Here is a compilation of several sources discussing the myths of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Even a short history shows that in fact it was known since 1550s that the whole Abrahamaic story was copied from . . . India. Even Voltaire knew that.*
It should be of no surprise that Abraham never existed, Abraham is a blatant ripoff of an earlier religion out of India, Brahma marries his sister Saraswati, that myth is written as Abraham marrying his sister Sara. Sara(h)s maidservant Hagar is the Ghaggar River in India. King David is a metaphor for the Dravidian speaking peoples of South India. Isaac is also a ripoff, Ishaak, the great friend of Shiva. Yet modern people believe those OT stories literally. They are not, they are rewritten mythologies, fake the first time and double fake in the second rehashing. This implies the entire OT is fake, not literal, not historical. Thus there are no descendents of Abraham because he did not exist. Plus, no god chose no tribe, that is just tribal propaganda meant to establish dominance of that tribe over the goy.
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Brahma is father of All (RV7.97b), while Abraham is father of many nations (Gen 17:5)
Brahma’s wife is his sister Sarasvati (SV7.96.2), and she was a great beauty (AV19.17; KenU3), while Abraham’s wife, Sarah, is also his sister (Gen 20:12) and is beautiful (Gen 12:14).
Saraswati is known for being a goddess of water, the name means something like retains water. The River Saraswati (PraU1.6) has a tributary named Ghaggar, reflective of the name of Sarah’s maidservant, Hagar. Sarah from Hebrew (שרר sharar) means ruler and / or retains water.
Brahma and Sarasvati lived together for 100 years, then had their first son, while Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 when they had Isaac (Gen 21.5).
Brahma’s son (or grandson), Daksha, is killed as the offering sacrifice before all the gods, while Abraham almost offers his son Isaac. At the pleading of his father, Brihaspati (born from Brahma’s body, RV3.23.1) Daksha** is resurrected with the head of a ram, while Abraham finds a ram caught in a bush to sacrifice in place of his son Isaac (Gen 22:1-13). Brahma’s hidden offering (AV19.42.1-2), relates to Abraham’s offering of a ram caught in a bush.
There are many more overlaps. But it’s not just textual similarities. Aristotle*** says “Jews are derived from the Indian philosophers; they are named by the Indians Calami, and by the Syrians Judaei, and took their name from the country they inhabit, which is called Judea.” (Book I:22.) Further, Megasthenes, an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria to India, in 288BC wrote in his book Indika that the Jews were an Indian tribe or sect called Kalani.
It is quite possible and often speculated that some Jewish ancestors were of the priestly class of Brahmans that headed west, bringing with them writing abilities.
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Excavations have found no trace of a settled population around Judea and Jerusalem during the 10th century BC, when the Kingdom of David and Solomon was supposed to have flourished. A community that could have supported a kingdom did not form in Judea until at least a century later, Professor Thompson said. Jerusalem did not become a large and politically influential city until about 650 BC.
He added: ‘It is out of the question that Saul, David, and Solomon, as described as kings in the Bible, could have existed. I think the biblical accounts are wonderful stories, invented at the time when Jerusalem was part of the Persian Empire in the 5th Century BC.’
The Israelite nation, he believes, was a creation of the Persian Empire and was formed around 450 BC. But the people who were moved to Jerusalem at that time were not the descendants of those who had been deported from the city after the Bablyonian capture in 586 BC. They were descendants of Syrian, Philistine, Phoenician, Judean, and other peoples who had also been forcibly deported to Babylon.****
Notes:
* https://www.eoht.info/page/Abraham%20and%20Brahma
** The Daksha story is present in the Shiva and Vayu Purana. Daksha’s head wasn’t sacrificed, he was killed to break the sanctity of the yagna. He was killed by Veerbhadra, an ansh of Shiva for being responsible for the suicide of Daksha’s Daughter and Shiva’s wife, Sati. Plus it wasn’t Brihaspati who revived Daksha, it was Shiva who revived him on the pleading of Brahma.
*** The quote by Aristotle, it is actually a quote from Josephus, who attributes it to Clearchus, who is said to attribute it to Aristotle.
Selected References:
https://www.eoht.info/page/Abraham%20and%20Brahma
https://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/z3g3pf/brahma_abraham_and_sarah_saraswati_how_related/
https://vridar.org/2020/02/08/interview-with-thomas-l-thompson-1/
Makes perfect sense.
WOW……am I going to raise some hackles!
Absolutely love it, thank you author.