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The Bible and Dates

The Bible and Dates

The Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, is a collection of Jewish texts that was written over centuries. The exact dates of the writing of the Hebrew Bible are not known, but scholars believe that the texts were written between the 12th and 2nd centuries The best documented date is circa 600 BCE. Before that time the books were oral stories. The Bible was written in three different ancient languagesHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

The gospels were written in the following timeline:

  • The Gospel of Mark: c. AD 66-70
  • The Gospel of Matthew: c. AD 85-90
  • The Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles: c. AD 85-90
  • The Gospel of John: c. AD 90-110

All four gospels were written in Greek.

. The Bible does not provide a specific age for the Earth. However, some religious scholars interpret the Bible to suggest that the Earth is approximately 6,000 years old . It is important to note that this interpretation is not universally accepted.

Using the Bible, well-documented historical events, and some math, we find that the Flood began in 2348 BC.

What is interesting to me is the fact that the earliest written Sumerian Uniform Tablets were written circa 3000 BC and they documented a similar flood that occurred in antiquity (from their point of view). In addition, there are other events documented that mirror events described in the “old” Testament. Most of what has been translated from the tablets is considered by current-day authorities to be a myth, I wonder if in those times they were considered to be just a valid belief system not unlike what we have today.

Operation Paperclip Revisited   Sputnik 1957, NASA 1958

Operation Paperclip Revisited   Sputnik 1957, NASA 1958

From Wikipedia

“Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army‘s Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these Germans were former members and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party.

As a young man, von Braun worked in Nazi Germany’s rocket development program. He helped design and co-developed the V-2 rocket at Peenemünde during World War II. The V-2 became the first artificial object to travel into space on 20 June 1944. Following the war, he was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program and developed the rockets that launched the United States’ first space satellite Explorer 1 in 1958. He worked with Walt Disney on a series of films that popularized human space travel in the U.S. and beyond from 1955 to 1957.

But the engineer who made the first human spaceflight possible was nowhere to be seen. Only when he died in 1966 was the name of the Chief Designer, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, revealed to the world. This genius at the heart of the Russian space program was one of the Soviet Union’s most closely guarded secrets.

In 1960, his group was assimilated into NASA, where he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. In 1967, von Braun was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, and in 1975, he received the National Medal of Science.”

So we had a German genius and 1,600 of the best German scientists and engineers and we gave them a pass on their participation in the Nazi Party. The Russians got the next best group so how did they get so far ahead of us in the space race? Does anyone know? Anyone?

Lighting Up Saqqara:

Lighting Up Saqqara: An Electrifying Theory for the Serapeum Sarcophagi

The Serapeum of Saqqara has been a continuous source of speculation and mystery since its re-discovery in 1850. Even now, no theory has been able to explain exactly how or why the 24 giant sarcophagi were moved to the site and precisely installed in their notches. The mainstream theory suggests the site was used for the burial of Apis bulls, though many elements do not add up with this belief.

For example, the size of the boxes exceeds the size of the bulls; was it done to provide extra comfort for them? Why not do the same for the pharaohs, who were buried in tiny coffins barely fitting their bodies? Why did they make the Serapeum sarcophagi out of granite and not with limestone, a material much easier to work with? And if Serapeum was the burial site for the Apis bulls, where are the bull mummies?

A little Photoshop to compare the size of a bull (which is about 2.3 meters long) and a Serapeum sarcophagus based on measurement by Linant-Bey. This is a typical bull mummy from Dynastic times.

Several people reject the theory of the Serapeum having been used for ceremonial burials (at least not in the grand gallery of the site where the large coffins are located), but if not that, then what was it used for?  The hall that runs between the sarcophagi is more than the length of 2 ½ football fields! That is the question posed by some Egyptologists…and it is little wonder that they hear a “sound of crickets chirping” in return – in other words, they’ve found no other plausible alternative theory. By default, we fall back to the Apis theory with all its flaws.

What is unexplained to me regardless of the purpose is how they were transported underground down a narrow hall and put in place. Linant de Bellefonds calculated one of the large sarcophagi of the Greater Vaults to have a total mass of 62 tons (124,000 lbs) at most: 37.6 tons (75,000 lbs) for the body and 24.4 tons (49,000 lbs) for the lid. To get a good idea of how amazing these sarcophagi are check out the segments in season 13 episode 7 of Ancient Aliens.