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" Film " ..... ok How about this from REAL life I was travelling around finding people that had trained with Mr . Nishihira ... directly ... 1 on 1 . One of them told me this story (but first a bit of background , check the Wiki article on him, if you have not yet . Now , he had a few fellow students that where US servicemen ) .... and you know what USA did to Okinawa ! ) under Hohan Soken . When Hohan Soken died , who was to be the new 'head' and teacher ? Some decided it was Koesai Nishihira ( he had documents, and inherited sword , that's a big deal in that culture ) and they informed their students that Mr. N was the new head and they went to him for training visits . Most of them IMO opinion didnt follow what he taught properly and devolved back into modern style, pay as you go, belt hierarchy McDojo ( Mr N never did that and good students of his didnt either , they where 'unadvertised' - word of mouth and taught from home ) . Still , people would come to HIS home and train with this 'style' . he was very subtle about his take on things and not wanting to offend anyone . Anyway the point is ..... 1of them , a 'student' ( let's say A ) of a guy who was the head here (let's call him B ) , went back without the others there , to go train wit,h who he had been told was the new head and guy that 'got it all ' .... so here is my comment on those film masters ; - A is very polite on arrival, after some niceties he is invited by Mr N. into his training area and asked to ''Please Show me what you know ." So he did some moves, some kata , some applications ... Mr N . " Oh , very good ... yes B's style is very good , you have done well . " A ; " Mr N. with all due respect to B , I have been training under him for years and yes he is very good and I learnt a lot . But if I want lessons from him , I travel to town , but now I have come half way around the planet to see you and learn from you . " and bowed . Great response ! Mr N. acted embarrassed and said " Ohhhh thank you ! " Looked him up and down , "Okay , we start tomorrow or later ... tell me when 'jet lag' gone . " - and then A started showing me what Mr N taught him .... WOW ! ... and dont take MA films too seriously Another story from there ; the lads are training with Mr. N . Some dude in the group at the end of the session goes "Oi ! " to Mr N and shapes up to fight him . Mr N leaps through the air with a right roundhouse at his knee making the guy step back and block, but its a fake, it was double flying roundhouse an the other came around and hit the side of the guys knee . They had to take him to hospital . I am sure you get 'the moral of the story ' . .... and thank you for being polite to me ' Thrice Daily San '. .

Indeed ! While I am defending the lower part of my body against attack ( with my legs and feet ) my hands will indeed be; 'elsewhere to be super useful' .

