What if the Christian Bible does not actually say what you have been taught?
What if mistranslations and mis-transliterations have changed the original story?
Someone who knows all too well about translation and transliteration is Mauro Biglino. Mauro Biglino is an Italian biblical scholar, translator, and best-selling author for Mondadori, one of the major publishing houses in Italy. During his career, Biglino has directed and supervised the translation and publication of 17 books of the Old Testament for Edizioni San Paolo, Italy’s main Catholic publisher, whose Vatican-approved texts are used in theological, ancient Hebrew, and biblical studies schools and universities.
Once stripped of all unnecessary interpretations, the Bible appears to be very different from how it has always been narrated: it does not contain a spiritual, almighty and all-knowing God. There is no concept of eternity. No apples, nor slithering tempting serpents. No winged angels. Not even the Red Sea: the people of the Exodus simply fords a bed of reeds.
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If they change the translations of the early philosophers that could be an issue as the parallelisms between the early philosophers, pre Hebrew Bible could be scratched out and then that builds another layer of fake armour into the Bible. No, we need accurate translations of all sources.
♪♫♥Very Interesting – Thank you for sharing this 😉 Mr Biglino is great master of this subject !
Mario what version of the Bible are you reading from besides the Hebrew
Hello, I really have become a fan of Mauro Biglino. I have two of his books. I want to get more of his books but I can't find what books of his are in English. How can a list of his English translations be found? I have tried many ways of finding out but have failed. Thank you in advance.
Q: In the Baal Cycle the villian is named Yam but he gets his name changed to Yaw for his tyrannical actions. The oldest Yahweh (sometimes called Yah) inscription ever found is the Mt Ebal curse tablet and YHWH is just YHW on it. Yaw, who used to be named Yam. In the Baal Cycle Yam had two beastly aspects called Leviathan and seven-headed Tannin. Since Yam was the Canaanite word for Sea we could call this plurality of aspects Sea Beasts. Could you make a case that the Dragon and Sea Beasts in Revelation are again the Unholy Trinity of the Bible? Also the Bronze Age collapse was caused by a mysterious Sea Peoples which sounds like Yam covering his tracks since he lost theologically in the Baal Cycle. The Book of Joshua could be a retelling of the Bronze Age collapse.
A: Based on the connections you've outlined between the Canaanite mythology of the Baal Cycle, the figure of Yam/Yaw who later becomes associated with Yahweh, and the symbolism of sea beasts/dragons in the biblical Book of Revelation, I can certainly explore how one could construct an argument that these represent recurring manifestations of an ancient "Unholy Trinity" antagonistic to the supreme divine principles.
The Baal Cycle as Prototype
In the Ugaritic Baal cycle myths, the deity Yam (meaning "Sea") is portrayed as a primal, chaotic, serpentine force threatening to upend the fertile, ordered cosmos established by Baal and the other high gods. Yam's bestial aspects like the seven-headed serpent Lotan (Leviathan) and Tannin represent the untamed, destructive energies of the primordial waters resisting divine structure.
This mythological motif echoes widespread ancient Near Eastern conceptions of great Sea Beasts/Dragons embodying the negative forces of entropy, disorder, and existential dissolution that the high creator gods must perpetually defeating in maintaining reality's integrity. The Babylonian Tiamat is another classic iteration of this archetype.
Yam's jealous, tyrannical ambition to usurp rulership from the highergods, employing his monstrous Sea Beast avatars, could symbolize a disruption of cosmic harmony by a lower, chaotic did force challenging the natural, life-affirming order and hierarchy. His name change to Yaw/Yahweh potentially tracks this devolved figure's adoption into early Hebrew traditions.
The Sea Peoples and Bronze Age Collapse
Significantly, you note the intriguing potential connection between this Sea Beast mythology and the enigmatic Sea Peoples cited as a key factor precipitating the chaotic Bronze Age Collapse that upended many ancient Mediterranean civilizations around 1200 BCE.
Their striking association with maritime invasion forces emerging from the chaotic primordial seas to shatter long-standing centers of order and sovereignty does vividly evoke the symbolic potencies of figures like Yam and his serpentine avatars representing primal disruptive forces overturningestablied harmony and hierarchy. The biblical Book of Joshua's accounts of the Israelites' violent subjugation of Canaanite city-states could plausibly mythologize this same historical convulsion.
Revelation's Sea Beast
So when the biblical Book of Revelation describes a saturated return of the ancient Sea Beast/Dragon archetype, replete with its seven heads, ten horns, and ability to make "war on the saints", we could theorize this as a symbolic reeruption or recapitulation of that same primal Yam/Yahweh current – the malefic, idolatrous, and anarchic spirit forever antagonistic to the highest order and harmony represented by the Lamb/Christ figure.
Within Revelation's dramatic astrological/metaphysical chronology, the reemergence of the Sea Beast/Dragon from the chaotic subsistent depths could denote the final, eschatological phase where the ancient countervailing forces congregate in one ultimate push to overwhelm and dissolute God's perfected new creation – the New Jerusalem consciousness.
The Unholy Trinity Persists
Crucially, the Sea Beast's liaison with the subservient Beast from the Earth and the binding Satanic Dragon of Revelation 13 does present a sort of triune, demonic perversion or aping mockery of the Holy Trinity's unific creator principles. Where the Trinity represents the eternal soul, logos, and Divine spirit, this "Unholy Trinity" signifies the deceptive corporeal idolatries, abyss-born disruptions, and scattering/veiling influences that continually obstruct spiritual illumination.
Across pivotal junctures, this triune Anti-Cosmosmic force symbolically persists in its primordial enmity towards the highest vibrational harmonies, wielding distorted socio-political reifications to dissipate souls further into materialistic entropy. Its repeated manifestations, from the Mesopotamian Sea Chaos Monsters to Yam's beastly avatars to the eschatological Book of Revelation, betrays its origination in archetypal human experiential realities transcending cultures and eras.
Perennial Adversary of Transcendent Order
So in summation, I believe one could quite coherently posit the Sea Beast composite of Revelation as yet another symbolic instantiation of those same primordial, adversarial counter-forces to divine cosmic order that run throughout ancient mythology and scripture under disparate names – whether Mesopotamian Tiamat, Canaanite Yam/Lotan, or Hebraic yahwist Leviathan.
Its resurgence could represent the ultimate materialization of those same deluded spiritual impulses springing from fragmented human idolatries and entropic identifications that the highest religious wisdom has forever aimed to redeem and re-integrate into holistic sublimity. The Sea Beast/Unholy Trinity thereby emblematizes the culminating stage of the human existential struggle against the veiled alienation effects of our psychic subjugation to de-evolutionary forgetfulness.
Under this archetypal lens, the sweeping eschatological conflict depicted in Revelation's climax emerges as the eternal spiritual battle writ cosmic – the final confrontation between fractured mortal travail and the infinite liberating consciousness heralded by the redeeming God/Christ/Logos figure. Regardless of how one ultimately evaluates this hermeneutic model's plausibility, it undoubtedly presents a rich symbolic tapestry for meditating upon the deepest quandaries of human consciousness, cosmic origins, and our shared metaphysical/existential yearnings across cultures and ages.