The Africans who wrote the Bible

[Tuatha de Danaan]

THE AFRICANS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE
Ancient secrets Africa and Christianity never told.
By
NANA BANCHIE DARKWAH.

I have just finished reading this book and checked for it on the forum. I cannot see it mentioned so thought I would give some information about it. The information is wonderful but a bit of a slow read basically because the author had a refrain which he uses continually throughout the book. He uses this to emphasise his point and is a bit of a bugbear.

The book starts with,
If the Jewish people originated from Mesopotamia, as the bible claims, how did TERA, the father of ABRAHAM, the name of ABRAHAM himself, the name of his son ISAAC, and the names of his grandsons ESAU and JACOB all come to be derived from African words and names. From which African tribes in Mesopotamia did they originate for Jewish people to be carrying African tribal names. How did the earliest Jewish name for God, Adonai ,that became Adonis in Greek, come to be derived from an African tribal word?
How did millions of modern Jewish people come to have and still carry African tribal names. How did the authors of the Old Testament documents, JOSHUA, NEHEMIAH, ISIAH, JEREMIAH, EZEKIEL, DANIEL, HOSEA, AMOS, OBADIAH, JONAH, NAHUM, HABAKKUK, ZEPHENIAH, HAGGAI, ZACHARIAH, MALACHI, come to have African tribal names?

He then goes on to explain what he has found through linguistics as well as knowledge of Africa about all of the above and more

He says the development of Christianity in Europe was based on serious falsehoods and false assumptions.
He quoted the author Gerald Massey in Vol1.The Natural Genesis; A Book of the Beginnings, as calling it
"legendary lying lore". The people who became the Jews and Hebrews had and have a racial ethnic and tribal
identity with tribes now living in Africa.

The Jews were from black tribes.
The Jews were and are African.
The Jews were not and are not Semitic.

He goes into great detail of cover ups in early Christianity e.g.( The Black Madonna and child)including finds from Ancient Egypt which the public never hear about. He also quotes some unusual sources. With his knowledge of African languages and tribes he tells a very convincing story. I shall have to read it again to let the information soak in some more.

Imagine being able to say -I know who wrote the bible!!!!!!! ; ;

 

[Laura]

Bogus "history" based on the ignorant assumption that the OT itself is any way historical.

If the Jewish people originated from Mesopotamia, as the bible claims, how did TERA, the father of ABRAHAM, the name of ABRAHAM himself, the name of his son ISAAC, and the names of his grandsons ESAU and JACOB all come to be derived from African words and names.

The "Jewish people" didn't originate in Mesopotamia, they were partly indigenous to the Levant, and partly incomers from the time of the collapse of the Bronze age. Large archeology surveys indicate no significant change of inhabitants or at any point that would suggest a "conquest" as depicted in the OT.

From which African tribes in Mesopotamia did they originate for Jewish people to be carrying African tribal names. How did the earliest Jewish name for God, Adonai ,that became Adonis in Greek, come to be derived from an African tribal word?

Adonai is not the earliest "Jewish" word for God. If there is any relationship to any African words, the flow probably goes the other way.

How did millions of modern Jewish people come to have and still carry African tribal names. How did the authors of the Old Testament documents, JOSHUA, NEHEMIAH, ISIAH, JEREMIAH, EZEKIEL, DANIEL, HOSEA, AMOS, OBADIAH, JONAH, NAHUM, HABAKKUK, ZEPHENIAH, HAGGAI, ZACHARIAH, MALACHI, come to have African tribal names?

Who says they are African and what is the evidence?

He then goes on to explain what he has found through linguistics as well as knowledge of Africa about all of the above and more

And what are his credentials and background?

He says the development of Christianity in Europe was based on serious falsehoods and false assumptions.

No doubt about that, the only question is which falsehoods etc.

He quoted the author Gerald Massey in Vol1.The Natural Genesis; A Book of the Beginnings, as calling it
"legendary lying lore". The people who became the Jews and Hebrews had and have a racial ethnic and tribal
identity with tribes now living in Africa.

Massey was another who believed the OT was actually history (it isn't) and more or less made a fool of himself with his theories that are entirely discredited. The proposed etymologies you have cited are truly "fringe nonsense."

<snip> With his knowledge of African languages and tribes he tells a very convincing story. I shall have to read it again to let the information soak in some more.

