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Author: D. M. Murdock
Publisher: Stellar House Publishing
ISBN: 0979963184
Size: 19.13 MB
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Release Date: 2014
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Did Moses Exist eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The biblical figure of Moses has been the center of fascination for over 2,000 years, but what do we actually know about him? Was he a real person? Did the Exodus truly happen? Or is the story in the Pentateuch a mythical account written centuries after the alleged events? Why does Moses's story resemble that of other, older lawgivers and legendary predecessors? Why are there so many elements of sun and wine god myths in the tale of Moses? What does the focus on the serpent in his story signify? Who were Yahweh and the Elohim? Did Moses Exist? includes: Maps and 126 illustrations Extensive bibliography, table of contents and index Hundreds of footnotes and citations from primary sources in multiple languages Best modern scholarship from credentialed authorities Did Moses Exist? provides a massive amount of information from antiquity about the world's religious traditions and mythology, including how solar myths, wine cultivation and fertility cults have shaped the Bible and Judaism. This book may be the most comprehensive study to date, using the best scholarship and state-of-the-art research methods. "The existence of Moses as well as the veracity of the Exodus story is disputed amongst archaeologists and Egyptologists, with experts in the field of biblical criticism citing logical inconsistencies, new archaeological evidence, historical evidence and related origin myths in Canaanite culture." --"Moses," Wikipedia "There is no historical evidence outside of the Bible, no mention of Moses outside the Bible, and no independent confirmation that Moses ever existed." --Dr. Michael D. Coogan, lecturer on the Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School "We cannot be sure that Moses ever lived because there are no traces of his earthly existence outside of tradition." --Egyptologist Dr. Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian "The life of Moses contains elements--canonical and apocryphal--that mark him as a true mythic hero, and certainly he is Judaism's greatest hero and the central figure in Hebrew mythology." --Dr. David Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology "...the stories of the creation, of the flood, of Abraham, of Jacob, of the descent into and the exodus from Egypt, of the career of Moses and the Jews in the desert, of Joshua and his soldiers, of the judges and their clients, are all apocryphal, and were fabricated at a late period of Jewish history." --Dr. Thomas Inman, Ancient Faiths and Modern Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Who Wrote the Pentateuch? Was Moses an Egyptian Pharaoh or Priest? The Exodus as History? The Exodus in Ancient Literature Hyksos and Lepers Who Were the Israelites? The Exodus as Myth The Lawgiver Archetype The Dionysus Connection The Life of Dionysus The Vine and Wine The Great God Sun Yahweh and the Sun Moses as Solar Hero Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Leonardo Paolo Lovari
ISBN: 8898301790
Size: 55.79 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2016-11-24
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Moses And Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.

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Author: James K. Hoffmeier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199881014
Size: 67.49 MB
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Release Date: 1999-03-18
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Israel In Egypt eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus. The reason for the rejection of the exodus tradition is said to be the lack of historical and archaeological evidence in Egypt. Those advancing these claims, however, are not specialists in the study of Egyptian history, culture, and archaeology. In this pioneering book, James Hoffmeier examines the most current Egyptological evidence and argues that it supports the biblical record concerning Israel in Egypt.

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Book Detail:
Author: Acharya S.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1935487280
Size: 58.53 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2012-09-04
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF The Christ Conspiracy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this highly controversial and explosive book, archaeologist, historian, mythologist and linguist Acharya S. marshals an enormous amount of startling evidence to demonstrate that Christianity and the story of Jesus Christ were created by members of various secret societies, mystery schools and religions in order to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion. In developing such a fabrication, this multinational cabal drew upon a multitude of myths and rituals that existed long before the Christian era, and reworked them for centuries into the religion passed down to us today. Contrary to popular belief, there was no single man who was at the genesis of Christianity; Jesus was many characters rolled into one. These characters personified the ubiquitous solar myth, and their exploits were well known, as reflected by such popular deities as Mithras, Heracles/Hercules, Dionysos and many others throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. The story of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels is revealed to be nearly identical in detail to that of the earlier savior-gods Krishna and Horus, who for millennia preceding Christianity held great favor with the people. The Christ Conspiracy shows the Jesus character as not unique or original, not “divine revelation.” Christianity reinterprets the same extremely ancient body of knowledge that revolved around the celestial bodies and natural forces. The result of this myth making has been “The Greatest Conspiracy Ever Sold.” .

