Posted on December 11, 2016 by Garrett S. Griffin under Religion The first important lesson history can teach us concerning the pagan influences on modern religion is that the Jews were not the first monotheistic group. Not only did nearby cultures adopt the idea first, the Hebrews were not always monotheistic, continuing to worship many lesser gods long after they accepted […]
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SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SUMER AND THE BIBLE
1. The Creation of the World according to writings’ of Sumer AN shared the universe between two of its sons : NUDIMMUD the god of the sky, and ENLIL his favorite son, who received the supreme authority after that of his Father AN.He reigned over his kingdom that the Sumerians compared to a high mountain… On the mountain of the […]
Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future by Joshua J. Mark:
Imagine something that has never been thought of before. If one holds a book in one’s hands, one can imagine an e-book, a large-print book, a picture book, all kinds of books. But how does one imagine a book in a world where even the concept of a `book’ does not exist? Imagine a day […]
UNVEILING THE MYTHS – DR. ASHRAF EZZAT 5*+
Many are the stories that were told in the Hebrew Bible, but the one story that is yet to be told is the story of the Hebrew Bible itself. Dr. Ashraf Ezzat The relationship with gods/god has always been one of man’s oldest preoccupations, and still is till this very day. While it’s fair […]
Other flood myths with many similarities to the Sumerian story…
Legacy Other flood myths with many similarities to the Sumerian story are the story of the Dravida king Manu in the Matsya Purana, the Utnapishtim episode in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis flood narrative found in the Bible. The ancient Greeks have two similar myths from a later date: The Deucalion and Zeus’ […]
“Herzog is Almost in the Consensus” 5*
Professor Israel Finkelstein, Archaeologist, Tel Aviv University: Professor Herzog is essentially correct. At the beginning of the present century, archaeology in the Land of Israel was carried out with a far more fundamentalistic approach Only at a later stage arose a more sober view and doubts about the reliability of the biblical account of the […]
The Persistence of Myth – Noah Kennedy 5*
American Indian story-telling, an interesting parallel to the myths about the London Jews’ Society Recounting the story of a battle with American soldiers. While working on a chapter on Jerusalem during the British Mandate (1917-1948) I ran into one of the private micro-dramas I assume most writers run into and that I learned long ago […]
PIOUS FRAUD – Maat Raah 5*
The idea that Deuteronomy is the book that King Josiah “discovered” in the temple in 622 BCE, and that its “discovery” was more the result of the text having been recently written than having been lost in the temple, are nearly universally accepted among biblical scholars. Naturally, the question arises as to what temple worship […]
THE LYING PEN OF THE SCRIBES – PIOUS FRAUD
Abstract “Fraud” is not a term commonly used in religious studies. It does not appear in The Encyclopedia of Religion (Eliade 1987); it is absent from Critical Terms for Religious Studies (Taylor 1998); it cannot be found even among the 3,200 articles in The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion (Smith 1995). The absence of “fraud” from […]