book that promises to excite the interest of any reader interested in classical &nbsp;Kmt ‘Black Nation/Land of the Blacks’, &nbsp;mdw nTr ‘Hieroglyphs,’ the Akan language, and historical/linguistic connections between the three. Specifically, the book promises to deliver information about how the word &nbsp;imn ‘Amen,’ as attested in classical &nbsp;Kmt ‘Black Nation/Land of the Blacks,’ persists in the contemporary Akan language. While, under a steady hand this should be a simple enough thesis to substantiate, unfortunately, the authors’ obvious lack of grounding in historical linguistics, their lack of knowledge of &nbsp;mdw nTr ‘Hieroglyphs’ as well as their lack of understanding the morphology (word structure) of the Akan language all mar the analyses presented in the book.</p> ER -