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Author: Charles George Herbermann
Publisher:
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Size: 20.32 MB
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Release Date: 1914
Category: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Language: en
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Download PDF The Catholic Encyclopedia eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: Robert Spencer
Publisher: Bombardier Books
ISBN: 1642938548
Size: 62.59 MB
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Release Date: 2021-07-13
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Did Muhammad Exist eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is there any sound historical evidence that the prophet of Islam actually existed, or is the entire story of Muhammad fable or fiction? It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived as a prophet, as well as a political and military leader, in seventh-century Arabia. But this widely accepted story begins to crumble on close examination. In his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Truth about Muhammad, historian and Islam expert Robert Spencer revealed the often shocking contents of Islamic teachings about Muhammad. Now, in this newly revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist?, he lays bare those teachings’ surprisingly shaky historical foundations. This updated and enlarged version of this acclaimed book examines even more striking and compelling evidence that the story of Muhammad, who for so long was assumed to have lived in the “full light of history,” could be more myth and legend than historical fact. Spencer meticulously examines historical records and archaeological findings, pioneering new scholarship to reconstruct what we can know about Muhammad, the Qur’an, and the early days of Islam. The evidence he presents challenges the most fundamental assumptions about Islam’s origins.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael L. Brown
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 080106063X
Size: 32.74 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2000-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Answering Jewish Objections To Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An honest, fair, and thorough discussion of the issues raised in Jewish Christian apologetics, covering thirty-five objections on general and historical themes.

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Author: David M. Rohl
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Size: 45.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1995
Category: Bible
Language: en
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Download PDF Pharaohs And Kings eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An archeological interpretation of the Old Testament sheds new light on the historical reality of such biblical personages as Moses, Solomon, Joshua, and David, and compares biblical events with archeological evidence.

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Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
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Size: 71.50 MB
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Release Date: 1911
Category: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Language: en
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Download PDF The Encyclopaedia Britannica eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Acharya S
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN: 9781931882316
Size: 71.40 MB
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Release Date: 2004
Category: Buddha (The concept)
Language: en
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Download PDF Suns Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Unlike many modern historians, Perry was a diffusionist who believed that modern civilization began in Egypt and was spread via ships to Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, and even to North America. Perry traces the origin of megalithic culture starting in Egypt, and then across the Pacific. Searching for gold, obsidian, and pearls, they travelled across the Pacific to the American Southwest and Mexico.

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Book Detail:
Author: Chanan Tigay
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780062206428
Size: 32.24 MB
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Release Date: 2017-02-07
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Lost Book Of Moses eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world’s oldest Bible scroll in a desert cave east of the Dead Sea. With his phenomenal find, Shapira swiftly became world famous—but, just as quickly, his scroll was discredited as a clever forgery. With the discovery of the eerily similar Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, however, investigators reopened the case, wondering whether Shapira had, in fact, discovered the first Dead Sea Scroll, seven decades before the rest. Here, in a globetrotting narrative with all the suspense of a classic detective story, award- winning journalist Chanan Tigay sets out to find the scrolls and determine Shapira’s guilt or innocence for himself.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Henry Charles
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Size: 77.85 MB
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Release Date: 1897
Category: Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
Language: en
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Download PDF The Assumption Of Moses eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Assumption of Moses by Robert Henry Charles, first published in 1897, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020308
Size: 49.53 MB
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Release Date: 2009-06-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Moses The Egyptian eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gerard Gertoux
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329445252
Size: 64.91 MB
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Release Date: 2015
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Download PDF Moses And The Exodus Chronological Historical And Archaeological Evidence eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The existence Moses as well as the Exodus is a crucial question because, according to the Bible, the character related to that famous event forms the basis of the Passover which meant the Promised Land for Jews and later the Paradise for Christians. However, according to most Egyptologists, there is absolutely no evidence of Moses and the Exodus in Egyptian documents, which leads them to conclude that the whole biblical story is a myth written for gullible people. However, according to Egyptian accounts the last king of the 15th dynasty named Apopi, “very pretty”, which was Moses' birth name (Ex 2:2), reigned 40 years in Egypt (1613-1573) and met Seqenenre Taa, 40 years later, the last pharaoh of the 17th dynasty who died in May 1533 BCE in dramatic and unclear circumstances (Ps 136:15). The state of his mummy proves that his body received severe injuries and remained abandoned for several days before being mummified. The eldest son of Seqenenre Taa, Ahmose Sapaïr, who was crown prince died in a dramatic and unexplained way shortly before his father (Ex 12:29). Prince Kamose, Seqenenre Taa's brother, assured interim of authority for 3 years and threatened attack the former pharaoh Apopi, new prince of Retenu (Palestine) who took the name Moses, according to Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian. In the stele of the Tempest, Kamose also blames Apopi for all the disasters that come to fall upon Egypt, which caused many deaths. Ironically, those who believe Egyptologists are actually the real gullible ones

