“Tzemah Yoreh hopes his books will inspire fresh debate about how the Bible was assembled.”
A group of rabbi want to bring back sacrificing animals – to please God! I was horrified to discover ten of millions of Christians believe the letting of Jesus’ blood – saved them! During COVID many Christians went to church – believing the spilled blood of Jesus would protect them! I suspect ex-family and friends chose to believe I AM INSANE thinking I am claiming to be that bloody Jesus who was crucified by the Jews who did not buy it, that a betrayed Jew had to die so Gentiles can be free of son, and know eternal life.
In my opinion the world has gone insane – and it’s going to get worse. I have dealt with much insanity in my life. I have been Crucified With Mental Illness – so the real insane can go free! The most devastating Trial By Insanity, is the turning of my daughter and grandson against me. My prostate cancer may be coming back. I have an appointment to have imaging on the 9th. Not once did my daughters, Heather Hanson, call me to ask how my radiation treatment was going.
Tzemah Yoreh, a Jewish scholar believes Abraham – did kill his son Isaac. Did his family turn their back on him – after calling him INSANE? Many people all over the world are being called INSANE for believing Israel is guilty of War Crimes.
John Presco ‘The Father’
“I think many will agree with me that this is a clear example of the failure of U.S. policy in the Middle East,” Putin said at a Kremlin meeting on Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani.
Putin said that the U.S. had tried “to monopolize” the conflict, but was “unfortunately unconcerned with finding compromises acceptable for both sides,” according to a transcript on the Kremlin website.
He said that the U.S. was not “taking into account the fundamental interests of the Palestinian people,” such as “the need to implement the decision of the U.N. Security Council on the creation of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state.”
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While scholars debate over the location and even the translation of “Golgotha” (Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17), the writer of Hebrews provides a solid clue as to where Jesus died:For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
Rabbis aim to renew animal sacrifices
Group looking for sheep to offer on Temple Mount; Islamic cleric protests.
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A fringe group of extremist rabbis wants to resume the biblical practice of animal sacrifice at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, members said Wednesday, defying centuries of religious bans and triggering a stiff protest from a Muslim leader. The group, called the “Re-established Sanhedrin” after the Temple-era religious high court, has decided to buy some sheep and try to find one that is ritually perfect for sacrifice, with an eye toward resuming the practice.Steinsaltz addresses event for revived Sanhedrin “Regrettably, there are many extremist Israeli groups who want to carry out their plans,” said Jerusalem’s senior Islamic cleric, Mohammed Hussein. “Let them say what they want, Al Aksa is a Muslim mosque.” The 71 members of the “Re-established Sanhedrin” say they want to begin sacrificing animals again, despite the absence of the Temple, the ritual altar and all the required implements listed in the Bible. Rabbi Dov Stein of the group admitted that it won’t be any time soon. “We want to do the sacrifice, but we have political problems,” Stein said. “We hope there will come a time when the government will agree. We will push for that to happen.” Other rabbis point out that ritual animal sacrifice has been banned since the destruction of the Second Temple in A.D. 70. “Around that time, animal sacrifice, as a mode of religious worship, stopped for Jews, Christians and Muslims,” said Rabbi Doniel Hartman of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. “Moving back in that direction is not progress.”
When Abraham murdered Isaac
A young New York scholar believes he has unearthed the earliest version of the Bible, which features infanticide, a senseless massacre and only seven commandments
By HAVIV RETTIG GUR 28 November 2012, 1:32 pm46
Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac — the version that inspired Caravaggio — in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)
NEW YORK — When he first came to believe he had discovered how the Biblical forefather Isaac died, Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh says he went into mourning.
“I literally sat shiva for him, for the forefather I had lost, and for the Abraham who could perpetrate such a thing,” said Yoreh, who was then just 21.
The Biblical story we have inherited is not the original story, Yoreh believes. Using a variation of a well-known approach to Biblical scholarship, he sees hints of a bloodier version of Isaac’s binding that he finds too convincing to ignore.
