Michael Shaughnessy EducationNews Senior Columnist on June 6, 2012
Michael
F. Shaughnessy -
1)
First of all, tell us about yourself, where you were born, and where you are
currently working and what you are researching.
I
was born on July 26, 1960, in Béra, Ilam province, Eastern Kurdsán. That is
the archaeological site Béra.xáni “Béra dukedom” (the Farsi Badreh). From
1990, I have been of Dutch (Netherlands) nationality, a citizen of The Hague.
Since
1994, I have dedicated my whole time to independently researching the ancient
Near East archaeological sources for early culture, history and ethnography
of the mankind, all over the world in different universities including the
University of Leiden Netherlands, the University of Oxford, the University of
Cambridge, the University of Chicago, British Museum, London University and
the British Library in London.
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Dr. Shaughnessy, Eastern New Mexico University Portales, New Mexico is
currently Professor in Educational Studies and is a Consulting Editor for
Gifted Education International and Educational Psychology Review. In
addition, he writes for EducationViews.org and the International Journal of
Theory and Research in Education....
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2)
Now, tell us about this book “Bible Discovered” – when did you decide to
write it and why?
In
2009, I decided to prepare the publication of the discovery of the Bible
part. Because of the huge amount of linguistically, historically and
anthropologically innovation subjects, I had to limit the title. The Bible
Discovered is a result of the development of my research. Further deepening
and expanding of my statements in the Berai 2002, Het Elamitisch de nieuwe
verklaring and Berai 2003, Hoe oud zijn de Kurden (in Duth), see the books on
http://www.elamirkan.net/index_files/Page1323.htm.
3)
Are you focusing on the Old or New Testament?
The
Bible was not the intention of my research but in the course of the search I
realized and for the first time, concrete traces of many of the Old Testament
stories in the archaeological texts and identified the biblical roots,
figures, terms and also some Christian traditions and symbols of the New
Testament in the archaeological sources.
4) Are
you examining the Bible from a literature perspective, or an archeological
perspective?
From
the archaeological perspective, I made connection between some of the
biblical tales with archaeological evidences, which provide the scientific
legitimacy for the biblical accounts.
5)
Why study social systems in the Bible- what relevance are they?
The
patriarchally terms in the Bible and the Kurdish language are controllable
facts, accordingly to justify that by the modern scholars identified
determinatives for identification of names of the Gods, countries and cities
are false.
Consequently,
the contemporary accepted ancient Near East gods names are false, they cannot
stand. The ancient “dinger, dinker, il, ila, ili, ilu, nap, nab” which are
identified as determinative before divine names, in accordance with
examination of these terms in the contexts, they are not determinatives
before divine names.”
For
instance, traditionally the word Babel (Babylon) stands instead of the next
words:
Ba,
Bau, Babu, Babili, Babilu, Ka-, Kaka, Gaga, Din-, Dinkir, Ka-dinger-raki,
Bábil, Pápil, Apal, Abali, Pápiili, pápiili(ir-ra), Bábiŕu, Bábiŕuš,
Bábiŕuaw, Bábiŕuv(w)iya, bábiliki, báwiliki, etc.
In
other words, the scholars, at the translation of ancient Near East scripts,
have replaced and demonstrated these words with Bable or Babylon.
In
Bible Discovered: Bible = Babel (Babylon), I gathered together these, from
the decipherment of the cuneiform scripts, which are demonstrated by great
researchers like W. Hinz, Rykle Borger, JA. Brinkman. M.J. Steve and others
in the field of ancient Near East Civilization.
Except
Din “religion” and Dingir, Dinkir “origin of the word cardinal, religious
profession”, the rest of these names mean “father, papal, fatherly, patriarch
or patriarchally”; that is clear in present Kurdish.
Dinger
or dinker is identified as determinative before God’s name and stands also
for the word Babylon (above). It is true according to Kurdish that ká
dingirraki “fatherly religious-ministry” = Bábiliki “papally-ministry,
patriarchal-ship, fathership” as a social system. But ká dingirraki cannot be
replaced with Bábiliki (Babylon), as it happened. Bábiliki and ká-dingirraki
in no sense indicate Babylon (land, country).
