Who created the Bible, How, Why and When

 

According to Tacitus the Jewish religion was nothing more than a superstition so the question arises why was this so and how did it come into being.

 

In Hellenistic times the population of Syria-Palestine consisted primarily of indigenous Syrians, Phoenicians, Arabs and Egyptians.

 

There is no mention in any ancient texts prior to the Roman period of any people called Jews, Israelites or Hebrew inhabiting the land. Their existence is merely a conjecture based on the claims attributed to the bible which no Hellenistic, Roman or Egyptian writer took seriously. The times that they are mentioned it is always in a manner of derision.

 

Modern DNA research shows that today’s “Jews” are indistinguishable form Syrians, Arabs and Palestinians because they map directly onto these groups. But they have no similarity to northern African populations such as the Ethiopians or Egyptians. It would not be possible to distinguish most Jews from Syrians or Palestinians by looking at their DNA, but they can easily be differentiated from Egyptians.

 

A serious problem arises in that the archaeological, anthropological and historic evidence of the 1^st century AD shows that the so-called “Jews” of this time have the characteristics of northern African populations, ie they have robust rather than gracile skulls and depictions claimed to be from Synagogues show them with a dark complexion and short curly hair. These people cannot have possibly been the biological ancestors of the Jews of toady.

 

Further more the historic and genetic evidence form the time of Genesis shows that up until 1200 BC the population of Syria-Palestine was of European origin, being predominately Hittite. The so-called Canaanites/Phoenicians are also thought to be of European ancestry and carry the DNA marker of one of the so-called “7 daughters of Eve” called “Jasmine”. So yet again these people which the bible implies were the ancestors of the biblical “Jews” cannot possibly be the biological ancestors of the Jews of today.

 

The archaeological evidence in Palestine and Babylon from 1200 BC until 300 BC shows that the dominant religion was the Tammuz and Osiris cult. There is not a trace of "Judaism" until 65 BC. Most obviously no 7 branched candle sticks have ever been found. No boxes carrying Hebrew prayers from the Torah have been found in doorways or on leather arm straps as is the “Jewish custom”.  No Synagogues, Priests robes patterned with blue fringes or temples have ever shown up. True the names of the kings of Israil and Ioudia appear in Assyrian inscriptions, but that does not constitute the existence of the “Jewish” religion as it is known today.

 

Israil was nothing more than a geographic term used to describe Syria-Palestine as is only too obvious by looking at the Moabite stone inscription which gives Omri a reign of 40 years compared to only 12 given in the bible. This implies that he reigned over Israil at the same time as 4 other biblical kings reigned over the same land. The only way to accommodate this is to assume that there were many kings of Israil reigning at the same time in different parts. The bible is only concerned with the history of the kings that reigned in Samaria. To reinforce this point, Herodotus always describes Palestine as a part of Syria even long after the Aramens or Syrians were conquered by Assyria and lost their empire.

 

In the Assyrian inscription on the Prism of Senacherib, the 3^rd campaign of this king is called the campaign against the Hittite land. But the kings named include those of the Phoenician city Sidon and Ezikia the king of Jerusalem. No kings are specifically described as Hittite, even though this is a campaign against them, so Hittite must be a blanket term refer to all the kings listed. It is odd that the Assyrians would still mention the Hittites when the Hittite empire in Palestine ceased in about 1000 BC. Clearly the Assyrians regarded all the inhabitants of Palestine as Hittites even the Phoenicians and the Ioudai, in the same way that Herodotus regards these same people as nothing more than Phoenicians.

 

 

Linguistically, “Ioudai-os” can be seen to derive form the word Hittite, which in Greek is “Hettai-os”, via “Heddai”, based on Grimms Law of Consonantal Shift. Tacitus states that the Jews may have been a tribe originating from Crete called the “Idaei”, which “came to be called Judaei by a barbarous lengthening of the national name”. Clearly this is the intermediate linguistic form between the words Hettai and Ioudai. According to Herodotus a colony of Carians from Asia-Minor is said to have been established in Crete form the time of Minos who served as mercenaries.

