Entries by Laurent Guyenot
The Hellenistic Origin of the Torah — A Review of Russell Gmirkin’s Books Part 3 of 4: Plato’s Laws and the Torah
Go to Part 1. Go to Part 2. Under the reign of King Josiah (639–609 bce), during repair work in the Temple, the high priest Hilkiah discovered a “scroll of the Law (Torah)”. It was brought and read to the king, who then convened all his subjects, “priests, prophets and the whole populace,” and read […]
The Hellenistic Origin of the Torah—A Review of Russell Gmirkin’s Books, Part 2 of 4: Exodus and Manetho
Go to Part 1. Is the Exodus a counter-narrative of a story of expulsion? The biblical story of the Exodus has a prologue: the story of Joseph in Genesis 47. Having risen from the status of a slave to that of chancellor of Pharaoh, Joseph favors his kinsmen (despite having been sold into slavery by […]
The Hellenistic Origin of the Torah: A Review of Russell Gmirkin’s Books Part 1 of 4: Genesis 1–11 and Berossus
I’ve heard about Russell Gmirkin’s work for a few years, but it is only very recently that I decided to give it a try. What I had heard of his theories sounded so extravagant that I had assumed it couldn’t possibly be serious scholarship. Well, I can report that it is serious scholarship. Cutting edge, […]
The crucifixion of the Logos: a Jewish coup on the Roman mind
Somewhere in Asia Minor in the late 1st century AD, two philosophers, a Stoic and a Platonist, were sitting at the edge of a marketplace, surrounded by a dozen bystanders. They were debating about the Logos, the divine Intelligence that rules heaven and earth. The Platonist conceived the Logos as an intermediary principle between God […]
Christianity as a Jewish evolutionary strategy
Introduction In recent posts, I have made a series of arguments that the Christianization of the Roman Empire was good for the Jews (here and here) and bad for the Gentiles (here and here), and that it has paved the way for the subversion and subjugation of Western civilization by Jewish Power. Since Christianity is […]
Jewishness and the Culture of Crypsis
Summary: The so-called neoconservatives are crypto-Israelis, comparable to crypto-Jews passing as “New Christians” in the 14th to 17th century. Crypsis is a fundamental aspect of Jewish culture. It is in fact the very essence of Judean monotheism, crafted in the context of the Babylonian exile by having the god of Israel masquerading as the “God […]
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