Indeed,
it is well known in adopted available information and educational sources in
dictionaries and in the Encyclopedias that Babel (Babylon) means “Gate of
Gods” and the holy Bible has been described as: [Middle English, from Old
French, from Late Latin biblia, from Greek, pl. of biblion, book, diminutive
of biblos, papyrus, papyrus, pa.py.rus.es or pa.py.ri (-r) "papyrus,
book, from Bublos, Byblos". [Middle English papirus, from Latin paprus,
from Greek papros], plural of biblion book, diminutive of biblos papyrus,
from Bublos Phoenician port from which Greece obtained Egyptian papyrus].
Apocrypha (Books of the Bible). (Collins English Dictionary -Complete and
Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003.)
It
is clear now that the “biblia, pl. biblion, biblos, papyrus, papyruses or
papyri (-r), Bublos, Byblos” are certainly derived from the ancient Near
East, the Kurdish pa, ba, baw or bab. Compare the holy Bible to Bábil, Pápil,
Apal which mean “papal, fatherly, patriarchal”; Compare papyrus to Bábiŕu,
Bábiŕuš, Bábiŕuaw, Bábiŕuv(w)iya “in the manner of father, patriarchally,
fatherly” and compare papyri(-r) to Pápiili, pápiili(ir-ra) “papally,
patriarchally, fatherly”. Compare the English biblically to bábiliki,
báwiliki “patriarchally”; compare the Apo-crypha to “Ápú-, fatherly-books”.
Despite
all speculations concern the name holy Bible, it is clear now that the Bible
certainly has a more ancient root, the ancient Near East Babil (patriarchal).
Compare the holy name Bible to Bábil, Pápil, Apal, Abali; which mean “papal,
fatherly”. Accordingly it is clear how the Bible-scriptures stand for
“patriarchal-books”and nothing else. See Bible Discovered (Note 5)
Pictographs for Ba, Bau, Babu, Babili, Babilu, Ka, Din, Dingir and (Note 6)
Inconsistency between pictographs for Babylon.
The
Biblical Noah might be identified to ancient Near East Nah, Nahhu “the nah”,
and Nahunda “objective, the Nah concerns”, which at the accepted
decipherments has been identified as the Elams Sun God Nahhunte in Akkad.
The
biblical Deluge, the flood story of Noah is the reason behind the name
Euphrates River. The variants ancient names for the Euphrates River
“(U)frahat, (U)prhat, (U)áma, etc.” are Kurdish words for “deluge,
(water)-flood”, which are clearly dedicated to the Biblical deluge, the water
flood of Noah.
According
to Kurdish, the Biblical Šam son of Noah should be identified to Nabu-shuma
“the prophet Šum, Šám”. The ancient Near East tekst Mâr-bîti-shumi-bni which
is falsely demonstrated as Mâr-bîti-shum-ibni, might mean “descent of house
of Šum”. That is the biblical Šám son of Noah and identical to the state Šám,
Šum (the contemporary Syrian capital Damascus and contemporary Syria-Lebanon
plateau), which is dedicated to the eponymous ancestor Šum of Noah. Mâr-bîti
means “house member(s)”.”
The
Kurdish names for Prophet Abraham “Ura and Bela” occur repeatedly in ancient
Near East texts, which are the historically reasons behind many dedicated
names of regions and patriarchal indications.
The
prophet Abraham to be identified in the ancient Near East scripts to
napi.ir.úri; according to Kurdish napi.ir.uri means “the prophet Abraham”.
Napi,
nabi, nabú “adjectival, naba d.art., mean prophet, from the root nap”. And
ura, uri, urám, abráim, bráhím are Kurdish names for Abraham. Very remarkable
the Kurdish names for Abram, the Ur variants, have been attested in ancient
texts by Borger 331 (182)”
Ur
seems to be the root of the word Hebrew. Ura and Abra(m) are the same words,
e.g. Kurdish ur “cloud” and Farsi-Arabic loanword abr “cloud”. In this case
according to Kurdish Hebrew (Habru, Abru, Uru), adjective plural, means
“Abramians, Abrahamians”, which corresponds to the Old Testament story of the
Jewish people, Abramians; this is self-evident.”
Ura
(Orhay) is the birthplace of Abram and that Nimrud ‘ruled in Erekh, which is
Ura, according to Mar Ephraim Súryaya (the Xedr Aliás).