 

At Chemmis in Egypt Herodotus (2.91.1) identifies a people that observed the same religious customs as the Greeks including the practise of holding funeral games which no one else practised in Egypt who claimed that they were of the same family as Perseus who dates to a century before Minos. Herodotus also says that Ionian and Carian mercenaries were the first foreigners to ever be allowed to settle in Egypt in around 664 BC and their children became Egypt’s translators. The Elephantine texts dating from Persian times call these people the Yahunim, which is the Aramaic corruption of the Persian and Egyptian term “bar-Yunni” meaning sons of Ion, and a name given to the Ionian Greeks which continued to be used by the Ottoman Turks to descried the “Yunni” or Greeks of Asia-Minor and the “Jannisares” Greek children who were kidnapped form their parents and force to serve in the Ottomans forces. The term “Judahite” as given above infers that Ezikia is the king of the Ionian-Hittites. These people were most probably descended from the Sea-Peoples who came to Palestine in the Reigns of Horemheb and Ramses III and were a mixture of Hittites and Achaeans or Akki-Yahua. Clearly the Sea-Peoples were Europeans, as is shown by their tribal names, not Afro-Asiatics, therefore they can be no relation to today’s “Jews” who are related to the Arabs and Syrians.

 

Who was the real God of the Jews.

 

As we have seen earlier from the writings of Eusebius the original religion practised in Syria-Palestine was the ancestor worship of the king as a God, so for example Baal was both a king of the Tyrians and also a god.

 

Likewise the other inhabitants of Syria-Palestine including those of Israil and Ioudia worshiped their kings as a gods along with the other deities of the state pantheons. According to Porphyry (as quoted by Eusebius in “Preparation for the Gospel” 1.9) the Jews worshiped the same pantheon of Gods as the Phoenicians and even in his day these Gods were recognised to have once been mortal men and women.

 

Each city-state had its own patron Gods and Goddesses and the patron God of the cities of Jerusalem and Samaria was Yam, Yah or Ieuo, and the patron Goddess was Astoreth who was a combination of Ashura and Astarte who were daughters of El.

 

Ahab, the king of Israel is referred to on the Black obelisk of Shalmaneser as “Yahua the son of Khumri (Omiri)” and on the Moabite Stone as “Yahweh” and said to be the son of Omri. In other inscriptions Achaz is also called Yahaz and Hezikiah is also called Heziyahu. Other biblical figures pay tribute to the God El by using his name in their own names such as Samuel, Daniel, Ezekiel and so on.

 

There is no correct way or transliterating the Hebrew expression “YHWH” and as well as being written Jehovah, or Yawheh it can also be written Ayahaewah.

 

It emerges that when written like this, Ayahaewah appears to be a corruption of the Hittite word Ahhiyawa which was their name for the Achaean Greeks who the Egyptians identified as the Ekwesh who were listed among the Sea Peoples. In Homeric Greek they were called Akhaiwoi. Herodotus says they were called Aegialean Pelasgi or Pelasgi of the Sea Shore where Gialo means Sea.

 

Ekwesh = Eyakiwash = Ayahiwash = Ayahaewah = Akhaiwoi = Ahhiyawa = Aegialea = Achaean-ous = Ochean-ous = Sea Peoples.

 

Based on what has been discussed so far and Manethos identification of Seti II as the Pharaoh of the Exodus it is clear that the Sea Peoples were the real people of the Exodus who the bible subsequently mythologies into the ancestors of the “Jews”. The Jewish author Joseph Yahuda in his book “Hebrew is Greek” (Becket Publications of Oxford, England (ISBN O 7289 0013 O) also comes to this conclusion by showing that biblical Hebrew is a corruption of ancient Greek.

 

The other Sea Peoples included the Peleset or Philistines who were followers of Dagon or Dionysus (their leader and first king) who in about 1400 BC along with an army of Athenian Pelasgians campaigned and founded a colony in Syria-Palestine. The land may have been a gift from Amenhotep III (Amon) for Dionysus assisting him to power.

