The birth of Judaism, between exegesis and Egyptology

By Michel Herve Bertaux-Navoiseau

Is there a link between the Ten Commandments and Ancient Egypt?
Did Abraham and Moses exist?
To which stele in Palestine does verse 24: 27 of the Book of Joshua refer?
Why did God promise Abraham all of Egypt in Genesis 15 and only Canaan in Genesis 17?
Why did He order an animal sacrifice in Genesis 15 and circumcision in Genesis 17?
Why did He add a syllable to Abram's name?
Why circumcision at the age of eighth days?
Why did Abraham not cut the birds like the other animals in the sacrifice in Genesis 15?
Why does the Second commandment differ between Exodus 20: 5 and Deuteronomy 5: 9, which in turn differs between the Masoretic version and those of the Septuagint, the Nash papyrus and the Dead Sea scrolls?
Why does chapter 34 of the Book of the Exodus rewrite and comment at length on the Second Commandment?

Archaeology, history, and exegesis answer those riddles. Born of a succession of discoveries that revolutionize the reading of the Bible, this book, based on the work of Agut and Moreno-Garcia, Albright, Attias and Benbassa, Davidovits, Desroches Noblecourt, Freud, Robichon, R?mer, M. And R. Sabbah, Varille, and Wald (Nobel Prize in Medicine) notably, makes the history of a utopia: the ephemeral Hebrew civilization created by Abraham and Moses and betrayed by Judaism. Enlightening the Torah with the history of the last five pharaohs of the 18th dynasty and the first four of the Ramessides, and vice versa, it brings decisive arguments to the hypothesis of the Egyptianity of the Hebrews (Sabbah M. and R., Secrets of the Exodus, 2000), making it a certainty. It confirms on the one hand that Abraham's wanderings are a myth invented by the Jews in Babylon to hide their Egyptian origin (cf. R?mer and the Sabbah), and on the other hand that only Akhenaten and Ramses 1st existed and that Abraham and Moses are invented names. The Sabbah start from the fact that the Hebrews, disciples of Akhenaten's monotheist heresy hated by the pharaonic order, left no trace in Egypt because they were Egyptians like the others. They rely upon multiple elements: five archaeological evidences, biblical data and cross-cultural comparisons, the latter reinforced by Le Fabuleux h?ritage de l'?gypte (Desroches Noblecourt, 2004). Adopting the same historiographical approach of intercultural comparisons and recalling, as they did, that the Egyptians invented the alphabet, the famous Egyptologist put an end to pseudoscientific criticism.

We have collected six other archaeological proofs and several Biblical ones. R?mer (Coll?ge de France) welcomed our first finding: the Second Commandment did not only resume Akhenaten's religious revolution: monotheism and banning idols and images; it also forbade sexual mutilation, as hinted at in Genesis 15 and the Book of Deuteronomy. That makes the Sinai Covenant a revolution from the moralistic puritanism imposed upon Abraham and the Hebrew babies. The reason for the circumcisions of Abraham and Moses' son followed that spark. Next came that of the Covenant of Genesis 15. Then, it was the revelation of the apocryphal nature of Exodus 34, created from scratch to refute that Exodus 20: 5 forbids feminine and masculine sexual mutilation. The Septuagint, the Nash papyrus, the Dead Sea scrolls, and the revelation by Desroches Noblecourt that the Ten Words refer to the time of the pyramids put the finishing touch.

In contrast to Judaism mutilating, warlike, and xenophobic like the Egyptian civilization, the Hebraic religion was peaceful, universalist, cosmopolitan, hedonistic, and respectful of the integrity of the human body. This book tells of its crushing between the Egyptian and Judaic civilizations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 107025262X
• ISBN13: 9781070252629
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"