A Book of the Beginnings

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Cosimo, Inc., Sep 1, 2007 - Social Science - 700 pages
After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in ancient Egypt. His assertions, radical at the time-indeed, almost a century before the discovery of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa-resonate loudly today, when molecular biology is making corresponding discoveries alongside the still-raging creation-versus-evolution controversy. In Volume II, Massey intelligently argues an Egyptian origin for Biblical symbology, lexicography, and mythology. Here, he not only asks if the oldest Jewish and Christian axioms were really born on the banks of the Nile, he offers a stalwart and profound "Yes!" British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry, spiritualism, Shakespearean criticism, and theology, but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology, including The Natural Genesis and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World.
 

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XII
7
Hebrew Cruxes with Egyptian Illustrations
23
Religion Language and Letters
80
XIV
119
The Phenomenal Origin of JehovahElohim
125
XV
163
Egyptian Origin of the Exodus
176
XVI
191
The Egyptian Origin of the Jews Traced from
363
XIX
406
Egyptian Words
443
XX
457
XXI
523
African Origines of the Maori
535
Roots in Africa Beyond Egypt
599
Notes to Vol I
675

An Egyptian Dynasty of Hebrew Deities Identified
281

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