This thread will show articles papers and videos that relate to the construction of Judaism as a medium for an historical political takeover and examine elements of the 'Jewish story' (claimed history ) such as ; an examination of Gods, the appropriation of other cultures story and history being massaged into Judaism and the attempt to twist Egyptian history into their* own . This threads focus is historical and not related to 'religious or faith value'. * certain political 'powers that be' and individuals , who will arise as these posts progress . Lets start with two fronts ; A comparison with 'King Solomon' and the Egyptian records at that time and an examination of one of the Jewish Gods .The Biblical authors (compiled 700 AD onwards) were using records of some description when they wrote the stories that eventually wound up in a single book, but they clearly had no great historical record of these events, because we know that they were wrong/copied/altered to create a narrative about the discovery of a single god who created Israel after leaving Hebrews from Egypt. We know that story is not true, because we know the oldest sources of the story are not about this story at all, they were copied from other stories. Let's unpack what we actually know based on archaeology. Egypt was culturally dominant over the Levant during the bronze age, but was fought in the borderlands around modern Israel / Syria by the Hittites, then Assyrians, then Babylonians and then finally the Greeks. a) The Canaanite cultures of the region, centred around city states, worshipped a pantheon of gods including El, Yahweh, Asherah etc, but were also reliant on Egypt for military support from at least the Amenhoteps onwards (1500ish) as evidenced by the Amarna letters. Temples to both Egyptian and local gods can be found in Canaan (modern areas of Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt etc), while Egyptian religious iconography and temple worship continued until about 600 AD. c) The region was repeatedly invaded by Egyptians to restore control whenever bandits or foreigners incited rebellion against Egyptian rule. Monuments to Pharoahs such as Ramesses II which detail these great conquests, and it was also repeatedly invaded by Hittites, Amurites etc, leaving a border around Syria as mentioned above. d) We can shoot down the 'revelation' of Yahweh pretty easily - he was worshipped very clearly long before the period of the mythical exodus, as evidenced even by personal names in Egypt, and at that point was also quite separate to El (who was also found in personal names in the Amarna period). So when a series of stories about the Judean royal family begins to be written somewhere between 700-500 AD, a process interrupted by the Assyrian invasion, and the subsequent Babylonian takeover, and is then compiled into a book which creates a very anti-Egyptian narrative, we have to look at the sources for this, knowing they are then edited to make sense in a larger narrative. 'Exodus' which describes an Egyptian Royal taking an army to Canaan, with many religious preparations on the way, before fighting an army of charioteers is the story of Ramesses II invading Canaan and fighting the Hittites at Kadesh. He builds an Egyptian Altar with Isis and Nephthys on it (called the Ark in the Bible) which undermines any idea of fighting the Egyptian gods and a Uraeus (bronze serpent) to fight snakes - both of which are Egyptian religious icons, and the story of destroying the Pharoah's chariots in a sea is literally the Poem of Pentaur. Proverbs is the 'Instruction of Amenemope' complete with a mistranslation of a reference to the 'thirty' instructions into 'three' rendering the sentence nonsensical. Joseph - an Egyptian name - whose story follows the model of Egyptian fiction of the late Bronze Age, has an 'Egyptian' name given to him which is in fact a Hebrew name, a point the authors who added it clearly fail to understand. So back to Solomon. We see no evidence of his existence. But we do see evidence of a king in exactly the same period, who does all the things Solomon does, but is actually a Pharoah - Siamun. So it is likely on balance that the story of Solomon, is based on the story of Siamun. Continuing with the blindly obvious parallels between Canaanite history as recorded in the Bible and the archaelogical records in Egypt, we can see that in the period 'Solomun' reigned over the kingdom of Judah and Israel, the Pharoah was 'Siamun'. Siamun married the previous Pharoah's daughter, ruled over Canaan (including Israel and Judah) and was marked by his huge construction of temples. Siamun was enormously wealthy and powerful. He may have been from Canaan (his predecessor was from Libya) but his origins are not recorded in any artifacts found to date. There is a lot of historical evidence for him. Solomun married the previous Pharoah's daughter, ruled over Canaan (including Israel and Judah) and was marked by his huge construction of temples. Solomun was enormously wealthy and powerful. He may have been from Canaan (his predecessor was a mysterious shepherd boy king) but his origins are only recorded in a book of mythology. There is no historical evidence for him. Obvious points to add are that neither a) Israel or Judah were big enough to have the wealth ascribed to Solomun the suffix 'amun' is that of an Egyptian god so the name appears Egyptian, Egypt had historically had many 'Yahweh' worshippers in its ranks and dominated Canaan culturally. .

Down under the Sphinx ? Ancient Egyptian public toilets .

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One important aspects of the Baha'i central beliefs ; " The independant investigation of truth ."

No its not likely or unlikely . I already showed the recent scholastic evidence that supports my view (.. and I have had it as my view for years as that is where researcher led to . ) but you will not have read it , nor a lot of the other stuff, because yo be too busy trying to personally dis me now THAT is a ' continual ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

... you see, because we still have not examined all the archaeological material in stores - mostly various languages written in cuneiform we have had to rely on a historical sources , like the Jewish Bible / Torah . It had permeated HISTORY ( the written records of past events ... otherwise its oral history or 'pre-history' or future fiction ) . What needs to be rewritten is history ... not religion . You could look up a history subject on wiki and its FULL off Solomon's temple , Kingdom of untied Israel , etc etc a bland of historical accounts as seen by those people AND myths and stories and yes, some propaganda and past politically motivated stuff ( see past posts for referenced info on that one , it was part of 'scribal method' ) , they are highlighted which means you can click on them and get a link ... then that link might explain its not historical or even doubted . But it is , at a glance, included in history , its history that needs to be re-written .

