Content of the Bible

  • The Old Testament is based on testimonies and talks of the creation of the earth, the prehistory of mankind, the election, the history of salvation. The contents are put together out of a variety of texts: Tales, stories, law collections, testimonies, pieces of wisdom, chronicles, liturgical and poetical texts, lamentations, love songs, family sagas, legends…
  • The aim of the one-God-movement was and is, to create a world epic as collection of historical scrolls, memories, sagas, popular tales, anecdotes, Kingly propaganda, prophecies and ancient composition, partly original, partly copied from previous editions.
  • The creation of the world according to old Sumerian beliefs is similar to the stated one in the Bible.
  • The birth of Moses, his childhood and youth are consistent with legends from the time in the Mesopotamian region.
  • The exodus from Egypt with Moses never happened.
  • The Ten Commandments can already be found – in somewhat different form – already in the Egyptian Books of the Dead.
  • Nearly everything is legend and never historiography.
  • Most of the texts are adapted to the political interests of the given times.
  • The savage story, that Abraham sacrificed his son at the will of God, is legend.
  • The mass exodus of the Jews from Lower Egypt, from the Delta region, never happened.
  • Monotheism was not an invention of the Israelites.
  • Jericho never had a wall and did not even exist at the time that Joshua was said to have conquered it.
  • A federal state of Israel and Judaea never existed.
  • Countless conceptions and tales in the Bible originate from other civilizations and religions.
  • Essential parts of the story of Israel played out very differently from the way the Bible portrays.
  • A settlement of Israel through Abraham never happened.
  • Different archaeologists place the time of Abraham in different epochs, that differ by up to 1000 years.
  • The contradictions in the story of Abraham are indications that Abraham hardly could have even existed.
  • Biblical and archaeological information indicates a concoction of cults.
  • There are historical facts that make it impossible that Isaac ever existed.
  • The whole story about Jacob is false.
  • All the portrayed facts and findings are clues, that the legends about Joseph were a complete invention.
  • The incidents of the 12 sons of Jacob in Egypt are to be seriously put in question.
  • The ascertained data from excavations in Egypt are not compatible with Moses data from the invented Pentateuch.
  • A mass exodus from Egypt under Ramses appears to be completely implausible.
  • There are no indications of any mass exodus under a Moses.
  • The exodus of 600.000 people from Egypt is invented.
  • The invented Moses could not have been hindered by Edom.
  • Myths are subsequently condensed into historical fact.
  • Moses’ laws: It is incomprehensible, why God would promise a land that first needs to be conquered with war and religious-racist mass murder.
  • The exodus from Egypt is a conglomeration of legends from different epochs.
  • The book of Joshua is a collection of sagas, heroic tales and local myths.
  • An over 100 year invasion under Joshua could hardly have occurred.
  • The factual life of Israelites is hardly described in the Old Testament.
  • A “golden age” of Israel under David and Salomon is simulated.
  • There are no archaeological findings of the structures of a kingdom of David.
  • Large kingdom or a central administration, as portrayed in the Old Testament with a temple city Jerusalem, did not exist in the times of Judah.
  • The people in Israel-Palestine were up until the end of the 8th century B.C. illiterate.
  • The Genesis (1st book of Moses) is a concoction of various nomadic tales.
  • The archaeological findings, or rather the non-findings clearly indicate that the invasion under the King Josia did not take place.
  • With false stories about the King Omri, Ahab and Isebel the true story of Israelis camouflaged according to plan and Jerusalem placed at the center.