The
identification of Ura with Erekh stems from the Biblical passage Erekh, Bible
(Gen. 10:10)
“The
accepted determinatives for a city name are false, I have proved that
repeatedly in the Bible Discovered. Consequently the biblical claim that
“Nimrud ruled in Erekh (Ark), which is Ura” is true. The Erekh to be
understood as the remained citadel ruins of the Court of Nimrud in the city
Ura, Ŕuhá.”
The
Bronzes inscriptions from Luuŕsu (treated in the book) prove a single unified
culture and diversity in monoculture from Dáĺeki, Húzsu to Bábiliki and the
patriarchal divisions.
Dáĺegi
is the indigenous name of the present Bushehr (Southeastern Iran). Dáĺegi or
Dáĺeki means “motherhood matriarchally, matriarchalism”. Húzsu is the
indigenous name of the contemporary Ahwaz in Iran. Húzsu means “multi-party,
multiculturalism”. Bábiliki, Báwilaki, Báwĺai stand for Babel (the corrupted
Babylon in contemporary Iraq) means “fatherhood, patriarchally, patriarchalism”.
Abla (Ebla), Apla, Apú “father, patriarch” is the proper indigenous name of
the corrupt Arabized Al-eppo in Syria. The Kurdish patriarchal divisions
regard the Ezidian, Jewish and Christian. The Islam is based on the early
Kurdish multicultural tradition the Ezidianism, early Judaism and early
Christianity.
6)
What is this Institute Elamirkan?
Institute
Elamirkan is an independent research and educational institution; I
established it in 2001 in the Netherlands (registered KVK-number 27199183).
Institute Elamirkan replaced the former Kurdish Mirkan Association which was
established in 1994 in The Hague Netherlands.
The
name Elamirkan is abbreviated of Elam Mirkan which designates cultural
heritage of the ancient Kurds. The discovery began with the Elam and Elamite
scriptions that are the reason behind the name Elamirkan. But in the course
of the research became obvious that not only Elamite, all ancient Near
Eastern scriptions (excavated in ancient Kurdish territories) are scribed in
Kurdish tribal languages.
I
realized, for the first time, that the contemporary accepted interpretations
of ancient Near East scriptions are not correct, consequently the scholars
have a wrong understanding of the early human civilizations, languages and
history. The institutes and museums, consciously or unconsciously, provide
the world public and the scientific circuits with wrong information about
early human civilizations and ethnography. Many of the historically observed
facts behind the conventional scientific wisdom about the early human
civilizations are hoaxes. By not taking the time to correct the wrongs, the
modern scholars are continuing to falsify ancient documents, and mislead
public opinion by providing them with wrong information.
To
stop the continuing falsification of ancient Near Eastern historical
documents, I call for a serious re-evaluation of what is being put out in
academic works and to the public about ancient Near East.
The
Institute Elamirkan tries to correct and reinterpret the ancient Near Eastern
ethnologies, history and languages. By means of research come to a justifying
interpretation of the ancient Near Eastern civilization, where the proof can
be given on historical, ethnological, and etymological grounds and is backed
up by the cultural relationships between the ancient Near Eastern and
European language families in many areas. The Kurdish language and oral
traditions play the key role in this discovery.
7)
Symbols- why are they important in the big scheme of things?
The
cross symbol images on the cover of the Bible Discovered date from 4000 BC.
The
wrong assessments of ancient Near East also betray historians, sociologists
and philosophers
Philosophy
and conceptual religion did not begin with the foundation of the Greek
philosophy or the raising of the Chinese or Indic religion, around the sixth
century before Christ.
There
are archaeological evidences for philosophy and conceptual religion in
ancient Near East from at least 4000 before Christ in Kurdish.
America’s
premier sociologist, Robert Bellah in a recent book, “Religion in Human
Evolution” tries to identify when religion emerged and how it changed through
the centuries.
He
ends with the Axial Age of the sixth century before Christ, focusing on
ancient India, Israel, Greece and China.
Bellah
identifies three stages: enactive, symbolic and conceptual. Basic rituals are
part of the first, then myth and legend, and finally ethical and theological
reasoning. The conceptual stage is one related to the Axial Age, roughly
around the sixth century BC, when Plato and other thinkers founded Greek
philosophy and the Buddha and other teachers raised Indic religion to a whole
new conceptual level, according to Bellah.