In the earliest layer of the Biblical text, Yoreh believes, Isaac was not rescued by an angel at the last moment, but was in fact murdered by his father, Abraham, as a sacrifice to God.
One eye-opening hint at what he believes is the original story lies in Genesis 22:22. Previously, in verse 8, Abraham and Isaac had walked up the mountain together. But in verse 22, only Abraham returns.
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“So Abraham returned unto his young men [waiting at the foot of the mountain], and they rose up and went together to Beersheba,” the text relates.
That strange contradiction, Yoreh says, may be why a few ancient midrashim, or rabbinic homilies, also assumed Isaac had been killed.
In one homily quoted by Rashi, the revered 11th-century French rabbi and commentator, “Isaac’s ashes are said to be suitable for repentance, just like the ashes of an [animal] sacrifice.”
“That’s a very weird midrash,” Yoreh says, “since Isaac is clearly alive in the next chapter. But that’s the way midrash works. It analyzes episodes without looking at the larger context. That’s why you can have midrashim about Isaac dying, because it doesn’t have to notice that he’s alive in the next chapter.”
There are many hints of Isaac’s untimely demise. The sacrifice story itself contains strange contradictions and clues that are best resolved, he believes, by assuming a very different, earlier narrative.
Tzemah Yoreh hopes his books will inspire fresh debate about how the Bible was assembled. (Courtesy of Tzemah Yoreh)
In verse 12, after staying Abraham’s knife-wielding hand in mid-air, the angel of God tells the father of monotheism, “I now know you fear God because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
That phrase, “have not withheld your son,” “could indicate Abraham was merely willing to sacrifice his son, or that he actually did so,” Yoreh says.
One hint that it may have been the latter is contained in the names for God used in the story. The Biblical text calls the God who instructs Abraham to sacrifice his son “Elohim.” Only when the “angel of God” leaps to Isaac’s rescue does God’s name suddenly change to the four-letter YHWH, a name Jews traditionally do not speak out loud.
Elohim commands the sacrifice; YHWH stops it. But it is once again Elohim who approves of Abraham for having “not withheld your son from me.”
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These sorts of variations, rampant throughout the Bible, have led scholars to conclude that different names for God are used by different storylines and editors.
Indeed, Isaac is never again mentioned in an Elohim storyline. In fact, if you only read the parts of Isaac’s life that use the name Elohim, you don’t have to be a Bible scholar to see the story as one in which Isaac is killed in the sacrifice and disappears completely from the Biblical story.
“Not that the YHWH portions make much of an effort to bring him back to life either,” Yoreh notes. Indeed, Isaac seems to fade after the sacrifice, with his life story told in just one chapter, compared to more than a dozen chapters for both Abraham and Jacob.
Worse yet, Isaac’s chapter “is all recycled from Abraham’s life.” Just as Abraham signs a pact with the king Avimelech, so does Isaac. And just as Abraham passes off his wife, Sarah, as his sister to avoid being killed by Avimelech, so does Isaac with his own wife, Rebecca.
“It’s hard to characterize [Isaac’s life after the sacrifice] as distinct stories,” says Yoreh. “They’re just repeated elements, a recycling of the material.”
In the earliest Biblical narrative, Yoreh believes, Isaac died that day on Mt. Moriah. Far from setting an example in which God intervenes to end human sacrifice, Abraham, the father of monotheism, is revealed as a man who can walk his own son to the altar and even wield the blade himself.
A Gentler Explanation
It’s not easy to produce new readings of a text that has been read, reread, deconstructed and reconstructed as many times and in as many ways as the Hebrew Bible. Then again, few texts have yielded as many layers and spurred as much intellectual innovation.
In a new book series titled “Kernel to Canon,” Yoreh, an Israeli-American dual citizen who now lives in New York, is attempting to add his own voice to the vast ancient bookshelf of Biblical commentary.
