Prophets (eBook)

Chapter 1

Religious cosmologies, embraced by the Israelites, were conveyed to them by peoples, with whom they came into contact.

The rewrite of Israelitic writings during their Babylonian captivity, 597-538 BC.

In depth research revealed that Israelitic priests rewrote their foundation documents during their Babylonian captivity, 597-538 BC, with a survivalist strategy. In their captivity they were facing the threat of losing their national identity, and wanted to secure their posterity going forward (Adams E.A., The Beginnings). It was found that Ezra claimed that the Torah was burned during the destruction of Jerusalem, c., 587 BC, and saw the need to rewrite their foundation documents to show what God purportedly did from the beginning (2 Esdras 14:19-22, The Apocrypha, King James Version).

2 Esdras 14

19 Then answered I before thee, and said, 20 Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? Thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light. 21 For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin. 22 But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.

Evidence shows that they not only rewrote what appeared in their prior writings, but revised their history to include additions, which would give them their best chance of surviving as a nation going forward. It was found that they updated these writings with a genesis account based on Sumerian myths and included aspects of what was regarded as perceived world history. In addition to this, they made their new history plausible by writing updated versions of their history, and interposed these into their Psalter (see evidence for this in Adams E.A., The Beginnings). They followed this up after their Babylonian captivity by writing their Chronicles accounts, which supported the various contrivances written into their foundation documents. Furthermore, they created a story about a ‘lost book’, which the Israelitic priests ‘found’, during a temple renovation during the reign of Josiah (2 Kings 23), purportedly shortly before going into their captivity. They used this in support of many of their novel accounts now appearing in their rewritten Tanakh.

Startling research findings include the following (see Adams E.A., The Beginnings, for many proofs and evidences);

• The Israelitic priests adopted the motif of having God speak in the first person in their writings, as was the custom with religious writings in the Levant and Mesopotamia at that time. Generally, if writings did not portray God speaking in them, they were not regarded as highly. It was found that most of the Pentateuch was not personally spoken by God, but was a portrayal of what the priests wanted to depict in their rewritten foundation documents.
• The Babylonians had established their genesis account, Enuma Elish, which appeared in seven tablets (on which the seven days of creation were styled), which spoke of the creation of the universe, with their gods resting once man had been created. These included the creation of the earth, the firmament, the stars, and the waters of Tiamat being left in the heavens as a covering for the firmament. During their Babylonian captivity, Israelitic priests largely styled their genesis account on Babylonian and Sumerian myths.
• We show that the Biblical creation account of the heavens, plants, fish, birds, and animals, were based on earlier Sumerian and Babylonian myths, and in The Beginnings, it is shown precisely on which myths these were based.
• The Mesopotamians depicted their creation of the world, locating their land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. They developed a myth on how a garden of the gods, called ‘Edin’, i.e., a Sumerian word meaning the ‘straits’, was located between the two rivers, and was abundant with foods, fish, and birds. Stories of the mythical garden between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers existed apart from the biblical record (Cory, Ancient Fragments, Berossus), on which Israelitic priests styled their Garden of Eden account.
• The Babylonians produced a popular myth depicting the fall of Adapa from communion with the gods, through knowledge passed on to him by the gods, and through this became mortal, and was banished to the earth (Hallo W.W., Context of Scripture, The Adapa Story). The priests styled the creation of Adam on various Sumerian and Babylonian myths and showed how Adam and Eve were excommunicated from the presence of God.
• The Babylonian history contained a genealogy from their first man up until the establishing of their dynastic orders (Jacobsen T., The Sumerian King List). They had an antediluvian genealogy with ten characters, with their first man, Alulim, being the originator of mankind. Enmeduranki was depicted as the seventh king and a priest of God, who was translated to the heavens. The ninth and tenth, being the father of the flood hero and his son, Ubartutu and Ziusudra, who escaped the flood in an ark (Adams E.A., The Beginnings).
• The Tower of Babel and the Giants of Anak mythologies existed prior to the commencement of Israelitic biblical accounts. Whilst in Babylon, these were included by the Israelitic priests in their rewritten foundation documents, as perceived world history (Adams E.A., The Beginnings).
• They had myths regarding the giant sons of the gods that visited the Levant and Mesopotamian regions at the start of the Bronze Age, who passed their religious cosmologies onto them, and were regarded as men of renown. We show these to be the Nordic ‘sons of god’ who visited these areas in the Levant early in the Bronze Age and possibly earlier. Furthermore, we show how the myth of the fallen angels developed out of the Giants of Anak story, when the Nordic ‘sons of god’ married local women, and produced giants. These Nordic ‘sons of gods’ were grouped together with the angels, who were also called ‘sons of god’ from the time of the Babylonian captivity, and are reflected as such in the Book of Enoch 106.
• There was never a person named Cain who lived before the flood, nor was there a man named Ham, or his son Canaan, who lived after the flood, all of whom were purportedly cursed, either by Noah, or God. It has been found that the motive for the curses pronounced over these personages, was in retaliation against the Canaanites, who had become enemies of the Israelites, who they wanted to remove from Canaan, purportedly at the behest of God. Their curse on Ham was directed at the Egyptians, who failed to support the Israelites against the Babylonians, as arranged.
• It has been shown that there never was a universal flood during the Neolithic Period c., 10,200 BC to the Bronze Age, c., 3,300 BC, and that their antediluvian genealogy was based on the Sumerian Antediluvian King List, which was not factual, but based on mythological writings (Adams E.A., The Beginnings). There was a localized flood in the Persian Gulf Valley, c., 7,000 BC, caused by rising sea levels after the last Ice Age. It has been shown that the three sons of Noah, i.e., Ham, Shem, and Japheth, through whom the whole earth would supposedly be repopulated, never existed. Noah was styled on the Gilgamesh myth of Utnapishtim, later Ziusudra, who saved humanity with a wooden boat on which family, friends, and animals were accommodated.
• Ham was based on the Land of Khem, i.e., Khem meaning ‘dark’ and related to the fertile dark soil on the sides of the Nile delta, with Shem being styled on the Coptic and Egyptian word ‘Shemmo’, meaning foreigners, which the Israelites were also referred to during their stay in Egypt. The word Japheth, meaning ‘may he extend’, included the remaining tribes such as the Persians, and is why they state that Japheth will inhabit the tents of Shem (Genesis 9:27), meaning that the Japhites would be friendly towards the Shemites, i.e., the Israelites (Walvoord, John F. ; Zuck, Roy B., The Bible Knowledge Commentary). This was written as an ex post facto element of prophecy, showing that the Medes and the Persians would be favorable towards them, showing that this was written during their Babylonian captivity.
• In their endeavor to show how these countries were allegedly founded after the flood, it is detailed how Israelitic priests used the names of existing lands in their known world, to name Noah’s purported family members to show how the world was supposedly repopulated (Genesis 10:2-21). It is shown clearly in The Beginnings that many of the names of these countries were derived from particular circumstances and were not named after Noah’s supposed descendants, i.e., Madia (Media) comes from Proto-Indo European (PIE) ‘med(h)’, meaning, ‘central, situated in the middle’ (Tavernier J, Iranica in the Achaemenid Period ca. 550-330 BC. p. 27). Sheba (Saba, Sa’abia, Sheba means ‘from Saba’). Saba in Arabic means ‘gentle breeze’ and probably relates to the gentle breeze...