the experts who study these issues. Just some of them keep silence out of politeness, the others do it because they belong to the interested circles.” The seniour guys grinned. “So as they say, those who want, will find out the truth. Information is available, you just need to have a wish…”
“I wonder when did ancient Jews manage to adopt so much from different peoples?” Stas uttered with a slight note of irony.
“I told you already that they were nomads and cattle-breeders,” Sensei repeated. “First Jewish priests forced their people to go and to conquer other lands, then their people became on these lands a captive for stronger nations. Even during the peaceful times they needed to find and to choose better places for settlement. How long did they live in the very Ancient Egypt? And some of them even became related with local people. Let’s take for example from those whom you know Abraham, so to say, ‘one of the first patriarchies of the Old Testament’, ‘the forefather of the Jewish people’…”
“The patriarchy-forefather? Does it mean that he was one of the first from the clan of Jewish priests?!” Stas gave a guess.
“I’m glad that you start to understand the essence,” Sensei remarked.
Nikolai Andreevich grinned and uttered, “Once I faced a quite interesting question. I was looking one country in the encyclopedia on states and suddenly an information about Israel stroke my eyes. Briefly saying, the historical article about this country and its lands begins from the fact that ‘around the year 2000 b.c. Abraham, the forefather of the Jewish people, came to Palestine from Mesopotamia’. And not a single word about Palestine. Just a small mark with a figure on the map of Israel, ’Palestinian territories’. And that’s all! I was surprised that there was no even a slight mention about those who inhabited in Palestine before that. And as far as I know, there was one of the ancient states on that lands.”
“What did you want,” Sensei shrugged his shoulders, “History for masses is unfortunately stuffed in most of its ‘facts’ in the kitchen of the world politics and is dished with decorations, so to say, in the form of ‘generally accepted historical concepts’.”
“Oh but, they are masters of such dishes!”
“I didn’t quite get it. Who was Abraham in fact, one of the first representatives from the clan of Jewish priests or the enlightened disciple of Jesus?” Kostya put a question trying to clear it out. “Sensei, once you told us…”
Andrew interrupted him impatiently, “What do you mean ‘once’?”
“Do you remember when some members of a sect came to our training?”
“Ah,” Andrew drawled. “It was when their guys, the journalist, looked for a meeting with Sensei?”
“Yes,” Kostya nodded and turned again to Sensei. “The matter concerned Mohammed. And you, Sensei, told us that the archangel Jabrail carried Mohammed in space and time to the city of Jerusalem where he arranged a meeting with Isa and his enlightened disciples Abraham and Moses.”
“Right you are,” Sensei confirmed. “The legend tells so. But the legend and the true history are two different things… In the light of religion they made from Abraham a ‘patriarchy’, ‘forefather’, ‘preacher of the faith’, even a certain ‘martyr’. All in all a legendary half-mythical personality who supposedly concluded with the very god Yahweh the ‘eternal covenant’ and approved that heirs of rights and resposibilites of this ‘covenant’ would be offsprings of Abraham born from his wife Sarah, and the sign of the ‘covenant’ for believers would be a circumcision for all male babies. But if to throw away all religious cover and exaggerations, the image of Abraham was created for worshiping by believers not without a reason.
“Indeed, in XVIIIth century b.c. (and not ‘about XXth century b.c.’ as they try to present it nowadays) there was a man called «’a-bu-ra-mu». It’s a Mesopotamian name typical for that time. In Jewish version it sounded as «’abraham» and was transformed into the name Abraham known to you by adding to the name ‘Abram’ comprising of two syllables an additional syllable for religious purposes. Thus, Abram was a native of the city of Ur in Southern Mesopotamia (in south of modern Iraq), it was the place where the Sumerian civilization existed long time ago until Sumerians were in the same ‘quiet and peaceful’ manner conquered by northern neighbors, nomadic Semites-Akkadians who adopted in their own way their culture. In the Bible this city is called as Ur of the Chaldees. However I would like to mention that the word ‘of the Chaldeans’ was associated with this city only in VII b.c. when it became a part of the Chaldean kingdom, or as it was also called, the New Babylonian kingdom which existed from 626 b.c. to 539 b.c. unless it was conquered by Persians.
“The ancient city of Ur (founded still by Sumerians) was located not far from Babylon. During the life of Abram it was one of the religious centres. By the way, the huge ‘zikkurat’ of Ur (the religious building constructed in the form of a peculiar truncated staged tower-pyramid with a temple on its top) is preserved to our days. In those days, though like today, religion was tightly connected with politics. And it should be mentioned that it were times of political changes. It was that time when Babylon began to gain in strength and the political centre of the Tigris-Euphrates river system started to shift there. Before that Ur was more significant city than Babylon by its political and trade influence (it was in that region one of the centres of Indian and Arab trade). And it represented one of the pillars of the Archons.”
“Pillars? In which sense?” Andrew didn’t get it.
“Be patient. I will tell you about it later… Abram’s father, Farrah (Terah) was a local priest (later Jews will call him an ‘idol sculptor’, and ‘idolater’) who consolidated in his hands both spiritual and secular full powers. And as an educated priest he knew well astrology, astronomy, mathematics and certainly grammar. He imparted this knowledge to his children. Farrah was one of few rich priests who were directly connected with Archon’s circle, it means, those who tried to control secretly let’s call it ‘international politics’ by manipulating the mighty of the world. The secret membership in this clan was inherited by son from father, that is only through the male line. So, it was namely Farrah who was entrusted with controlling over building of the ‘new pillars’ in the regions pointed out by the Archons, as they agreed on the following influence of Farrah’s offsprings there in the future, and who sent his son Abram to Khanaan. “
“Well, he has sent him far away,” Eugene uttered with compassion.
Sensei just smiled together with the seniour guys and continued, “
“In Khanaan, as this region was called by Jews (it comprised of the Palestinian territories as well), the cities-states of one of the most ancient civilizations were located, its heyday fell on the times of existence of Sumerian civilization. I emphasize, there were civilized cities-states and not just a land in which as they try to prove now ‘the tribes of Khanaaneans-farmers settled down’. And the local people living in these lands wasn’t affiliated in any way with Jewish tribe as it is written in the legends of the Old Testament, ‘with the grandson of Noah and the son of Kham, Khanaan,’ whose offsprings were allegedly Khanaaneans. Jewish priests who wrote the Old Testament just substituted the root.”
“Was there the ancient civilization on the Palestinian territory in the days of Sumerians? Why is there no available information on it till now?”Nikolai Andreevich was surprised.
“Look on the map, under whose control were these territories. You have read yourself how the historical article on these lands begins. Do you think it was favorable for offsprings of Jewish priests to reveal what had existed here before them? On the contrary they try hard to connect their people to these lands because it’s beneficial for them, in the first
