Genesis 28: Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
2 Peter 2:4 “God did not spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus…” The pit of fallen angels, or demons. The only biblical occurrence of the term Tartarus is 2 Peter where it is forever mistranslated “Hell.”
The oldest complete manuscript written in Hebrew is from the 11th century AD. The first list of the Old Testament manuscripts in Hebrew, were created by Benjamin Kennicott (1718–1783) and published by Oxford in two volumes in 1776 and 1780. 260,000 Hebrew manuscripts were discovered in an old synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, 10,000 of which are biblical manuscripts. Why would manuscripts written in Hebrew be in Egypt? Egypt was primarily Arabic, Egyptian and Aramaic from what was Mesopotamia. Hebrew did not yet exist as a word.
Hebrew script is actually the Phoenician alphabet. Modified sometime around the 6th century AD by scribes.
There was no Hebrew script in ancient history. It was of the Phoenician period between 1500 and 300 BC. The Phoenicians were seafaring marauders who continually attacked the peaceful Minoans of Crete – and are believed to ultimately be responsible for the complete demise of Minoans.
Paleo Hebrew is Canaanite and Aramaic. Meaning Hebrew did not exist. The language spoken by Jesus and his disciples was Aramaic.
DEAD SEA SCROLLS: the 1st century BCE dating states that the Hebrew version is actually paleo Hebrew or – Aramaic. Notably in the Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll.
When carbon dating parchment scrolls made from animal hides, the sample and extracts for producing a carbon date can vary by hundreds or thousands of years depending upon sample pretreatment. As a result carbon dating of all parchments in this context is unreliable.
Ink cannot be dated because it fades and disappears within a relatively short time frame.
In researching ancient history, the terms Hebrew or Jews did not exist. Ancient history is replete with references to the Akkadian, Syriac, and Mesopotamian languages. There is no reference to Hebrew as a language or peoples. There is no mention of Israel or Judah. The scribes that added these terms are from the 11th thru the 16th centuries. Thus creating a manufactured history.
Aramaic, and Greek are the only languages of the Bible. Aramaic originated in Syria – not Israel. The language spread to what is now Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Israel is not even mentioned.
In 500BC – “So called, Jewish people, wrote and spoke in Aramaic.” It is ‘believed’ these magi were sorcerers possibly from the Essenes. Genesis 22:20-24, lists twelve Aramean tribes. The descendants of the Arameans are Christian. Aramaic was the “lingua franca” or the “common language” for the Eastern Mediterranean from roughly 700 BCE to 200 CE.
This is what The Dead Sea Scrolls look like:
From these fragments – the entirety of the modern Hebrew Bible was created. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written on parchment made of processed animal hide known as vellum (approximately 85.5–90.5% of the scrolls), papyrus, aka paper (estimated at 8–13% of the scrolls), and sheets of bronze (copper and tin) composed approximately 1.5% of the scrolls. Copper was not used as a writing medium until the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Scrolls were found in the Qumran Caves in the Jordanian desert and written in Greek and Aramaic. Various arrowheads were also found in the caves. Arrowheads cannot be carbon dated. The fragments of parchment were carbon dated based on the script style. Why couldn’t they date the hides?
The ‘mummified remains of one child’ was inside the cave which historians claim dates from 10,500 years ago. However, bones disintegrate within 10-50 years.
Ink wasn’t fully developed for parchment until the 13th and 15th centuries AD.
The Qumran caves were a part of the Hellenistic Greek culture that spanned the entirety of the Mediterranean. The source for much of the time period is based on Polyblus’, The Histories. His writings are used as the basis of ancient history for the Greeks and Romans beginning around 264 BC. The oldest surviving manuscript of The Histories is dated from the 10th and 14th centuries.
The Qumran dynasty and caves were destroyed by the Romans in 68 AD. It is believed the caves were originally inhabited by the Essenes, a sect of magic/sorcerers who Jesus described as ‘pious simpletons’. Their existence is based on Pliny The Elder, Flavius and Philo of Alexander.
The Essenes
Philo was a Greek Egyptian. All of his original texts are lost. Pliny The Elder’s texts are written in the 13th century. Flavius texts – oldest surviving written in 11th century.
It is postulated that the first ‘ink’ was actually made of ash which fades within days or months. Around the 9th century AD, Iron salts, such as ferrous sulfate (made by treating iron with sulfuric acid), were mixed with tannin from gallnuts (they are protusions that grow on oak trees) and a thickener to make ink. When first put to paper, this ink is bluish-black. It lasts 3-4 years.