No, of course not . I am not attacking your religion or faith . I am simply not coming from that angle ... this is an historic view . if I thought like that I would not be visiting my Jewish friend on Sabbath and pressing the button on his coffee machine for him . I dont mind that ,,, its his BELIEF . However if he said he wanted me to press it for him becase he claimed he had sore finger ... I would check first , as he might be just lazy . let me ask YOU a question now ... no need to answer me but I want you to think about it . Does your faith belief and experience with Jesus ( not Christianity but Jesus ) depend on the OT being exactly accurate ?

Rubbish . Stop politicizing this in an attempt to get it shut down ( censored ) . Also its pure conjecture ... I have some very positive value judgements on some of my Jewish friends ! One of them got me a favorite job of mine , he was in my martial arts club , we trained together a LOT AND he helped me to see some faults in my own culture , that he observed after living in Jewish culture (In kibbutz specifically , in relation to living on a local Aussie 'commune ' ). His comments and observations where enlightening and spot on ! Another Jewish friend ... I told him about you, he wants to know why if you are such a staunch believing Jew , you would even want to argue in the first place . I even go to a mate's place sometimes on sabbath ... I dont mind pressing the button on his automatic coffee machine for him ... even though I know full well he will do it himself on sabbath if I am not there ! So you can stick your attempts at trying to throw this type of mud at me . ... more personal attacks ! again trying to divert away from the evidence you dont like . You are still on with the attempted character assassination since you cant stem the tide of new info coming out ... including from Jewish sources ! You refuse to address anything written by Finkelston ! or the other Jewish scholars I cite ! Thats why you ARE discredited .

Anyone that is interested in seeing how they might have been religiously hoodwinked . I would not be surprised that Jew, Christian and Moslem find it challenging . Now, anything else from my childhood you would like to bring up and throw in to try and cast some 'psychological self' - doubt about ? You guys tactics and games are interesting to observe here . However I do acknowledge that some members here are not here to seek enlightenment , illumination, etc .. as 'they' declared that here openly . Whatevers . It would be good if they didnt try to subvert that ... on all fronts that are not their own belief system < coff coff .... Daniel .... coff >

I often get a map up on another window when I need a continuing reference . (In the old days , I would have them plastered on the walls next to my reference library . When I started working on our supreme court case . my cabin had charts on the walls , law books open at certain sections , sheets of paper everywhere . A friend came around and "MY GOD ! " ... and went and bought me my first ever computer . . ) ... and please dont try to follow me using a mobile phone One thing that is changing things lately is we have a VAST store of cuneiform clay tablets that no one has interpreted yet . But that is beginning to change . In some cases it hasn't even been looked at .... yet . But as more and more information comes to light from sources OTHER than the Hebrew Bible .... well ... more and more info comes to light .

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-04-04/ty-article-magazine/.premium/a-strange-drawing-could-undermine-our-entire-idea-of-judaism/0000017f-db0d-d4e1-a57f-fbcd4a8a0000

New Study of 'Passover Letter' May Change What We Know About the Birth of Judaism " The 2,400-year-old papyrus from Elephantine, touted as the earliest evidence for Pesach, may in fact reference Zoroastrian-influenced rituals, Israeli scholar concludes The so-called 'Passover Letter' is a tattered papyrus written in Aramaic during the Persian period. It is thought by scholars to contain the first extrabiblical reference to the rituals of Pesach, thus proving that this festival was already well established more than 2,400 years ago. " (and was offered up here previously as 'evidence' of early Jewish religion , as per Jewish Bible , back there and then ) " Not so, says a new study by an Israeli researcher, which calls into question a century of scholarship on the seminal document and claims the text has little or nothing to do with Passover as we know it. Instead, the letter was most likely discussing Zoroastrian-inspired rituals that were commonly observed by Jews in the Persian Empire, says Dr. Gad Barnea, a lecturer in Jewish history and biblical studies at Haifa University. If correct, Barnea's hypothesis would have broad implications not just for the nebulous history of this central Jewish holiday but also for what we understand about the origins of Judaism as we know it." (Note the bolded part ! - my emphasis , and also more proof of my theory . ) https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-11-04/ty-article/new-study-of-passover-letter-may-change-what-we-know-about-the-birth-of-judaism/00000192-dc36-ddcf-a7f7-dc76c3eb0000