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard Carrier
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557044642
Size: 65.29 MB
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Release Date: 2009-01-27
Category: Atheism
Language: en
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Download PDF Not The Impossible Faith eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dr. Richard Carrier is an expert in the history of the ancient world and a critic of Christian attempts to distort history in defense of their faith. Not the Impossible Faith is a tour de force in that genre, dissecting and refuting the oft-repeated claim that Christianity could not have succeeded in the ancient world unless it was true. Though framed as a detailed rebuttal to Christian apologist J.P. Holding (author of The Impossible Faith), Carrier takes a general approach that educates the reader on the history and sociology of the ancient world, answering many questions like: How did Christians approach evidence? Was there a widespread prejudice against the testimony of women? Was resurrection such a radical idea? Who would worship a crucified criminal? And much more. Written with occasional humor and an easy style, and thoroughly referenced, with many entertaining "gotcha!" moments, Not the Impossible Faith is a must-read for anyone interested in the origins of Christianity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Frank Moore Cross
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801865336
Size: 30.70 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2000-11-21
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF From Epic To Canon eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Winner of the Centennial Book Award from the Tuttleman Family Foundation of Gratz College In From Epic to Canon, Frank Moore Cross discusses specific issues that illuminate central questions about the Hebrew Bible and those who created and preserved it. He challenges the persistent attempt to read Protestant theological polemic against law into ancient Israel. Cross uncovers the continuities between the institutions of kinship and of covenant, which he describes as "extended kinship." He examines the social structures of ancient Israel and reveals that beneath its later social and cultural accretions, the concept of covenant—as opposed to codified law—was a vital part of Israel's earliest institutions. He then draws parallels between the expression of kinship and covenant among the Israelites and that practiced by other ancient societies, as well as in primitive societies.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jonathan Kirsch
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307567923
Size: 69.78 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-10-07
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Moses eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and prophet. The only human permitted to converse with God "face-to-face." Moses is the most commanding presence in the Old Testament. Yet as Jonathan Kirsch shows in this brilliant, stunningly original volume, Moses was also an enigmatic and mysterious figure--at once a good shepherd and a ruthless warrior, a spiritual leader and a magician, a lawgiver who broke his own laws, God's chosen friend and hounded victim. Now, in Moses: A Life, Kirsch accomplishes the wondrous feat of revealing the real Moses, a strikingly modern figure who steps out from behind the facade of Sunday school lessons and movie matinees. Drawing on the biblical text and a treasury of both scholarship and storytelling, Kirsch examines all that is known and all that has been imagined of Moses. In these vivid pages, we see the marvels and mysteries of Moses's life in a new light--his rescue in infancy and adoption by an Egyptian princess; his reluctant assumption of the role of liberator; his struggles to wrest his people from the pharaoh's dominion; his desperate vigil on Mount Sinai. Here too is the darker, more ominous Moses--the sorcerer, the husband of a pagan woman, the military commander who cold-bloodedly ordered the slaying of innocent people; the beloved of God whom God sought twice to murder. Jonathan Kirsch brings both prodigious knowledge and a keen imagination to one of the most compelling stories of the Bible, and the results are fascinating. A figure of mystery, passion, and contradiction, Moses emerges from this book very much a hero for our time.

