Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Bart D. Ehrman
1. Forgery was a widespread phenomenon among early Christian literature (and in antiquity in general).
2. Contrary to popular scholarly opinions, early Christians did not look favorably on books forged in the name of another author but considered them outright lies to be rejected.
3. A number of the books of the NT were forged (or contain false attributions, fabrications, or falsifications).
Ehrman’s helpful overview of the various kinds of early Christian forgeries and his excellent treatment of early Christian views of pseudepigraphy are bright.
Chapter Four, “Alternatives to Lies and Deceptions” is where Dr. Ehrman excels, speaking to the reasoning and justification ... extrapolated to the ... Qur’an! His study of “pseudepigraphological” writings, secrecy of the writer and of God, and of the spiritual and philosophical rationalization provides the opposition arguments that so many books tend to neglect.
It is the final chapter that provides the true insight that Dr. Ehrman wishes to convey, defining the various forms and degrees of forgery that can be found most anywhere; from false attributions to out and out forgeries for profit or political gain. Throughout the text, the author provides ... the basis of critical thinking when reviewing any documentation.
There is a great lesson in Dr. Ehrman’s writings; don’t take the Bible as fact, but as myth and you will understand it better. This school is one this reviewer has seen and reviewed before. (See God’s Century and The Rise and Fall of the Bible, both reviewed at NYJB). It is the position many atheists take and many fundamentalists reject.
https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Bible-Interpretation-Reveals-History/dp/8894611752
A new interpretation of the Bible reveals the oldest secret in history.
If you read the Bible literally, everything becomes understandable and plain because the biblical authors did not feel the need, as we do, to advocate for a precise monotheistic theological perspective or a moral authority of religious order.
Through the pages of this book “God” will show himself in a light entirely unsuspected to most readers. The final portrait that will emerge will reveal the image of a character very different from what many of our readers are accustomed to.
The Bible, falsifications and mistranslations
From the necessity of harmonizing the biblical text with the theological and monotheistic conception of God of Western culture arises a whole series of falsifications and mistranslations, in view of which that first innocent printing typo I had discovered twenty-five years ago really seems like a “speck in the eye of the brother.” Instead, here we talk about massive logs that have remained in our eyes for hundreds and thousands of years, so long that we even ignore our blindness.
God or Gods?
In this book, I focus on the identity and character of Yahweh and the meaning of the term “Elohim.” When we read the term “God” in the Bible, this usually comes from the Hebrew term “Elohim.” However, at least when I worked for Edizioni San Paolo, the term “Elohim” was left untranslated into the interlinear edition of the Bible that we prepared for scholars and academia.
In the Bibles available to the public, the same term was translated as “God.” Therefore, where people read “God” and believe that the biblical authors wrote the equivalent of the word “God,” scholars read the term “Elohim.” This was to alert them that this word is problematic, to say the least, for the unbiased translator.
"My reading will result in most passages being unorthodox to a religious perspective. Some would say even heretical. For this reason, for all passages that indicate an unconventional, unexpected, and non-heterodox reading, we reproduce the original Hebrew text with the literal translation verbatim, word for word."
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Retraction Watch: Clinical trial fraud leads to prison; journal editors resigning en masse!
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our new list of papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
- “‘If Only She Could Have Been Stronger’: Miami Trial Fraud Leads to Prison, Personal Loss.”
- “Journal editors are resigning en masse: what do these group exits achieve?”
- A preprint estimates “at least 60,000 papers…were LLM-assisted.”
- “Legislator pushing anti-vax bill admits cited source was retracted from scientific journal.” Here’s that source.
- “The bottom line is that journals are not equipped with their volunteer editors and reviewers, and non-subject matter expert staff to police the world’s scientific enterprise.” A response from Anna Abalkina.
- “Publishers must own their past mistakes, accept that there will be mistakes in the future, and see retractions as best practice when it comes to dealing with published fraudulent articles.”
- “The Feds Want More Oversight of Scientific Research. Universities Are Fighting Back.”
- What should the annual budget of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity be?
- “Scientists oppose retractions for racism, sexism and fraud.”
- “It is time to stop the weaponization of the footnote.”
- “Fourth Black Female Harvard Scholar Accused of Plagiarism Amid Assault on DEI Initiatives.”
- “Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies.”
- “When it is and isn’t OK to recycle text in scientific papers.”