The documentation is SO overwhelming , it cant all be summarised and posted here . Thats why 'glossary' is often shown regarding research sources, like : Exile and Return: the Babylonian Context. Edited by Jonathan Stòkl ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › heyj 8 Feb 2017 · The Jews in Babylon had inevitably constructed an imaginary and ideal 'Judah' to stave off assimilation to the host culture, which would have ... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/heyj.12391 A sociological analysis of Israelites in Babylonian exile https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/EJC85644 The Invention of the Jewish People (Hebrew: מתי ואיך הומצא העם היהודי?, romanized: Matai ve’ech humtza ha’am hayehudi?, literally When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?) is a study of Jewish historiography by Shlomo Sand, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. It has generated a heated controversy.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The book was on the best-seller list in Israel for nineteen weeks.[12] ( not particularly my view on things as he delves into areas I dont . However it is acclaimed and he his credentials include Professor of History at Tel Aviv University ) I will add more as they come to my attention ....

Babylonian Exile and Beyond How did the Babylonian exile of the Jews grow "larger than life" and take on symbolic value beyond the actual historical circumstances? The reason why the Judahite exile in Babylon became proverbial is because, during and after the exile, the exiled Judahites developed an unprecedented creative energy that resulted in the final editing of the Pentateuch, of the deuteronomistic work of history (the Books of Samuel and Kings), of many of the prophetic books and also in the composition of new literature (such as the Chronistic works of history, i.e., Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles) that reflects the concerns of the returnees from Babylone often more directly than the older literature. In other words, whether in form of careful reverential editing or in form of the composition of new works, the priests and scribes of the exilic community decisively shaped what we simply consider the biblical world view. Since the exilic and postexilic redactors and authors often hide their own contribution to the sacred literature of Israel in subtle additions to older works rather than openly stating their authorship, since they furthermore prefer anonymity or attribution of their works to the great figures of the golden age before the destruction of Judah, Jerusalem, and the Solomonic temple, since they therefore create the literary fiction that the result of their deliberation was already available to the personages representing the golden age, we must deconstruct their fiction to get a sense of their real achievements. To this day, fundamentalist and naïve readers habituated to taking biblical stories as the literal truth have trouble imagining that the story framing the Mosaic legislation (from the creation of the world to the appearance of the LORD at Sinai, and from forty years of migration in the desert to the conquest under Joshua) may reflect the concerns of exilic or postexilic authors/editors rather than actual events truthfully (and passively) recorded. If the above is even vaguely accurate, it follows that the role of Jerusalem in biblical literature is decisively shaped by the experience of loss and destruction reflected in exilic and early post-exilic literature (and in the editorial processes older texts and traditions underwent at this time). For the evident reason of the political dimension of loss and of all hopes for reconstruction, Jerusalem, in fact, is henceforth one of the three central religio-political symbols of Jewish (as subsequently of Christian and Islamic) eschatology, i.e., of any monotheistic teaching about the ultimate things to come, about the end of history, the final condition of the world, and the like. Post-exilic After the exile, Judah was politically rebuilt as a Persian satrapy, a semi-autonomous