It is interesting to note that Parchment is still the only medium used by traditional religious Jews for Torah Scrolls or tefilin and mezuzahs, and is produced by large companies in Israel today.
The oldest Torah scroll in existence is the Bologna Scroll dated from the 13th century although previous dating put it at the 17th century.
Today, scientific techniques supposedly date papyrus ( paper) and can be applied to parchment (hides) as well. They do not date the age of the writing but the preparation of the parchment itself. Dating ‘paper’ is a relatively fictious statement. But the claim exists.
Fabricating a papyrus or even a parchment via the ‘preparation method’ is quite possible.
While it is feasibly possible also to radiocarbon date certain kinds of ink, it is extremely difficult to do due to the fact that they are generally present on the text only in trace amounts. So how is it possible for these ‘trace amounts’ to be preserved for thousands of years?
It is believed that iron gall ink was used for the Bologna Scroll. This ink is believed to have been the standard between the 5th and 19th centuries. The chemicals used to create this ink were not known until the 19th century – 1838 to be exact. One such chemical ingredient is tannic acid which is used in the US in; meat, dairy, baked goods, non alcoholic beverages, alcohol, hard candy and animal fat. In every other country – it is a prohibited carcinogen.
Why do the scientists use the phrase, ‘it is believed’ if they have the scientific processes to ‘know’? I think this was what Kary Mullis emphasized in his critique of NIH and Fauci.
The Old Testament books of Esdras, book of chronicles and book of Malachi and Nehemiah were believed to be written by Esdras who lived in the 5th century.
In dating books and parchments, there is a common caveat that accompanies every single date – ‘it is believed’.
Thank you so much for this and the other articles We are following closely. Don’t worry about the haters just use that as motivation to refine and confirm what you’re doing. This is a topic No one wants to go near,
Take pride in your work. No one gets every detail right but open debate and refinment is healthy. and I’m historical matter and particularly this topic nothing can be said for sure so anyone who claims they know is full of it. Thank you I look forward to more
Thank you – It was a lot of research – some that didn’t make it to the final editing table. Perhaps what many don’t understand is that just because I can show that the vast majority of history was written in the 13th – 16th centuries – it doesn’t mean history didn’t exist – it simply opens the necessity for The People to be granted access to the real truths hidden in the Vatican Vault.
This article shows a great deal of research. But when it comes to research into Biblical topics, a lot of the “source” material is utter nonsense. A big blatant example of this is Dan Brown’s ignorant fiction about the old documents excluded from the authoritative list of canonical books of the New Testament. Some were epistles faithful to Biblical principles, like any commentary, but not considered as so divinely inspired as to be included in the Canon.
Some of those were included in the earliest published King James “Authorized” versions but with disclaimers, and were quickly dropped in following printings.
Others like the one Dan Brown promoted, actually incorporated obvious blasphemies, like the one saying that Mary Magdalene was made a “man” so she could have discipleship, and that otherwise no woman gets salvation.
The Holy Bible tells us that the three languages used on the cross Jesus was crucified on, were Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin (John 19:19). So in the most historically accurate document you have Hebrew named as a language widely enough used to be on a par with the Greek and Latin of the day.
A handy principle to use in studying ancient documents and ancient history is Isaiah 8:20: “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
And remember all the academic proliferation of these ideas is nothing new. Paul stood at Mars Hill in Athens addressing the people described in Acts 17:
“(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)”
alan, the Trutherator
Not sure where to begin. There are so many blatant errors in this poorly written screed. Carbon dating can be off thousands of years? Do you know what carbon dating is? Are you saying there are no archeological finds of bones older than 50 years? Original Aramaic was not written; it was only a spoken language very much like Pali. Couldn’t finish the entire article because of the layers of nonsense in it.
Aramaic was written symbols borrowed by todays’ ‘Jews”. Carbon dating is off – it is based on carbon being a constant since the beginning of mankind. It has been proven in multiple countries, by numerous scientists who test other scientists. The fact that you can’t read, research, or use critical thinking is of course indicative of your mental acuity and basic knowledge. – Everything I say is backed by extensive research.
So what? Got a lot of intact books from BC?
I didn’t think so.
Were you attempting to comment on this article? If so, then read it first.
BC? How could 16th century scribes create history without context? Sort of basic intellect. Devoid of your IQ.
I would like to comment on my own article that this took considerable research and hours to try and put together like a puzzle of 5,000 pieces. I may have left out a piece or ten simply because it would lead down another completely radical rabbit path.
Thank you for putting together this article. It must have taken a lot of work putting pen to paper. I love reading your articles. They are enriching and eye openers!