{"title":"A Bonfire Of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ancestral-tales-book-paul-mcgrane-9781739392604","title":"Ancestral Tales","description":"Christianity is based on the texts that make up the New Testament, but it has its roots in the books of the Jewish Old Testament which are also included in Christian Bibles. The stories of Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood, Joseph (and his coat of many colours), Moses leading the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt – these are all treasured by Christians, alongside the narratives of Jesus and his disciples.  The five so-called Books of Moses relate these Jewish ancestral tales, and this first volume analyses in detail the various source texts that make up these Books, to discover how much of them are based on real history. It compares them with other ancient texts not found in the Bible, notably those preserved in ancient Egyptian records, to separate truth from myth. It argues that we can identify in this way, the historical figures behind Jacob, Joseph and, most importantly, Moses and the Pharaoh of the Exodus. This then makes possible a firm dating for the Exodus itself, and a resolution of the complex relationships between the ancient Hebrews, Canaanites, Egyptians and most surprisingly, the so-called 'Sea Peoples' who appeared in history out of the chaos surrounding the collapse of civilisation at the end of the Bronze Age.  It may be possible to continue in Jewish or Christian belief in the light of this trilogy, but it would be a very different kind of religious faith from the one normally espoused. Each volume has been written to stand alone, but there is a natural sequence to the arguments developed which is facilitated if they are read in order.  Volume Two, Mistaken Messiahs, traces how Jewish messianic belief finds its way into the New Testament and Christianity and identifies historical figures behind Jesus and the Apostles.  Volume Three, Apocalypse Postponed, focuses on the Christian belief in imminent apocalypse and traces how thoroughgoing misunderstanding of the relevant Old and New Testament texts has led to two centuries of fallacious expectation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":55064558829941,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":55064558993781,"sku":"NIN9781739392604","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/1739392604.jpg?v=1739566753"},{"product_id":"mistaken-messiahs-book-paul-mcgrane-9781739392628","title":"Mistaken Messiahs","description":"Mistaken Messiahs is the second volume in a three-book series called A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled  A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled offers, in three volumes, a revolutionary new understanding of the roots of Judaism and Christianity by way of a complete, rationalistic re-interpretation of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. There has never been anything like this – in scope, in approach, and in findings. It may be possible to continue in Jewish or Christian belief in the light of this trilogy, but it would be a very different kind of religious faith from the one normally espoused. Each volume has been written to stand alone, but there is a natural sequence to the arguments developed which is facilitated if they are read in order.  This volume, Mistaken Messiahs, traces how Jewish messianic belief finds its way unrecognisably into the New Testament. It shows that the Jesus of the Gospels was a fiction disguising a more mundane reality. And that the entire chronology of 1st Century Palestine is shifted forwards by a decade, obscuring the real personalities and events behind the Christian story.  The previous volume, Ancestral Tales, traces the true ancestral and religious history of the Israelites and in particular, identifies among much else, the Pharoah of the Exodus, and the historical figures behind Joseph and Moses.  Volume Three, Apocalypse Postponed, focuses on the Christian belief in imminent apocalypse and traces how thoroughgoing misunderstanding of the relevant Old and New Testament texts has led to two millennia of fallacious expectation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":55064559845749,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":55064560107893,"sku":"NIN9781739392628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/1739392620.jpg?v=1739566766"},{"product_id":"apocalypse-postponed-book-paul-mcgrane-9781739392642","title":"Apocalypse Postponed","description":"Apocalypse Postponed is the third volume in a three-book series called A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled  In his latest groundbreaking book of biblical deconstruction, Dr Paul McGrane examines afresh the apocalyptic prophecies in the Old and New Testaments and convincingly demonstrates that they refer to events contemporary with the prophets concerned.  Apocalypse Postponed identifies the two dozen most prominent Biblical prophecies and anchors each firmly in the distant past. Most importantly, the writers of the Book of Revelation are identified and their prophetic preoccupations are shown to be parochial and utterly rooted in 1st Century AD Palestinian politics. The AntiChrist in particular is clearly demonstrated to be a chimera that emerged from a range of unrelated and obscure texts that can now be understood as arising from the activities and teachings of a 1st Century sorcerer who peddled an alternative version of Christianity to those promulgated by the early Apostles and St. Paul. We even know his name! Similarly, the ‘Mark of the Beast’ was not the sign of some future satanic character heralding the Apocalypse, but more mundanely, a ritual of anointment practised by the same 1st Century sorcerer.  Among the other such prophecies that are deconstructed in this book are:    Gog and Magog Armageddon The Heavenly Mother and Child The Beast From the Sea The Beast From the Land The ‘Mark’ of the Beast The Seven, Eight and Ten Kings The Great Harlot The Man of Sin\/Lawlessness The Restrainer   The first volume, Ancestral Tales, traces the true ancestral and religious history of the Israelites and in particular, identifies among much else, the Pharoah of the Exodus, and the historical figures behind Joseph and Moses. 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