The Greatest Lie Ever Told*

1. 1. Abraham — the Wandering Star
   

             the origins of Ur and the true significance of the area in which Abraham’s story was set

2. 2.Digging the Dirt on Abraham and Isaac
   archaeological evidence for the story of Abraham and the lack of family morality
   

3. 3. Orion and the Patriarchs
   Judeans of 7C BCE create a history, disguise their Egyptian links and encode sacred secrets
   

4. 4. Moses — One More Basket Case
   the story that revives an old Babylonian legend to boost Judean supremacy and
   the historical evidence that tells us no Exodus ever took place
   

5. 5. David and Solomon — Superheroes
   comic book kings created to glorify a psychopathic God and an imaginary Israelite
   Empire in an arid land; neighbours call it ‘home to hilltop farmers and bandits’
   

6. 6. The Seventh–Century Propagandists
   King Josiah creates a God who makes his people racially superior, orders ethnic
   

cleansing on an unprecedented scale and binds the people to the state forever

7. 7. Holy Book of Horrors
   the scribes enslaved by the Babylonians encode their Egyptian links and return home to a
   country soon to be Hellenised; attempting to oust Alexander’s religions, the Judeans turn
   the fictitious genocide of earlier times into a nightmare reality and the Romans intervene
   

    Part Two  And in the Beginning — Egyptian Monotheism

WH Uffington, The Greatest Lie ever Told