 

From Egyptian we get:

 

Peleset = Philistines = Pelasgians = Thallasians = Sea Peoples.

 

According of Herodotus Greece was originally called Pelasgia which means Land of Islands.

 

So if the Ekwash or Achaeans were the real people of the Exodus which is dated to 1193 BC then they must have taken the Greek word Agios/Agion/Agio as the title of their kings, which when corrupted into Hebrew or Aramaic becomes Yahu or YHWH, and is found in virtually all of the names of the “Jewish” kings. The Achaeans who invaded Palestine and Egypt were Sea Peoples and they were therefore identified with the Phoenician Sea God Yah or Yam. These peoples included the Danaioi who the biblical tribe of Dan were named after.

 

Just like the Assyrians incorporated the names of their ancestors Adad, or Vul, or Enlil into the names of their kings all of which were interchangeable, the “Jews” did the same with their patron Gods .

 

The term Ayahaewah is also found corrupted in the names of two Egyptians Pharaohs of the 15^th and 16^th Dynasties, Yakubher and Yahobaam who are probably the basis of the Phoenician Sea God Yam who is treated as a deified king in the Ras Sharma Tablets which date to 1400 BC. His presence in the Phoenician pantheon as a Sea God and the fact that in Hebrew the word Yam means sea and his other title Nahar means River indicates a Greek origin for the name in the word Gialo and is therefore related to the names of the Greek Sea Peoples the Akhaiwoi and Aegialeans. The titile Yam-Nahar seems to indicate that his domain included the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea and the Rivier Jorden, which links them.

 

But who are today’s Jews.

 

After the conquest of Alexander the Great most of Syria-Palestine was Hellenised within a generation. The southern part was an Egyptian vassal until Antiochus Epiphanies conquered Egypt and took southern Palestine for himself.

 

 

Antiochus IV Epiphanes at the request of the people who wanted independence from Egypt replaced the High Priest Jesus (Jason) with another Onias (Meneleus) who was not of the priestly line. The national superstition including the practice of circumcision and the practice of similar barbaric customs that were imported from Egypt were to be replaced by more civilised practices. Antiochus and the Jewish priesthood which wanted freedom from Egyptian rule did not want any Egyptian customs to continue since this would allow Ptolemy to control the people of the newly acquired southern provinces who had previously been vassals of Egypt.

 

The old superstition then became a political tool which was used by a tribe of Bedouin Arabs, the Hasmodians or Maccabees who wanted to gain power themselves, as a basis to ignite campaign of terror which eventually lead to an all out civil war.

 

Starting out as bandits Mattathias and his sons Judas Maccabeeus, Jonathan, Simon and John robbed and murdered the local populous and terrorised the highways. In order to do this with impunity they characterised their banditry as a campaign of defiance and liberation struggle, so they staged publicity stunts such as refusing to sacrifice to the Gods and toppled altars and destroyed shrines, which were being used for the worship of Zeus. The 1^st Book of Maccabees indicates that Judas himself worshiped Ouranos (Baal-Shamen or Shamu), who he called upon by raising his arms in the air in the manner of the pagans.

 

Since the practise of Circumcision, which had been introduced to the land by the Egyptians, was considered barbaric the people refused to follow it. The Maccabees wishing the support of local clergy sympathetic to Egypt decided that Circumcision must be maintained, so they kidnapped children from their families and forcibly circumcised them. Naturally this sparked outrage in the Syrian government and the Maccabees and their supporters were sought out and hanged to set an example to others that their war against civilisation would not be tolerated.

 

Eventually the Maccabees captured Jerusalem and forced all the Phoenician, Syrian, Arab, and Egyptian inhabitants to accept their rule or face death. Judas was then made High Priest, even though he was not of the priestly line, and desecrated the alter of Zeus (The Phoenician God Baal-Hadad) in the temple replacing it with an altar to the Arab God Orotalt (The Phoenician Dagon or Zeus-Arotrios) the who was worshiped with ivy wreathed wands in the manner of Dionysus (2Ma 10:7). The Jews living in Egypt at this time had already been branded with the Ivy Leaf mark of Dionysus by Ptolemy Philopater to show that they were permitted into the mysteries so the institution of the worship of Dionysus by Judas Maccabee can be seen as an act of allegiance with Egypt.

