We are going to pre-record this show tomorrow. This is good, because if the show turns into a disaster, I can play a rerun Friday morning instead.
Points I want to cover:
1) Biblical Exodus as a portrait of colonial conquest
The basic thesis we are proposing, is that Judaism (like Christianity and Islam) is a synthetic religion that has been invented by the elites, for purposes of controlling and pacifying the masses.
Judaism, we say, was invented by Egypt for use in controlling their colonial outpost in Israel (and, possibly, the Arabian peninsula.)
Freemason symbols seem to embed an Egyptian esoteric view. Pyramids, Eye of Horus, twin pillars of Joachin and Boaz -- all Egyptian.
The OT story of the Exodus depicts a scenario of great political utility to the elite. Namely, a great army is raised by Moses in Egypt, and they go forth to invade and colonize a neighboring country, Israel. The people see themselves as former slaves who have been set free, and given a land of their own.
Their leader, Moses, is seen by the slave people as one of their own. However, he has been raised by the royal family, as though he were a Pharaoh himself. So which is he, really?
Moses meets with God, and brings a set of laws including a set of arbitrary dietary restrictions and ritual practices that are direct inversions of Egyptian practice.
Moses' tribe, the Levites, are set up as priestly rulers over the other tribes. Tribute in the form of temple sacrifices is collected.
The Israelites are constantly backsliding into worshipping their old Canaanite gods. The leadership is constantly trying to get them to follow new practices.
The Israelites are constantly fighting tribal local enemies.
Missing from the Biblical picture is a hidden role for the Egyptian pharaohs, as beneficiaries of the Levitical system. Can a historical - critical analysis provide probable cause to believe that such a link did, in fact, exist?
2) Moses as mythical (or typological) character
Acharya's book "Did Moses Exist" provides comprehensive argument showing that he could not have existed as depicted, but is an accretion of myth.
Moses was an archetypal lawgiver. His birth history was similar to Sargon of Akkad. Laws had similarities to Hammurabi Code. Some similarities to Dionysius are to be noted.
According to archaeology (per Finkelstein) there was no evidence of any writing culture in Palestine prior to the ninth century BC.
The Documentary Hypothesis says that the earliest sources of the Pentateuch, J and E, were compiled as literary works no earlier than the ninth century BC. The process of editing and redaction continued at least until the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, circa fifth century BC. By Biblical chronological dead reckoning, the Exodus was approx. 1500 BC, or about 700 years before the story was written down.
It is hard to believe that any historical information could survive for such a long time?
But....
3) Striking similarities between Exodus and the time of Akhenaten!
To be continued...
Points I want to cover:
1) Biblical Exodus as a portrait of colonial conquest
The basic thesis we are proposing, is that Judaism (like Christianity and Islam) is a synthetic religion that has been invented by the elites, for purposes of controlling and pacifying the masses.
Judaism, we say, was invented by Egypt for use in controlling their colonial outpost in Israel (and, possibly, the Arabian peninsula.)
Freemason symbols seem to embed an Egyptian esoteric view. Pyramids, Eye of Horus, twin pillars of Joachin and Boaz -- all Egyptian.
The OT story of the Exodus depicts a scenario of great political utility to the elite. Namely, a great army is raised by Moses in Egypt, and they go forth to invade and colonize a neighboring country, Israel. The people see themselves as former slaves who have been set free, and given a land of their own.
Their leader, Moses, is seen by the slave people as one of their own. However, he has been raised by the royal family, as though he were a Pharaoh himself. So which is he, really?
Moses meets with God, and brings a set of laws including a set of arbitrary dietary restrictions and ritual practices that are direct inversions of Egyptian practice.
Moses' tribe, the Levites, are set up as priestly rulers over the other tribes. Tribute in the form of temple sacrifices is collected.
The Israelites are constantly backsliding into worshipping their old Canaanite gods. The leadership is constantly trying to get them to follow new practices.
The Israelites are constantly fighting tribal local enemies.
Missing from the Biblical picture is a hidden role for the Egyptian pharaohs, as beneficiaries of the Levitical system. Can a historical - critical analysis provide probable cause to believe that such a link did, in fact, exist?
2) Moses as mythical (or typological) character
Acharya's book "Did Moses Exist" provides comprehensive argument showing that he could not have existed as depicted, but is an accretion of myth.
Moses was an archetypal lawgiver. His birth history was similar to Sargon of Akkad. Laws had similarities to Hammurabi Code. Some similarities to Dionysius are to be noted.
According to archaeology (per Finkelstein) there was no evidence of any writing culture in Palestine prior to the ninth century BC.
The Documentary Hypothesis says that the earliest sources of the Pentateuch, J and E, were compiled as literary works no earlier than the ninth century BC. The process of editing and redaction continued at least until the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, circa fifth century BC. By Biblical chronological dead reckoning, the Exodus was approx. 1500 BC, or about 700 years before the story was written down.
It is hard to believe that any historical information could survive for such a long time?
But....
3) Striking similarities between Exodus and the time of Akhenaten!
To be continued...