administrative province, ruled by a priestly elite that remigrated from Babylonia and whose views and attitudes were shaped by the religious blue-prints for reconstruction drafted in the exile. They were at odds with the local population, rigorously enforced separation from the mixed multitude of inhabitants of Judah, and ruled on the basis of the Torah. This code of law was promulgated by Ezra in the early 4th century BCE and it served as the legal ideal of a theocratic state (ruled by priests rather than kings). According to the later rabbis, the institution of the Torah as the basic law (in addition to which there must have been oral law traditions of various kinds) brought the earlier institution of prophecy to an end. Religious practices now included the keeping of the Sabbath as a strictly enforced day of rest on every seventh day (roughly conforming to quarters of the lunar month but without real parallel in any other ancient culture). Persian influence is noticeable in Jewish apocalyptic literature (symbolism of good vs. evil, angelology, figure of Satan as "fallen angel" and personified evil). The administrative language of Judah is now Aramaic, the language of the Persian empire, rather than Hebrew. Important new institution are the Levites as auxilliary priests (cf. the emphasis in the Books of Chronicles on this institution with the virtual absence thereof in Samuel and Kings!). The emerging Jewish religion is not just the cult of a state (in fact, it is no longer a state cult at all) but a religion with a sacred center in Jerusalem practiced and adhered to by an extended diasporah. This means, for example, that Jerusalem becomes the focus of elaborate pilgrimages and it is the recipient of lavish gifts and of taxes due to the sanctuary and its officials. In comparison to its predecessors (Josiah’s monolatrism, the commandment in the Pentateuch to worship YWHW alone), this early Judaism is a monotheistic religion (see Isaiah 45!). It should be noted that when the returnees (Armstrong: the "Golah") established this religion in Jerusalem, a Egyptian diaspora (dating back presumably to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 586) practiced Yahwism at a temple of their own located on the island of Elephantine (upper Nile). In other words, "Judaism" was not a monolithic practice and the Babylonian diaspora was not the only form in which Judah- and Israel-related traditions were continued after the destruction of the states of Israel and Judah. Of the temple in Elephantine we know futher that it was destroyed in 410 and rebuilt in 402. It was the temple of a Jewish military colony near the southern border of Egypt (the latter having lost independence to the Persians) and it continued to function in Second Temple times. The community of Elephantine was on friendly terms with the priestly establishment in Jerusalem despite the fact that it initially practiced syncretistic forms of worship (very much like the practices in Jerusalem before the destruction of 586) that were only gradually abandoned in consultation with the Second Temple priesthood in Jerusalem. What little we know about the history of early Second Temple Judaism from other sources is augmented from fragments of letters written on papyrus found by modern archeologists at Elephantine (excavated when the Assuan dam was built in the 1960s). .... and a LOT more in Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition. A History of Second Temple Rabbinic Judaism (Hoboken: Ktav, 1991), Martin S. Jaffee, Early Judaism (Upper Saddle River/NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997).

We used to do it on one leg with our feet ; 'sticky foot' we would call it . Works similar to push hands except when you loose it you get a kick in the groin . It was practised for 'leg blocks' theory was ' if the lower part of your body is attacked, defend it with the lower part of your body . Which meant a variety of ways ; deflects, blocks, roll overs , direct kicking into the attacking leg / nerves , heel stomps , 'absorption' , foot slaps ..... Ohhh ... to be young again !