From
a Kurdish perspective in the book Bible Discovered, I made it clear that the
modern sociology and philosophy are based on wrong assessments concern the
early culture, history and ethnography of the mankind.
The
very notion of the Axial, conceptual stage did not begin with the foundation
of the Greek philosophy or the raising of the Chinese or Indic religion,
around the sixth century before Christ.
The
world’s most influential philosophies were founded at least 4000 before
Christ in the ancient Near East in Kurdish language. The Axial symbols
(Coptic Cross and Maltese Cross ) in the sense of “religious profession and
act, mass, mission” occur on ancient Kurdish care bowls and dishes from 4000
BC; see the cover of Bible Discovered and pg. 104-105; also see under
Din-ger-ki, Din-ker-ki, Ul-maš-ki.
The
ancient Near East cuneiform sign (maš) means “act, mass, mission”.
The
ancient Near East axis, axial, cuneiform sign (dinger, dinker) means
“religious profession, cardinal”; from the root din “religion” and ger, ker
“create, creator”. So din-ker is the origin of the word car-din-al “religious
profession”.
These
also make assured that the contemporary assumption – the origins of religious
profession date from the time when Christians were recognized in the Church
as followers after perfection in the practice of religious life, – is not real
and should be corrected in: “the origins of religious profession date from
the holy ancient Kurdish time when believers were recognized in the Kerk
(Church) as followers after perfection in the practice of religious life.”
8) Who should read this book? Why?
Written
for those interested in human history, culture and religion, who are seeking
to broaden their understanding of the language, culture, and accomplishments
of the ancient people.
Bible
Discovered is meant for scholars and serious students of the ancient Near
East civilizations and the Biblical archaeology.
Archaeologically,
anthropologically, cultural, and linguistically the book is a fascinating, if
controversial, counterclaim to accepted doctrines. The book presents a wealth
of information for readers to examine. It is filled with unique information
as it provides a realistic and ample amount of understanding of the ancient
sources of human civilization.
With
the further deepening and expanding of the research on subjects which have
been discussed in my work, I have enjoyed more and more success in finding
scientific proofs and sources for my statements. Those have led to new
revelations, which I hope to share with readers along this journey of
discovery in the Bible Discovered: Bible = Babel (Babylon). I call for a
serious re-evaluation of what is being put out in academic works and to the
public about ancient Near East.
9)
Why do you consider this book to be important?
Many
of the historically observed facts behind the conventional scientific wisdom
about the early human civilizations are hoaxes.
The
statements which have become conventional scientific wisdom and public
opinion in the name of linguistic, historical and ethnological sciences are
inadequate and deceptive.
The
well-known ancient Near Eastern civilizations Elam, Babylon, Sumer, Akkad,
Hittite, Assyria etc., were not countries or country-languages.
The
ancient languages which are unjustly by the European experts called as
Elamite, Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Hittitian, Assyrian, Syriac, Persian
etc. cannot stand, since the texts are clearly written in the Kurdish myriad
languages and the Babylon, Sumer and Akkad were not countries or
country-languages, but patriarchal social systems.
The
scientific legitimacy of the division of the languages to Indo-European and
Semitic fall at all since the Indo-European related words are rooted in
ancient Near East which are more ancient than Sanskrit. And the Semitic
languages cannot stand since these languages are more ancient than the Sam.
Sam the eponymous ancestor of the Semitic is to be identified in the ancient
texts as a Kurdish descendent, thus.
The
Table of Nations and the Genealogy of Mankind
The
Biblical Noah and his house descendants occur repeatedly in the ancient Near
East texts. The listed children of Naoh, the descendants of house of Noah in
the bible Genesis 10, cannot be taken as the Table of Nations neither as the
Genealogy of Mankind. The chronological bible Genesis indicates only the
local Kurdish ethnic groups, identical with the present name of many
contiguous Kurdish ethnics and their issued regions.
11)
Where can interested scholars get a copy of your book?
“Bible
Discovered: Bible = Babel (Babylon)” is available for sale internationally
paperback and kindle edition online at Amazon and other channels.
Available
also by Elamirkan on http://www.elamirkan.net/index_files/Page1323.htm
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