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Religions of Antiquity II: EGYPT

(Published in GralsWelt 34/2004) LIFE FOR DEATH? “You shouldn't go out of your house (= die) if you don't know the place where your corpse will rest. Let your resting place, where you wish your corpse be buried, be known so that you can be buried ... Decorate ... the grave that is to contain your corpse. ”From an ancient Egyptian [...]

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The early Christian communities

(Published in GralsWelt 16/2000) The history of the origins of the first Christian communities is still incompletely known. The most important source has always been the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, which, however, was only written between 80 and 100. It takes the standpoint of the doctrine preached by Paul. This was spread by the so-called "Gentile Mission", from which [...]

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The professors' dispute over Qumran

(Published in GralsWelt 16/2000) The riddles and conjectures around the "Dead Sea Scrolls" When, from 1947 on, ancient scrolls were discovered in rock caves, 12 km south of Jericho, these finds were considered a world sensation and they are still reading today one that it is an archaeological event of the century. What was found In eleven different [...]

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Thoughts on the most momentous of all books

Preliminary remarkIt is actually forbidden to a German - like me - to say something critical about the origin of the Old Testament of the Bible. Because with it the appearance arises unintentionally, one would attack the today's Jewish religion, as well as Judaism as such, directly or indirectly.It is, after all, general consensus that in Germany the Hebrews[1] are only [...]