- “[T]here is low-quality work everywhere you look, the peer-review system has long outlived its utility, and academic publishing is a dumpster fire.”
- “Have AI-Generated Texts from LLM Infiltrated the Realm of Scientific Writing?”
- “Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations.”
- “The Case for a Peer Review Market.”
- Where do mass retractions leave Frontiers’ image?
- “Nobel Prize winner’s paper to be corrected, according to co-author.”
- A decade-plus of a perplexing “withdrawal” policy at Elsevier, in a thread.
- “How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court.” Including now-retracted papers.
- Open retraction data: A conversation about Crossref’s acquisition of the Retraction Watch Database.
- “[A]ll the stupid things that researchers say in order to deflect legitimate criticism.”
- Fun with authorship.
- Retractions in pharmacology.
- “Sweden Says Windpipe Surgeon Can Serve Prison Term In Spain.”
- “UW-Madison’s leading DEI scholar accused of decades of research misconduct.”
- “The Top Italian Scientists and their Journal.” Featuring some familiar names from Retraction Watch.
- “In published papers, authorship attribution and disclosure of funding support have emerged, oddly and unexpectedly, as elements of government enforcement in the ‘foreign influence’ area.”
- “Analysis of Indian Retracted Publications: A Study Based on Scopus Data.”
- “Can ChatGPT predict article retraction based on Twitter mentions?”
- “Virologist who was fired from research laboratory in Canada over security threat resurfaces in China.”
- “Two studies fail to replicate ‘holy grail’ DIANA fMRI method for detecting neural activity.”
Targeted Individuals (viz. targeted by vatican/sstate-sponsored terror, and esp. those targeted by the WHOLE UN) -- esp. subjects of [all unconsented & thus unlawful] ssecret human experimentation/ slow-kills/ crucifixion [by the UN/Vatican/Jesus etc.] -- are never given full/ adequate/ appropriate medical treatment, no matter WHERE they go on EARTH!! ... I experientially know of N. America/ Canada, Africa, Saudi Arabia (& SSHIa Axis), the Subcontinent and SouthEast Asia [and ALL WHO/Chabad-Vatican/Aga-Khan affiliated Hospitals & Clinics, worldwide, really] to be [as a huge COMPLICIT network/ HIVE!!] murderously/ psychopathically/ criminally GUILTY of [and WILL get its Karma for] administering the same [overt & covert] horrors/ abuse/ injustices/ murders [long before the covid scamdemic], as glimpsed from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEdwNfeELT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgqdfAomVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA&t=0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpV-KFH2pQ
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KikXqY0byqk1/ (by Liberium Arbitrium)
https://t.me/thespreadeagle/58886
Brief summary of the highlights:
1) I participated in the mass vaccination and I apologize to all those I harmed.
2) I knew that these drugs were EUA, Emergency Use Authorized, so no experiments had actually been done on animals or humans
3) I knew as a pharmacist and doctor that a product that forces the cells themselves to express the most toxic part of the virus would cause an enormous amount of autoimmune diseases, given that the immune system would attack and destroy all these cells that produced abnormal proteins. It would have destroyed cells in the heart, brain, ovaries, testicles.
Karma Karma (for Sion/ Zion/ SSHI(a)t/ Lucifer/ Dajjal/ Yajuj-Majuj/ Gog-Magog/ Freemasons/ GREED)!!
Failure/collapse of every lie/ liar/ fraud/ dajjal/ demon/ occultist/ pedoSSod ... all around the world.
Karma/Death Upon That "Boring, SSick, Parasitic & Evil F**king SSod of a SSun god/ MedUsa"!!
Death Upon Spooky Mendacio-Perfidio-Klepto-Pluto-Familio-Inverto-Culto-Lucifero-Molocho-cracies!!
Death Descends Upon All Dragons, Crowns, Agas and Families!
The Fat Lady Sings.
You Will Return My Life, In Full, Or You Will Perish.
All Kabbalists & Talmudists Will Die from Their Own Sorcery & Evil
Death 2 Death Dealers!! (Justice For Every Genie Wiley, Known & Unknown, & for Me)!
Wrong, Liars! Only the Circa 610 A.D. White[ness]!
Death 2 SSynagogmagog of SSatan/ SShadow SStates (Karma!)
Scientology: The SSick & Criminal Illuminati [Roman] Christian Church/ Cult That's Been Running Saudi Arabia (and Too Many Other Countries/ "Muslim" Countries) For Over A Century!!