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A surprisingly young 34, Yoreh’s love for the Bible has only grown since his discovery of what was hidden in its layers. He earned his PhD in Bible from Hebrew University in 2004, and has taught at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Ben-Gurion University, and elsewhere.
He knows 15 languages, 13 of them self-taught. They range from modern Italian and Dutch to Akkadian and Hellenistic-era Greek. He is an avid enthusiast of the invented language of Esperanto.
And the Bible is not a new love. He was the Diaspora champion of Israel’s prestigious International Bible Contest as a teenager.
His Bible commentaries (the second volume will be published next week) are audacious and surprising. Yet, in his search for the earliest layer of the Biblical story, a layer he describes in the title of his first book as simply “The First Book of God,” he is actually a more sympathetic critic of the Biblical text than most of his colleagues.
There is nothing new about scholars pointing out differences in vocabulary or style, or contradictions in the Biblical narrative, to attempt to sift out one historical author from another. Indeed, such observations make up much of what has been taught about the Bible in the Western world’s universities for the past two centuries.
In the past, scholars have used such techniques to suggest the Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses, is actually composed of four distinct documents stitched together by a later editor. This is called the documentary hypothesis.
The Sacrifice of Isaac
22 After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. 5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy[a] will go over there and worship and come again to you.” 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
9 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”;[b] as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”[c]
15 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven 16 and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[d] enemies, 18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.” 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
I Am Saint Francis
Posted on April 5, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Above is a photograph of our cat who followed us to the park in Boston. I rescued Dottie Witherspoon from a Warlock. We come from real Patriots in South Carolina. I forgot the cat’s name, but she is looking at two dogs playing. In seconds she has run down the tree to join them. They love her, and the three are running around. I have a way with animals. So did Saint Francis.
Yesterday I saw my father sitting in a New York courtroom. Donald and Vic could pass for doubles. In 1994, my father was convicted of Loan Sharking. Here he is in downtown Oakland with his mother, who married a professional gambler. I am the opposite of Vic Presco who claimed I was not his son. He told my sisters this, and my aunt Lillian. To hear the charges against the Godfather of the Trump Empire, that included the hush money to a doorman to keep quiet about an alleged son, Trump sired, puts God’s Seal on the powerful clues I have gotten, that….
I AM GOD’S SON
Starfish verses Heather
Posted on April 5, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
“The seized Lady M superyacht, owned by Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov, at the port in Imperia, Italy, on Monday, March 7, 2022.
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European governments that seized the yachts and villas of Russian oligarchs now face a more difficult question: What to do with them?
The sanctions against Russian oligarchs imposed by the European Union, the U.K., the U.S. and other countries unleashed a wave of asset freezes across Europe. Officials impounded a 213-foot yacht owned by Alexei Mordashov in Imperia, Italy, Igor Sechin’s 280-foot yacht in the French port of La Ciotat and Alisher Usmanov’s $18 million resort compound in Sardinia.”
Never in the annals of literature has an author created a fictional character that in theory is the cause of World War Three, and the New Cold War Nuclear Threats. I turned Miriam Starfish Christling into a Christian Lesbian after seeing a video of Putin’s Cossacks, whipping members of Pussy Riot, and throwing their guitars in the trash. For a week I studied LGBTs and the Church. Two years ago I made a crucial decission. I had informed Broccoli I was authoring a James Bond book, as required. I might realize financial success – alas! Perhaps my daughter would respect me, show me real love – if I had money? Alas, after two years of therapy, I am ready to talk about Heather Hanson, who without a doubt is the most Ruthless Woman I ever met. At sixteen she had a choice, to contact her father, or, go to the reopening of the Rosamond Gallery, and meet Stacey Pierrot, and her hired ghost writer, Tom Snyder. She chose to go around me in her ambition to be a famous Country Western Singer. Heather, her mother, aunt, and uncle – did not give a shit about art – or me! I was – in their way.