 

Judas sought to make and alliance with the Romans in order to keep hold of power so needed to stake a prior claim to the land. This he did by concocting the Bible which was a compilation of all the local creation myths, ancestry tales and legends of the kings who ruled over Jerusalem and Samaria. In order to bind them all together he created a common narrative and made all the kings irrespective of origin decedents of each other thus creating and unbroken line from Adam to himself. The main chronology was derived form the annals of the Egyptians and Tyrians which the Greeks had recently translated and placed in the Library of Alexandria and thus the story of the writing of the Septuagint was created as well. 

 

Thus was born the Pentateuch, the first 5 Books of Moses. After years of grave robbing the Maccabee kings had discovered the existence of the previous inhabitants of the land and thus an extinct Indo-European people the Ioudai, the last people to rule the land before the Babylonians and Persians made a perfect choice to use as false ancestors since dead people can’t defend themselves.

 

Presenting this forgery to the Romans the Maccabees were able to gain an alliance. The same method was also used to gain an alliance with the Spartans who the Maccabees claimed were descended from Abraham. The only possible way for such a link would have been through the tribe of Dan being linked with the Danaioi.

 

The square script that the Jewish Bible is written in today, “Jewish Script” did not come into existence until Hellenistic times, and is a derivative of Aramaic Script which itself derives from Phoenician Script. Jewish Script bares no resemblance to the script misleadingly termed “Old Hebrew Script” which is almost identical to normal Phoenician script dating back to 1000 BC. The so called “Old Hebrew Script” became extinct in 400 BC and was replaced by “Samaritan Script” which itself become extinct early in the first century. “Jewish Script” derives from neither of these but is a descendent of Aramaic script and thus suggests that the people who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls were Syrian in origin.

 

At this point there was no distinct religious content in the Bible. There was no mention of any of the Gods such as YHWH, Elohim, El , Shaddai, Elyon, Adonai and Tseboath who appear in the Hebrew Massoretic Text today but instead the original names of the historical persons who were involved in the historical narrative such the Pharaohs of Egypt were written as they were.

 

The Bible was nothing more than a chronology of Egyptian tyranny over Palestine from the point of view of the Egyptians, from which the populous had been struggling to free themselves for centuries. If it had been written from the point of view of the kings of Israil and Ioudia and their descendents why would it continually insult them.

 

After the bible was written its authors influenced by the works of Homer sought to increase its popularity by inserting the names of the Phoenician Gods who the majority of the populous worshiped, in the place of the names of the Egyptian Pharaohs and other key protagonists and when natural forces acted.

 

Composite terms such as YHWH Elohim referred to ancient Phoenician mythology where the Elohim were the Gods allied with El when he fought his father for the kingship, thus they meant to say that YHWH was of the Elohim where the Elohim or allies of El. This form of title YHWH Elohim is similar to the term used by Herodotus to refer to Darius when he was Pharaoh of Egypt, which in Greek becomes Kudos Basileus (Great King) and means nothing more than King of Kings. The kings in this instance being the Elohim.

 

Over the course of time the biblical text and narrative evolved and was altered for political reasons so that when the Romans conquered Palestine in 65BC the Jews, inhabitants of Judea, so called after Judas Maccabee, had turned the bible into a religious text in order to preserve their independence by removing almost all the references to Pharaoh’s name and concealing it with YHWH the title of the former kings of the land and the Phoenician Sea God Yam who had once ruled the land and was the patron God of the city of Jerusalem which Judas Maccabee made his capital. Only the Priests knew what YHWH really meant and they took the secret with them to their graves.

