Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2019
I give thanks this day, Thanksgiving Day, 2019, that I have come into the knowledge of the source of the Bible. It was not King James of England, whose poetic version I love; nor was it the Vulgate or Latin Bible, that I do not possess ; nor was it the Latin’s source, the Septuagint , that was written in Greek by the 70 Jewish translators in Alexandria, Egypt. Nor was it the Hebrew Torah, which contains our “Old Testament” books of Moses; nor the other two Hebrew books that comprise the ‘Mithra’ and the Torah, as ‘TaNaKh’.
For the Bible’s source material is from Africa, where Alexandria was; which the Hebrews translated into Greek; where the great thrice -burned Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt was located from which they extracted substantial resources; that Great Library, “a wonder of the world,” having been thrice burned down by Romans, Christians, Muslims, variously.
Egypt is ancient, a gift of the Nile, whose sediment and floods made it the world’s breadbasket; and whose contributions to philosophy, theology, astronomy , literature , medicine, science, mathematics, civilization is utterly incalculable.
Its ancient cities today continue to yield treasuries such as those at Oxyrhyncus, Egypt, that contains Papyri of knowledge from every discipline , including the earliest Euclid’s geometry. Also there in Oxyrhyncus written in ancient Egyptians’s three written languages: hieroglyphics, Hieratic, Demotic, are yet untranslated facts (only 1-2% of which have been translated) in addition to Aramaic, Greek, Syriac, others. Plato says Egypt was over 10,000 years old, when he wrote his “The Laws.” Manetho, who was the last priest alive capable of reading the sacred hieroglyphics—who wrote a list of kings during the reign of the Greek Ptolemies—who dates Egypt more than 30,000 years old from the 4th century BC in which he listed kings.
So on this Thanksgiving Day, in 2019, I give holy thanks for having stumbled upon the source of the Bible: the gyroscope, barometer, thermometer, basal foundation, of Western Civilization that is the base of our national holiday, Holy Day!
Hurrah! Huzzah! Bravo !