How Jews Distort Judaic History

Zionists Lie to Themselves and Everyone Else!
by Joachim Martillo

Jew's Muse / Erasing Jewish heritage, one historical omission at a time (reproduced below) is consistent with the history of Jewish Zionist mendacity and self-delusion previously discussed in the articles listed in Collection: Chief Zionist Frauds.

Author Uzi Silber goes through the usual litany of Zionist lies and disinformatsia.

• The BBC is biased against Israel [Reality: BBC and Gaza Charity Appeal and Followup: BBC and Gaza Charity Appeal].
• Iranian Prime Minister Ahmedinejad is a Holocaust-denier for doubting contrafactual Zionist Holocaust mythology [Reality: Holoexaleipsis, Holocaust, Holosphage and Holodomor and Summary: Holocaust and Ashkenazi Genocidalism].
• Arafat denied the existence of the Jewish Temples as he should have because there were Judaic Temples but there never was a Jewish Temple [Reality How to Talk about Zionism].
  

Silber's understanding of Judaic history in the classical period provides a perfect example of primordialist Zionist nonsense.

Christianity, Islam and Rabbinic Judaism all develop from currents of 2nd Temple Judaism that arise after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written. The Dead Sea Scrolls are part of the inheritance of all three Abrahamic religions and as cultural product definitely belong to native Palestinian population and not to ethnic Ashkenazi interlopers and posers: Khaleej Times: Israel Steals Palestinian Heritage, History and Erasing Palestinian and Jewish History.

The Greek Codex Sinaiticus, which is missing about 500 or its 1400 parchment pages, probably dates to the reign of Constantine and contains all the New Testament books listed by Alexandria Bishop Athanasius as canonical in 367 CE as well as two additional books. Some of the New Testament books vary from the current commonly accepted versions. The Codex Vaticanus is probably older and is complete.

Scholars still debate when the Hebrew-Aramaic Judaic Canon was defined and closed. Common choices of date commonly lie in the period from the 2nd century BCE through 3rd Century CE, but Vayiqra Rabba indicates (paragraph 28, p. 40) that the canonical status of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) was still open as late as the 4th century, and one could make the case the Saadya Gaon would like to have added the Megillat Antiochos in the 10th century. The actual Masoretic text was not fully completed until the 10th century (probably by Karaites or proto-Karaites and not by Rabbinical Jews). The oldest complete manuscript is the Leningrad Codex, which was completed in 1008, while Rabbinic Judaism itself does not crystallize until the tenth century: From Ancient to Modern Judaism and [Patricia Crone] What do we actually know about Mohammed?.

Thus in its report the BBC was as correct as one might expect in a news broadcast while practically everything that Silber writes in the article below is either a lie, a distortion, or a delusion.

In his conclusion Silber tries to connect historical omission with the demonization of Israel when to opposite is true. The more the true history of Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel becomes known, the more obvious the inherent evil of the Zionist state is.

[Note that Phil Orenstein is a Nadia Abu el-Haj-baiter as well as an associate of Husain Haqqani.]

Last update - 17:03 22/07/2009

Jew's Muse / Erasing Jewish heritage, one historical omission at a time

By Uzi Silber

Diligent media watchdogs such as CAMERA have documented the BBC's chronically hostile coverage of Israel in its conflict with its Arab neighbors. My own ears are exposed to this biased barrage daily on my drive to work.

I grudgingly tune in nevertheless - after all, the BBC does produce other segments of interest to the intellectually curious, ostensiblyunrelated to the Middle East conflict.

And yet even among such benign reports, there are those that - while not intentionally hostile to Jews or Israel - are potentially inimical to Jewish interests not for what they report but for what they don't.

The BBC recently presented just such a report, on the recovery, digitization and online availability of the so-called Codex Sinaiticus, billed at the onset as 'the world's oldest Bible'.

While of immediate interest to Christians, the subject matter would attract any avid student of scripture and so I turned up the volume on the car radio.

The segment was indeed illuminating, and I found myself considering its implications for Jewish tradition. But what was left unsaid was downright deafening.

Here then is the gist of the segment: the Codex is a 16-century old bound bible stowed away for many centuries at St Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai. It contains the entire Christian bible, comprising the Greek translation of the Tanakh, Apocrypha (books left out of the Tanakh), Gospels and other Christian scriptures.

The manuscript fascinates Bible historians for many reasons but what intrigued me most were its layers upon layers and 800 years worth of monastic editing, alterations, corrections, deletions and rewrites on each of its pages, reflecting the evolution of Christian dogma from the late Roman period to the Medieval era.

I soon detected parallels between the centuries-long development of the Codex by the monks and the creation of the Talmud and its commentaries by the rabbinic sages. Perhaps this was no coincidence, considering that the monks of Sinai and Galilean Rabbis lived both contemporaneously and in relative proximity.

Secular biblical scholarship demonstrates that even the authorized version of the Tanakh evolved from a similar scribal editing process, lasting from about 1000 BCE to 150 BCE.

Nevertheless, I found the segment as troubling as it was enlightening, since its crucial omissions would have the effect of misleading a radio audience of millions.

BBC's website describes the Codex as 'the world's oldest bible'. But it isn't. And while the broadcast itself called it 'the oldest surviving bound bible, such a distinction is easily lost on the program's worldwide audience.

For the record, the oldest books of the bible were uncovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls and predate the Codex by six
centuries.

Secondly listeners could easily assume that the bible was originally written in Greek 1600 years ago. Considering that Hebrew isn't mentioned even once throughout the segment, listeners would never know that the bible was first composed in Hebrew beginning 3000 years ago.

While misleading, these omissions by the BBC are unlikely to have been intentional - at least not in this instance. On the other hand, in the hands of Israel's adversaries, omission and the related act of denial are potent weapons used to sever the Jewish People's bonds to its ancient heritage in the eyes of the world.

Historical omission and denial is a particular expertise of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, whose 1982 doctoral dissertation espouses views identical to those of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the holocaust denying President of Iran.

Abbas, widely viewed as 'moderate', earned his doctorate from Moscow Oriental College by arguing, among many things, that that six million were not murdered during the Holocaust and that gas chambers were not used to exterminate them.

Similarly, Yasser Arafat, Abbas' mentor, adamantly denied the existence of the ancient Jewish Temple that is buried beneath the gold-domed Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Omission and denial has given license to the Muslim religious authorities on the Temple Mount (Mt Moriah in the Hebrew bible) totrample the Jewish presence there that preceded the Muslim conquest by 14 centuries.

During recent renovations in and around the famous gold-domed Mosque, bulldozers shoveled through deep layers of previously buried ancient Jewish artifacts, and dumped them outside the city walls in haphazard trash piles. The damage done to the Jewish historical record is irreversible and criminal.

Historical omission is a worrying trend worldwide. The Simon Wiesenthal Center reports on a growing phenomenon of Holocaust omission and denial in schools in Britain and throughout Europe.

Meanwhile, Phil Orenstein of the Democracy Project blog anecdotally relates that, "half of the teachers in (a certain Queens public school) social studies department refuse to teach the Holocaust ... for fear that it might offend Muslim students."

Overt demonization of Israel is detected easily enough; historical omission, intentional or purposeful, and whether by BBC correspondents or outright foes of the Jewish State, is more insidious. Unless confronted, we Jews may find ourselves pushed off Mount Moriah, tumbling down the slippery slope and into Gehena below the biblical Valley of Hell.

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