 

By the time of Herod the Greek version of the text was dominant and in this version all of the Phoenician Gods names Yah, Elohim, El , Shaddai, Elyon, Adonai and Tseboath had been replaced by the Greek word Theos or by Kyrios Theos. This coupled with the fact that when the Roman General Pompey found the Jewish temple completely deserted of all figures when he entered it led to the creation of monotheism.

 

The bible made out that the subjects of the Maccabees were all from the same stock, even though this was not true, in order to create a unifying national identity. This is what led to the distain held against the Jews by almost everybody, and mostly by the Egyptians, since they all knew what the Maccabee “Jews” real origins were and that they had no relation to their alleged ancestors in the bible who were all prior inhabitants of the land and Egyptian vassals. The Mittani whose identity was plagiarized to form the chronology of the middle part of Genesis, were still extant in the time of Herodotus, so the deception was obvious.

 

The Book of Jeremiah which describes a proclamation of Pharaoh Necho II surrendering his lands in Syria-Palestine to Nebuchadneser shows Necho II characterised as the Lord God of Israil. His territory includes Tyre and Moab which clearly never followed and form of any “Jehovah” cult but were Egyptian vassals at the time, as we are told by the Bible itself, when Necho defeated Josias, 2 Kings 23:29 and by Herodotus, 2.159.1.

 

Why would a real God surrender his people to Nebuchadneser and order them to obey him on pain of death, at the same time Necho is known to have signed away Egyptian vassals to the same Babylonian king, unless Pharaoh and “god” were one and the same.

 

 

The bible turned the tyranny of the Pharaohs over Palestine in to a religion of one god. This god since he was a combination of all the Pharaohs had the character of a schizophrenic tyrant, that unlike the Gods of the Greeks and Romans, demanded complete obedience and tribute in order to pacify him.

 

The Maccebee’s and their descendents succeeded in perpetrating the greatest deception and falsification of history ever achieved and forced the people of Palestine to accept by proxy the tyranny of the Pharaohs which they had been struggling for generations to escape from by making Pharaoh into their god, which was something the Pharaohs never accomplished in their own lifetimes.

 

So how was did they do it?

 

When the Macedonian Greeks ruled Egypt, Babylon and Syria-Palestine all of the knowledge of the land was translated into Greek and placed in the library of Alexandria in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphos.

 

From Herodotus we know that Syria-Palestine was inhabited primarily by Arabs, Syrians and Phoenicians and the religion which was practised there was that of the ancient Canaanites.

 

The city-state of Jerusalem was a centre of the worship of the Canaanite God Yam (Jehovah) as was Samaria. Jerusalem’s priests would have kept a record of the history of the city and this would have included details of is past kings from Roboam to Godolias. Samaria’s priests would have done the same and recorded the details of the past kings from Ieroboam to Osie. These histories would have also included the kings or governors who reigned before Roboam and Ieroboam and those after Godolias and Osie which would have covered the 2000 years which the Canaanites had been present in the land. All of these were available in the Library of Alexandra from about 260 BC.  

 

When the Maccabees conquered Jerusalem and then moved on to take the cities around it they wanted to unify the land and its people around them so they took the extant historical records and manipulated them to create a Judean identity. A possible way in which they did this is shown in the table below.

 

 

Once the real history of the region have been dissembled by the Maccabees the Canaanite Gods were introduced into it in the place of historical figures in the same that that they were in Homers Iliad and Odyssey which would have been widely available at the time. This created a mythical pseudo-religious history, which formed the basis of the Old Testament. Since Yam was the primary God of Jerusalem he played a key role in this mythical history.

 

When the history was translated into Greek the names of seven Canaanite Gods were all syncretised or merged into one giving rise to the Jewish religion as it is known today. New mythical texts were still being written in the first century AD including the Books of Enoch and Noah and new beliefs were being incorporated. This laid the basis of Messianic Judaism where within a century of the Old Testament being created the Jews started to believe that their mythical prophets would be reincarnated and return to save them. From this the religion of Christianity evolved from the deification of a crucified Jew who had managed to escape death on the cross, merged with the Neo-Platonist teachings of Apollonius of Tyana and eventually went on to become the dominant religion.

 

 

 

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