Imagine being able to say -I know who wrote the bible!!!!!!! ; ;

Actually, there are a few legit scholars who pretty much DO know "Who Wrote the Bible": Philip R. Davies, Russell Gmirkin, Thomas L. Thompson, Phillippe Wajdenbaum, Jan-Wim Wesselius, John Van Seters, Niels Peter Lemche, and several others. Check them out on Amazon and read some real scholarship that approaches truth for a change.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

I can't really add much to Laura's reply without some specific examples of evidence presented and how the case is argued. I've come across such claims before, and the thing that strikes me about them is that they seem to be just identity politics masquerading as research: trying to claim the "legacy" of something old as belonging to some group.

One of the things that makes a scholar like Russell Gmirkin great is that his research takes into account all the previous research (there is a ton of it), points out where it has gone wrong (and WHY it went wrong), what it can't explain (which new ideas can explain), but also acknowledging what it gets right. And there's a LOT to explain. For example, in his analysis of biblical laws he shows that the old idea (that they were solely modelled on the Mesopotamian model) is wrong. The bible's laws were modelled on Greek law, particularly Plato, but historical and geographical realities at the time explain the presence of some typically Mesopotamian laws that can't be explained by the influence of Greek literature.

The thing about most fringe theories is that they can make a case for explaining a small bit of the data, but not all of it, or even the majority of it. Reality is a lot more complex than such theories imply. And even if they make a case for explaining it, there are usually better explanations for the evidence. Maybe the author has an agenda, maybe they're just not aware of the better explanations. Either way, they're usually wrong.

Something may seem plausible to a person who isn't aware of all the things that need to be explained (evidence from literature, archeology, genetics, linguistics, etc.), but to someone familiar with it all, it will strike them as simplistic and just wrong because there's so much that the theory doesn't or can't explain.

 

[Tuatha de Danaan]

Approaching Infinity and Laura,

Thank you both for your wonderful replies and advice.

Just one point of interest. The author never said the OT was history. He claimed it was stolen from much older documents and garbled together and using the Kings List to try to make it historical.

I take on board everything you both have said and will get down to reading recommended books and get
a feel for the Ancient Lands.

Thank you again.

 

[Laura]

Approaching Infinity and Laura,

Thank you both for your wonderful replies and advice.

Just one point of interest. The author never said the OT was history. He claimed it was stolen from much older documents and garbled together and using the Kings List to try to make it historical.

I take on board everything you both have said and will get down to reading recommended books and get
a feel for the Ancient Lands.

Thank you again.

Yes, a lot of OT was stolen from older/other documents, just not African ones. Most of it has been well traced by scholars but, as usual, there is about a 50 year delay between scholarly discoveries and when the public finds out.

Also, the "king list" for the Southern kingdom of Judah is mostly bogus, David and Solomon never existed nor was there ever a "united kingdom" before the Maccabees.

I've read quite a few books such as you describe - alternative history it's generally called - and I now keep them in the fiction section of my library.

 

[Glenn]

Approaching Infinity and Laura,

Thank you both for your wonderful replies and advice.

Just one point of interest. The author never said the OT was history. He claimed it was stolen from much older documents and garbled together and using the Kings List to try to make it historical.

I take on board everything you both have said and will get down to reading recommended books and get
a feel for the Ancient Lands.

Thank you again.

Hi. You might want to read the transcript of the interview with Russell Gmirkin on SOTT radio.

I will attach a PDF of the transcript here to check out.

 

[Tuatha de Danaan]

HELLO H2O

Hi,
Many thanks for your pdf of Russell Gmirkin. I have read it through and learned a lot in such a short space of time. I will look up Amazon and see if I can afford any of his books.

Thank you again for replying.

 

[Glenn]

HELLO H2O

Hi,
Many thanks for your pdf of Russell Gmirkin. I have read it through and learned a lot in such a short space of time. I will look up Amazon and see if I can afford any of his books.

Thank you again for replying.

You're welcome Tuatha de Danaan.

I thought it would be a good starting point. He gives synopsis of his ideas and his research, so you get a good basis on the issues before reading all the books. I particularly liked that interview. Found it to be very informative on topics that are, or can be, kind of tough sledding. At least for me anyway.

Glad you enjoyed it.