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Book Detail:
Author: J. Warner Wallace
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 1434705463
Size: 29.22 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-01-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Cold Case Christianity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michel Hervé Bertaux-Navoiseau
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Size: 37.90 MB
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Release Date: 2021-05-07
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Download PDF The Birth Of Judaism Between Exegesis And Egyptology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Did Abraham and Moses exist? How could Desroches Noblecourt state that Egypt and not Judaism is at the origin of Christianity? To which stele of Palestine does verse 24: 27 of the Book of Joshua allude? Why did God promise Abraham the whole of Egypt in Genesis 15 and only Canaan in Genesis 17? Why did he order an animal sacrifice in Genesis 15 and circumcision in Genesis 17? Why the eighth-day circumcision? Why did God add a syllable to Abram's name? Why, in the sacrifice of Genesis 15, didn't Abraham cut the birds like the other animals? Why does the Second commandment differ between Exodus 20: 5 and Deuteronomy 5: 9? Why does chapter 34 of the Book of the Exodus rewrite and lengthily comment the Second Commandment? Why didn't Moses want to circumcise his son? What is the great common point between the Koran and the Book of Deuteronomy? Archaeology, history, and exegesis answer those enigmas. Born from a succession of findings that disrupt the reading of the Bible, this little book backs upon the works of Agut and Moreno-Garcia, Albright, Attias and Benbassa, Davidovits, Desroches Noblecourt, Freud, Robichon, Römer, M. And R. Sabbah, Varille, and Wald (Medicine Nobel Prize) notably, to make the history of a utopia: the ephemeral Hebraic civilization created by Abraham and Moses and betrayed by Judaism. Enlightening the Torah by the history of the last five pharaohs of the 18th dynasty and the first four of the Ramesides, and vice versa, it strengthens the hypothesis of the Egyptian origin of the Hebrews (Secrets of the Exodus (Sabbah M. and R., 2000) and makes it a certainty. It confirms, on the one hand, that Abraham's peregrinations are a myth invented by the Jews in Babylon to hide their Egyptian origin (cf. Römer and the Sabbah), on the other hand, that Akhenaten alone existed and that Abraham is an invented name. The Sabbah start from the archaeological report that the Hebrews left no trace in Egypt because they were Egyptians like the others. Followers of Akhenaten's monotheist heresy spurned by the pharaonic order, they had to go into exile and colonized Palestine. They back upon multiple elements: six archaeological proofs, Biblical data, and intercultural comparisons. The latter were reinforced by Le Fabuleux héritage de l'Égypte (Desroches Noblecourt, 2004). Adopting the same historiographical approach and reminding, like them, that the Egyptians invented the alphabet, the famous Egyptologist ended with the criticisms of pseudo-scientific dishonesty. We gathered five other archaeological proofs and several Biblical ones. Römer (Collège de France) saluted our first finding: the Second Commandment is not content with resuming Akhenaten's religious revolution: monotheism and banning idols and images; it also shows, as Genesis 15 and the Book of Deuteronomy allow to make it out, that it prohibited sexual mutilation. That makes the Sinai Alliance a revolution by comparison with the moralizing puritanism imposed upon Abraham and Hebrew baby boys. The why of the circumcisions of Abraham and Moses' son followed that spark. Next came that of the Covenant of Genesis 15. Then, it was the revelation of the apocryphal character of Exodus 34, created from scratch to refute that Exodus 20: 5 forbids feminine and masculine sexual mutilation. Contrary to Judaism, mutilator, xenophobic, and warlike, like the Egyptian civilization, the Hebraic religion was pacifist, cosmopolitan, and respectful of the integrity of the human body. This book counts its crushing between the Egyptian and Judaic civilizations.

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Book Detail:
Author: Behrman House
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
ISBN: 9780807410608
Size: 76.67 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1999-11
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Did Moses Really Have Horns And Other Myths About Jews And Judaism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Why did generations of people grow up thinking that Jews really had horns? Did Eve really eat an apple, and if not, why does everyone think she did? Did Noah's ark really exist? Did Moses really write the Torah? This fascinating book explores these and many other assumptions about Jews and Judaism. Rabbi Sonsino uses history, archeology, and other scholarship to debunk familiar myths, showing how and why they developed over time. This book is for everyone who wants to know more about Judaism and get the real story behind the myth. Book jacket.

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