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Chapter 1  
     
1.
 Judaism is understood to be the religion of the Jewish people.
 
2.
 It is regarded as one of the first recorded faiths to worship “one” God and its faith and values are supposed to follow the same traditions of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David and the great prophets and kings of history.
  
3.
 Judaism is also seen as the major foundations of two other great monotheistic religions being Christianity and Islam, both of which respect the authenticity of ancient Jewish scripture.
  
4.
 When Jewish historical and religious texts are quoted, it is almost always on the context of a seeming continuous spiritual succession, with no major differentiation such as “proto-Judaism” and “modern Judaism”.
  
5.
 Even today when someone says they are Jewish, they do not usually qualify this by saying they are followers of Rabbinical Judaism.
  
6.
 Yet virtually every person who claims to be religiously Jewish today, is a follower of Rabbinical Judaism, a completely different form of worship compared to many Jews two thousand years ago.
  
7.
 Contrary to the general history portrayed by (Rabbinical) and even Christian texts today, ancient Judaism was far from being monotheistic, instead representing largely pantheistic and sect/regional variations that only started to unify effectively into one religious structure in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
  
8.
 Today of course, those differences have been carefully ironed out and removed from sight, so that few Jews and even Christians truly understand this historic context.
  
9.
 Similarly, the Jewish Rabbis claim an ancient and successive spiritual heritage of pre-eminence in Jewish society from pre-Jerusalem destruction, even sighting their official position as nasci within the Jewish council, the Sanhedrin of the times, thus relegating High Priests to mere functionaries and honorary positions.
  
10.
 Yet again, this seems to be a rather clever re-writing of history to try and add some extra years to the historic context of the Pharisees, the ancestors of the Rabbis.
  
11.
 Then there is the amazing history of locations such as Ebla, a city of over two hundred and fifty thousand, a city that dominated human history over five thousand years ago as the most important spiritual centre and source of higher thinking who worshipped their patriarchs such as Abraham, Daniel and Israel and their God El.
  
12.
 Then there is the incredible history of not one, but two fully functioning Jewish Temples in Egypt, the first from around the 11th Century BCE to the 5th Century BCE on Elephantine Island and the second from the 2nd Century BCE to the 1st Century CE at Leontopolis.  
13.
 These are massively important historic sites and parts of Jewish history that is completely absent from modern and even ancient Jewish writing over the last two thousand years.  
14.
 Then there is the consistent and universal position within virtually all Judaic texts that the Pharisees are the oldest sect of ancient Israel prior to the temple, with the Essenes and the Sadducees being younger off-shoots.
  
15.
 Yet a huge amount of evidence exists that the Sadducees were the blood descendents of the ancient kings and priests of Israel dating many centuries earlier than the Pharisees.
  
16.
 So too, the Essenes claim an esoteric heritage even earlier, claiming their heritage back to Pharaoh Akhenaten who they claimed was the real Moses and then even earlier to Ugarit and Ebla.
  
17.
 But it is not even prior to the destruction of the Jewish temple where Rabbinical Jews have massive “blank spots” in their own history.
  
18.
 For up until at least the 12th Century, there was a fully functioning Jewish sovereign kingdom called Septmania in South-Eastern Spain and France that had its own royal lines, that is mentioned through numerous books that have been saved from being burn, re-edited or destroyed and was in existence at least longer than three hundred years prior to the destruction of the Great Temple of Jerusalem.
  
19.
 How then could a fully functional Jewish state with its own monarchy in southern Europe fail to be mentioned in any Jewish text? How could this incredible oversight by the spiritual ancestors of modern Rabbis be possible?
  
20.
 Who then are the founders of modern Judaism who have decided what parts of history to tell and what parts to hide and why?
  
21.
 This is what we will review now.
  

 
 
 

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