A More Viable Myth for Jewish Origins
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 8:03 am
If I was to develop a conspiracy theory about Jewish/Samaritans origins I'd bring together the following:
1. the Pentateuch was written in Hebrew which incorporates Persian words (pardes, eshdat lamo) and Persian concepts (monotheism, pardes as a Persian garden) which most naturally reflects its development in the Persian period.
2. the first four books of the Pentateuch were a unit and Deuteronomy was written later. The four books likely correspond allegorically to the four rivers of Paradise. This is confirmed by the fact that Deuteronomy literally plagiarizes from Exodus (in the original Qumran/Samaritan/circle of R Ishmael form).
3. the 'trinity' of 'the god of Abraham, god of Isaac, god of Jacob' is related to the acknowledged three powers of Philo. In other words Philo's exegesis was the original exegesis. No reason for listing three gods in the Pentateuch and two explicit 'names' of God if the text was a monotheist/monarchic text.
4. if Philo's exegesis was the earliest the core 'center' of Judaism was the conversion of non-Jews/Samaritans to the religion. The key element here is the portrait of Abraham as a convert to a new god who resides at Shechem or where Paradise (His 'home') is at the top of Gerizim which is at once 'heaven' or connected to the earth by a stairway to heaven.
5. Philo's understanding of a 3 step process of becoming a 'son of Man/Israel' likely was part of the conversion process.
As such the ancient dismantling of Jewish conversion/making of proselytes was a recognition or proper divination of the religion viz. 'the Jewish religion is a plot to take over the world.' The Romans tried to take over the world by military force. So did other Empires. The Pentateuch sought to take over the world through religion.
1. the Pentateuch was written in Hebrew which incorporates Persian words (pardes, eshdat lamo) and Persian concepts (monotheism, pardes as a Persian garden) which most naturally reflects its development in the Persian period.
2. the first four books of the Pentateuch were a unit and Deuteronomy was written later. The four books likely correspond allegorically to the four rivers of Paradise. This is confirmed by the fact that Deuteronomy literally plagiarizes from Exodus (in the original Qumran/Samaritan/circle of R Ishmael form).
3. the 'trinity' of 'the god of Abraham, god of Isaac, god of Jacob' is related to the acknowledged three powers of Philo. In other words Philo's exegesis was the original exegesis. No reason for listing three gods in the Pentateuch and two explicit 'names' of God if the text was a monotheist/monarchic text.
4. if Philo's exegesis was the earliest the core 'center' of Judaism was the conversion of non-Jews/Samaritans to the religion. The key element here is the portrait of Abraham as a convert to a new god who resides at Shechem or where Paradise (His 'home') is at the top of Gerizim which is at once 'heaven' or connected to the earth by a stairway to heaven.
5. Philo's understanding of a 3 step process of becoming a 'son of Man/Israel' likely was part of the conversion process.
As such the ancient dismantling of Jewish conversion/making of proselytes was a recognition or proper divination of the religion viz. 'the Jewish religion is a plot to take over the world.' The Romans tried to take over the world by military force. So did other Empires. The Pentateuch sought to take over the world through religion.