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PT 2 of above of the unifi p6 maintains that the Hebrew Bible was the result of the accumulation over time of many strata of literary work and the conflation of a variety of sources(J, E, P and D) and genres (laws,prophecies, poems,sagas, etc). It was a product of a continuous process of composition that stretched over hundreds of years. Following the archaeological data,they rule out the existence of the famous and powerful unified kingdom of David and Solomon. p. 7 - 11 the states of Palestine and the Neo-Assyria it seems that ancient Israelites decided to write their own History in the 9th century BCE when they had already elaborated three important institutions: a sole royal dynasty, a land of their own and a unique temple . Following that, it seems natural to have elaborated a national narrative as a clear intellectual manifestation of social and political evolution, which came to be known as the “Solomonic Enlightenment” p8 theories on how and why the Hebrew bible was written and "the parts and divisions of the Hebrew bible p11. - 20 Modern views on redaction of Hebrew bible (redaction :\ noun. 1 a : an act or instance of preparing something for publication. b : an act or instance of obscuring or removing something from a document prior to publication or release. 2 : a work that has been redacted : edition, version ) p 20 The Problem concerning “biblical Israel”, “historical Israel” and “Ancient Israel” However, some of these ancestors had not once lived in Judah and they decided to write a history which explained their own post exilic society and also the privileges of these immigrants within the new society that they would create in Judah. In this matter, these people inherited a certain mount of literary material, oral traditions and other element from earlier times that have survived in pre -exilic Palestine (specifically, stories about kings, warrior, holy men, cultic songs and prophecies) and wrote their own ideological history of its society. In this way, the Israel described in the Hebrew Bible was the final product, the biblical Israel. p21 The historical view of Israel and the value of the historical approach The biblical Israel, as we said before, is an ideological product elaborated between 6th and 4th centuries BCE, which means, many centuries after the events that it described. In another aspect, many of the events described in the biblical narrative may have never been absolutely corroborated by extra-biblical sources or archaeological finds. The historical Israel, on the other hand, represents a historic reality reconstructed by the archaeological data in a very difference view with respect of the biblical one. Thus, the information rescued by archaeological digs gives important information about the evolution of this Israelite/Judahite society, especially in aspects which the Hebrew Bible never has given any description. p22 how other peoples saw and recoded Israel and how Israel did itself see itself (from archaeology sources NOT the bible and p23 searching the origin of the first Israelite narrative inside its own historical evolution. within this p23 The Problem concerning “biblical Israel”, “historical Israel” and “Ancient Israel” .Including Finklesteins work , Jewish scholar that I have previously cited (as he is THE expert ) p24 Notwithstanding, their histories were manipulated by the creativity and the ideological approaches of authors of other centuries, who changed some elements for later ideological reasons. (which is something I speculated on earlier ) ... and where these people may have come from p25 their cananite origin then follows a lot of good info about who these abcient people where eg p26 the spread of the different states in the area p27 "Thus, the historical reconstruction of this period still depends to a large degree on the biblical testimony, specifically with respect to the birth of Israel as state. But it has not been possibleto discover any powerful kingdom such as the Unified Kingdom of David and Solomon described in the Hebrew Bible in any extra biblical texts of the Ancient Near East." p28 Solomons kingdom disputed "we want to insist, there are no extra biblical evidences in the Ancient Near East on this important kingdom. Moreover, the extant material remained from this Solomonic period was the subject of many objections to some archaeologists as Finkelstein. examples follow p30 With respect to this historical entity, some scholars and ancient sources call it “Samaria” “Israel”, “northern kingdom of Israel” or simply “the House of Omri”. The last name is explained by the fact that at the beginnings of the 9thcentury BCE, a royal family ruled this region and established as capital the city of Samaria. Thus, the Neo-Assyrian sources, for example, called this kingdom as it was situated precisely in the region of the Central Hills of Palestine and became into a political power around the 9th century BCE. This means that the northern kingdom became a territory governed by bureaucratic machinery, social stratification, large building activity, and developed settlement system and prospering economic project thanks to trade with neighbouring regions, especially Phoenicia.Indeed, from an archaeological point of view, during the 9th century BCE it is possible to identify this entity as a small Phoenician satellite state follows a bit more information