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Ethiopian Bible

Old Testament (Torah): Origin of the Moabites & Ammonites – Yet Another Tale of Biblical Incest! (8.4.2024)

This practice of humility has survived down through the ages in the traditions of Christian monasticism which exist within Roman Catholicism and the various Orthodox lineages (all practicing celibacy and rejecting any form of sexual contact). Christianity as we know it today dates from around 350 CE and the fixing of the received Bible. This process built on the fixing of the Jewish Bible which occurred in 100 CE – both activities rejected many Testaments and Gospels for political and theological reasons. Fortunately, many of these texts were discovered in the immediate post-WWII period in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls (Palestine) finds – representing the Old Testament – and the Nag Hamidi Library (Egypt) – clarifying the New Testament. Not all of these texts had been missing – with some being known from other sources – and surreptitiously passed-on behind the scenes as it were.

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Contextualising ‘On the Jewish Question’ By Karl Marx! (2.7.2023) 

Questioning the mythology of religion is an important and vital aspect of ‘freedom of thought’ and does not constitute an ‘attack’ upon religiosity. Questioning the legitimacy of religious belief is an important component of a liberal society as it prevents religious groupings from ‘justifying’ criminal acts based solely upon the idea that an ‘immunity’ from prosecution is in effect premised upon the mere holding of a ‘religious’ belief! A ‘religious’ and ‘irreligious’ individual, (living within a Bourgeois State), should be held liable for their actions in front of exactly the same Secular Law. To this end, this is a text rich in insight written by a young Karl Marx just out of University and on the brink of marrying Jenny Westphalia. Perhaps there is something of the love and light euphoria of those times – which emanates from the pen of Marx!

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Rainbow: Mitzvot (Commandments) – the Seven Laws of Noah! (12.6.2023)

This idea is a leap of logic that attempts to ‘link’ the ‘eight’ sectioned ‘Rainbow Flag’ of Gilbert Baker with the (Hebrew) religious teachings of the ‘Seven Laws of Noah’. These teachings are also referred to as the ‘Noahide Commandments’ (or the ‘Mitzvot’ of Noah). Although Jewish people follow their own set of ‘Mitzvot’ (Commandments) – non-Jewish people who live alongside Jewish people are expected to willingly comply with Noah’s Seven Laws. In Jewish scripture it is stated that Yahweh “created the world that it might be settled”. (Isaiah 45:18) This implies a level of required civilized conduct – which can only be achieved when non-Jewish people also correctly observe the required ‘mitzvot’.

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