The Bible and Plagiarism: Repurposing the Stories of Old

Thank you Professor. You’re an excellent teacher. You have a great command of both Biblical and ancient history. I could listen to you present for hours !

I think if Christ himself re-appeared to some of the ‘faithful’ here and said, “Nah, it’s all crap, the Romans made it up.” those same ‘faithful’ would crucify him all over again.

My biblical research interest, since 1990, is in identifying the pre-biblical origins of the Bible, in particular, the pre-biblical origins of the Garden of Eden story. I came to discover that Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810-1895) of Britain, who succeeded in translating Babylonian cuneiform by 1857, had shocked the Christian World in 1858 by averring that Eden's Serpent was a recasting of the Babylonian god called Ea (his Hea or Hoa) of ancient Eridu in ancient Sumer, and that Ea was the creator of Mankind in Babylonian myths. He was also the God of Wisdom for the Babylonians. In other words, EDEN'S Serpent, in pre-biblical Babylonian myths was man's Creator. This announcement to the Christian World occurred in a book authored by his brother, titled A History of Herodotus, issued in 4 volumes, in London, England. Not many today (2020) are aware of all this, even in the Academic Community of professional PhD scholars. My research agrees with Rawlinson. I came to understand that Genesis' Garden of Eden account is actually what we would call today, an ANTI-THESIS it was written, in response to, and in refutation of, an earlier Babylonian THESIS about Mankind's origins, why he was created, where, when and by whom, and why Mankind was later nearly annihilated in a global flood. I have written two books on all this, self-published in 2010, and available at Amazon.com, (1) Eden's Serpent: Its Mesopotamian Origins and (2) The Garden of EDen Myth: Its Pre-biblical Origin in Mesopotamian Myths. WHY THIS ANTI-THESIS? The author of Genesis objected to the Babylonian explanation for why man is a sinner! The Babylonians understood man was a sinner because he was made in the image of sinner-gods! Gods, who before man was created, indulged in lies, oath-breaking, murders, rapes, homosexual sex, sex with beasts, incest with mothers, sisters, daughters and grand-daughters, who held man in contempt. The gods had created man to be a gardening slave in their city gardens in the midst of EDIN, a Sumerian term for uncultivated land, translated into English variously as "DESERT," "WILDERNESS," "THE WILD," "STEPPE." The gods are portrayed in early myths as having bodies of flesh and blood, they murder each other and wind up in the underworld called EDIN. Having fleshly bodies the gods can experience hunger and die of starvation if having no food to eat, so they create for themselves fruit-tree gardens in the EDIN. Tiring of the back-breaking labor in maintaining their gardens they create man of EDIN'S clay. Man will care for the gods' gardens in the EDIN, and present to the gods the produce to eat, so that the gods do not die of starvation. Man's purpose in life, then, is to feed the gods, so that the gods don't die of starvation! This is not commonly known information for most Christians. The gods are fed two meals daily, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. In the Bible God is fed two meals daily, morning and afternoon by the Priests at the Temple of Solomon. If God is immortal and cannot die, why should he need two daily meals? It makes no sense! Apparently the Hebrews never questioned why their God needed to be feed daily two meals, like a Mesopotamian god. By clicking on my name, next to my photo, accompanying this comment, you can access my 70 YouTube videos on the Bible's pre-biblical origins, or visit my website, www.bibleorigins.net for more in depth information. All this is to say EDIN'S Gods were recast as EDEN'S God. This is a form of plagiarism. My research into the Mesopotamian myths about the Gods has suggested some accounts were written originally, as tongue-in-cheek satires about the gods, showing them to be foolish, uncaring, short-sighted, bumbling idiots and clowns! What a surprise to see these characters being recast as a noble, ethical, righteous God by the Hebrews, in the Bible.

This was awesome to watch/listen to

Always a pleasure to listen so someone who is educated beyond the sick world system.

The ancient biblical writers could have placed the Jack and the Bean Stalk story in it and people would believe it. Especially the New Testament believers.

only a few seconds listening and I can see a serious, dedicated, humble, professional.

2 thousand to 3 thousand years ago there were no laws concerning copyright. Citations were not commonplace but did occur occasionally. She notes several.

i could watch her all day

Wow!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 In ancient times, someone could write something on a tablet and tell the people that it was written by God.

Who is she? Outstanding

This lady has the knowledge. Wow!

really insightful! thank you for putting this lecture online

An excellent exposition.

How incredibly important her hard work has become. It would be priceless to have her as a team member in the advanced discussions on the deep reality of the oldest communication left around the world yet have a common understanding of what today only a few are able to speak about without the fear of grant study scripted object That its powerful meaning s in the original valued meaning .

The stela at 6:45 is a date. The hour hand (Saturn) points to Capricorn. The minute hand (Jupiter) points to the 1st Point of Aries. The Age of Pisces has come to an end. Now comes the Shen ring of Shamash. Now comes the Beam. Now the equinoxes reverse. Utu takes away the sins of the world on the fourth Ram accompanied by a partial eclipse. (See the headdress of Shamash.)

Very informative.

Notice all the emergence of organized religions, the miracles, the conversations with God , ALL happened back before we understood science and how stuff actually works. People use to bel8eve spirits lived in streams an trees and thunderstorms were the gods fighting in the skies. We acknowledge now that was them trying to make sense of things they didn’t understand. Ditto 2000 old religious tenets. It’s just leftover stories from when we didn’t know what was going on.

After studying the scriptures of sanatana dharma, the worlds oldest religion there are many things that seem to be plagiarized by the jews and later christians. Events, saying, anecdotes and references… has anyone done work on this topic?

Anyone know if this lady has more lectures on youtube , I cant find any ?