A top general wants to send more troops to Europe to defend NATO Nations against the Holy War launched against Starfish, the Face That Launched a Thousand Ships. Never before in the history of Greek Literature, and Western Propaganda, has a Mortal Enemy been do vilified, as Starfish. Christian Churches have – demonized Starfish – even though they never applied a name to her until I did. Some of the wealthiest men in the world are in tears after their TOYS, their super yacht were confiscated. Here is the Ghost Ships Victoria Rosemond Bond dreamt about before Starfish came into her life.
Starfish was torn down the middle. Her father revised the ancient cosmology of Purun, and her mother was a Born Again Jesus Freak that lived at The Lighthouse Ranch after running away. They both subscribed to the Roza Mira Prophecy.
John Presco
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Starfish Takes A Wife
Posted on December 18, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Gold Digger and ‘The Toy’
Posted on July 23, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Capturing Beauty
by
John Presco
Copyright 2020
Patrice Hanson and Bogus Bobby looked for a way to exploit the child I did not know I had. David could attest to this.
I try to apply the fact Patrice is still a Stage Mother that has a sick relationship with my daughter that involves esteeming Heather all the time – for a Good Feeling Fee! Heather has had several surrogate fathers who were bid to worship my daughter – I did not know I had. When I did not fall in step with the Fake Fathers, Heather got confused. Why wasn’t I feeding her female ego and vanity? Why wasn’t I promoting her Country Western Singer Career? She didn’t have one. And, Pierrot was not going to get her her big break. She did not even make her book. She would have a big role in my autobiography, but she and her mother sank it to the bottom of the abyss. Now, ten years later she has Flip in her corner. Linda bought him some sound equipment and he wants to make money producing records. Then – he drops dead of acute alcoholism.
Heather had signed a legal document and became my Trustee. But after Flip’s good friend called me a “parasite” and Patrice’s daughter agreed – I had to get out for my sanity. I might go back to drinking. Not once did Patrice’s daughter call me and ask how my radiation treatment for prostate cancer was going. My attorney bid me to get rid of her – and even sue her! She sent me this, proof Patrice still wants to be in control of the Rosamond legacy. I suspect they got their book in the works.
E-mail from Heather Hanson:
I will agree to that if you agree to the following.
a. You will sign a notarized letter stating you will not defame me or anyone I am close to on the Internet or any other form of media. This includes me, Bill, Linda, Flip, my mom, Matt and Katie and Tyler (Internet defamation is illegal and I will not tolerate it)
b. You will remove anything you have published in which you have negated me and others in my life.
c. You apologize for all the horrible things you have said.
d. You get help for what ever condition you have that causes you to be so paranoid, irrational, and abusive.
I trusted you to be in my life. Let you know everything about me and those I am close to and some how, when you get angry, you find a way to twist information and make everyone out to be sick, evil, and abusive. That is not my reality and never has been.
Heather and Patrice have no empathy for Christine – or me! WE could have had a wonderful and miraculous story out in 2001, but, Patrice felt threatened. Instead, we got a book that demonizes a world famous artist and her parents. Is it just fine to say terrible things about a famous person, and not un-famous people? The Hansons have had a big problem for thirty-six years, they are not famous, never will be famous, yet a child of a famous family was born unto them. Being a blessing – was not good enough – for Patrice’s daughter.
“Please raise your glass of Coors Light in remembrance.”
Capturing Beauty
Chapter One
The Gold Digger and ‘The Toy’
No father wants to find evidence his daughter deceived him, withheld vital information from him, and manipulated him with the help of hidden people behind the scenes, people the father does not know.
Three hours ago I found the name of Linda Comstock’s ex-husband. He owned a bank and was a corporate lawyer. He had many wealthy Democratic friends that he partied with – till he dropped. His obituary says he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, but, when I checked, I could not find Tom’s name.
When my seventeen year old daughter was disappeared from my life in 2000, I wondered if Thomas A. Comstock Jr. knew about this kidnapping. I wondered if he suggested Heather Hanson get with the money people, and away from ‘The Loser’. I was everything…
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