Timothy Aldred Does The Good Information in This Book a Disservice?

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HAl Taylor

1.0 out of 5 stars Curious

Curious beginning: Is the exact purpose the Book was published. 

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2015

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Timothy Aldred does the good information in this book a disservice by commencing with the statement, "Rome invaded Israel to create a new religion." This sentence shows a most curious view of the history of Christianity. I am not a fan of some of modern Christianity. I love Jesus, Jeshua ben Joseph, and his teachings (Yes he was a real being) but I believe the religious politicians of the day like Iraneus, hijacked his teachings and transformed them into a "religious government" from which a few could control the many through, sometimes absurd, rules and regulations. This questionable beginning of Mr. Aldred's book throws a veil of disbelief over the rest of the work, too bad. He then goes on to lead his readers to believe Samuel N. Kramer and Zecharia Sitchin collaborated in their work. If this did happen it would be news to me. They were in entirely incompatible camps. Samuel was an academic while Zecharia was a reporter for Jewish periodicals most of his life. Both were absolutely brilliant and had strikingly similar backgrounds. Both were Hebrews, born in Russia, learning ancient Hebrew as children. The precursor to ancient Hebrew is Akkadian, the precursor to Akkadian is Sumerian. Thus these two gentlemen had to go back only two steps to understand the thousands of clay tablets written in cuneiform in and around the first civilization of Humanity, Sumeria (Shinar in the bible).