about where it was . p32 and 33 talk about a developed kingdom (north Israel) p33 introduces the new assyrian empire - In their view they see the area as a 'Syrian / Palestinian state ' These Syro-Palestine powers decided to create a coalition against this new power coming from Mesopotamia, facing in the battle of Qarqar in 853 BCE, where the Assyrian army defeated a coalition army of the Syro-Palestine region led by the Aramaean King Hadadezer of Damascus, son of the King Hazael." p34 how they then became vassels of the assyrian state . p35 speaks of a new strong era for them UNDER this vasselship and that a new class in society arose "Suddenly, a prosperous stratum of landowner, officials, military and merchants had set themselves above the traditional small farmer then it goes on to the changing dynamics in Assyria then the further developments attributed to Assyria in Israel and why it was not a local development p40 goes on to look at why some Kings under vassel ship in Israel did great things for the people there . but are considered bad in the bible p41 talks of Assyrian decline a decline in Israel but not so much in Judah (as they where not combined into an empire or kingdom as stated in the Bible .) - the northern kingdom is destroyed p42 introduces the new vision "Josiah as one who pursued what was a new vision of the old Israelite religion. A purer form of Yawhism in line with the Law of Moses such as the one contained in the book of Deuteronomy is the quest for the imposition–or “restoration”of the Davidic dynasty over all Israel; the unification of the land belonging to Israel and Judah under one king ruling from Jerusalem; and the destruction of the cult centres in the north and the centralization of the Israelite cult in Jerusalem. then follows archaeological evidnce with a footnote : "The Hebrew Bible itself confirms that even during the period of Solomon, worshiping of other gods as Chemosh of Moab and Ashtoreth of Sidon was common inside the kingdom (1 Kings 11. 5: 2 Kings 23. 13). Also Jeremiah says that the number of deities worshiped at Jerusalem equalled the number of bazaars (Jer. 11. 13). Finally, in Ezekiel 8 describes all the abominations that its author sees inside of the temple of Jerusalem, including the worship of a Mesopotamian god Tammuz. p43 religious propaganda is examined p44 the first version of the Hebrew bible is wrtten and follows the The Hebrew Bible itself confirms that even during the period of Solomon,worshipping of other gods as Chemosh of Moab and Ashtoreth of Sidon was common inside the kingdom (1 Kings 11. 5: 2 Kings 23. - The number of deities worshiped at Jerusalem equalled the number of bazaars (Jer. 11. 13). Finally, in Ezekiel 8 describes all the abominations that its author sees a note from p45 on the then scribal tradition. .... Thus, as pointed out by Davis himself, the scribal tradition involved a range of activities such as archiving (possession and control of the present), historiography (possession and control of the past), didactic writing (maintenance of social values among the elite), and predictive writing (possession and control of the future ) . For this reason, the traditional ethos that we can find in side this class created including the Israelite scribe class works about instruction, speculation on the meaning of life, social ethics and cosmology (Davis 1998: 75). then p49 goes on to sources other than 'Jewish' ;like the Library of Asherbinipal and other sources that "Then, could be the first Israelite/Judahite literatures have been developed at the same time under this Neo-Assyrian influence? Indeed, some of the best known stories of the Hebrew Bible belonging to one of the oldest book–Genesis- seems to demonstrate it: and concludes the study on p53. then follows comparisons regarding the different myths and their 'outside' sources ( see index above ) . p78 is the conclusion p79 of the unified kingdom of David and Solomon–the Golden Age of Israel-following old Mesopotamian traditions, or they were simply imitating the Mesopotamian myths that they came into contact with when the Judahites were in exile in Babylon during the 6thcentury BCE. .... and further info related to this p79 ''It does not matter that the same stories were later modified, transformed or elaborated by other scribes whose work is known nowadays as the result of the sources JE, D and P. Indeed, a modern reading of many of the books of the Hebrew Bible demonstrate that they ignore, for no apparent reason, the relevance and power of the northern kingdom of Israel in the Neo-Assyrian time. The unique descriptions are in 1 and 2 Kings, where the Israelite rulers are villains who introduced foreign gods, murdered holy priests and prophets and violated Israel’s sacred traditions with arrogant impunity until they were destroyed by the Assyrians.' p80 It was situated precisely in the region of the Central Hills of Palestine and became into a political power around the 9thcentury BCE. This means that the northern kingdom became a territory governed by bureaucratic machinery, social stratification, large building activity, and developed settlement system and prospering economic project thanks to trade with neighbouring regions, especially Phoenicia.Indeed, from an archaeological point of view, during the 9 th century BCE it is possible to identify this entity as a small Phoenician satellite state (my emphasis )