Video Title: Margaret Barker - "Restoring Solomon's Temple." Source: Academy for Temple Studies. Date Published: January 5, 2013. Description:
Margaret Barker speaks on "Restoring Solomon's Temple" at the conference "Mormonism and the Temple: Exploring an Ancient Religious Tradition," on October 29, 2012, at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
It means nothing to ascertain the reasons for war, especially when those that are supplied to the public change by the day to reflect a contrived public consensus.
Modern wars are fought by Western governments, we are told, for "democracy" "human rights" "counter-terrorism" and even "gay rights," as Trump claimed the other day.
The last one seems the most plausible because our governments are filled with gay pedos who have a constant hard-on for war and destruction.
But those reasons have to be pushed aside in any analysis of modern wars. We have to examine the consequences. We have to begin at the end. Forget the casus belli.
The consequences of WWI and WWII were the total destruction of European empires, the settlement of Palestine by European Jews, and the political subjugation of much of Europe. And those were also the aims.
Honour and patriotism made soldiers of every nation march to the frontlines to fight, but their heroism was cynically exploited for the betterment of an occult elite who saw their sacrifice as a blood offering to their ancient gods.
Christian kings and European armies were the targets in 1914 with the "war to end to all wars," specifically Germany and Russia.
A generation later, America and the Allies didn't liberate Europe in the Second World War, they carved it up with the Soviets.
Hitler did not want to fight a war with the British Empire and America. It took years of cartoonish propaganda and high-level espionage to get Americans on board to support the war with any sort of enthusiasm. The non-stop fearmongering and vilification of Nazi Germany eventually worked.
With old Europe dusted and buried, the epicenter of global power shifted to Washington. America's ascendance to world power status would not have been possible without the dead bodies of millions of Europeans and the loans provided by Jewish bankers.
And the bill is coming due.
As with everything in history, war will decide how that bill will be paid and by whom.
The transnational criminals in control of America only understand force and respect power. Exercising restraint with them does no good. Making peace is a fool's errand. That's why the war in the Middle East must go on. The Yemenis are right. Make it a major world war. Let the God of War decide. Let there be rivers of blood. Let all these capitals be reduced to rubble.
Sometimes nations need to lose wars and suffer humiliation in order to reorient themselves towards the future with greater clarity and purpose.
Where would China be without its century of humiliation? Not nearly as strong and powerful as it is today.
America needs to eat some humble pie. It will do it good. As for Israel, they need to eat dirt for a little while and learn to join the human race. They can try again to establish a state in the future after taking a few courses in morality and the laws of war.
Or they can continue to initiate criminal wars and drag the whole world down with them. That's their choice.
But they must know by now that only China will be the sole victor of their collective stupidity and societal narcissism.
Israel, America, Europe, the Arab monarchies, the Western lackeys like Pakistan, Japan, and India, and Iran will all be classified as the losers of this war.
Iran is changing the world order, no doubt, but not without sacrificing itself in the process. I don't see any clear winner emerging from this war other than China.
China doesn't suffer fools. America does. That's why China is winning without even sacrificing its blood and treasure.
I advise the American military to throw out the Jews from their government as quickly as possible, settle their debts with the world, fix their country, and rebuild their armed forces.
Do not push this bill into the future.
It's time to pay up.
"Can one imagine that The Bomb could ever be used "in a good cause"? Do not such means instantly, of themselves, corrupt any cause?" - Dwight Macdonald.
An excerpt from, "The Long Journey Toward A WMD-Free Middle East" by Patricia Lewis and William C. Potter, Arms Control Association:
Probably the most significant driver for the WMD-free zone in the Middle East is the growing awareness that a conflict in the region could involve the use of nuclear weapons. Although not a new consideration, it has gained increased currency due to nuclear brinkmanship by Iran, the perception that Israel’s powerful allies accept its nuclear weapons as a permanent feature of the Middle Eastern terrain, increased interest in and access to civil nuclear technology by other states in the region, and occasional, veiled threats by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states that should Iran develop nuclear weapons, it would not long remain the only nuclear weapons newcomer to the region. These developments may not in themselves represent the preconditions for negotiation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone, but they should prompt a radical rethinking of nuclear policy in the Middle East.
Wikipedia - Yeshayahu Leibowitz:
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath. He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an editor of Encyclopaedia Hebraica, comprehensive encyclopedia in the Hebrew language. he was known for his outspoken views on politics, religion and Jewish philosophy.
. . .In 1956, Leibowitz wrote an article in Haaretz following the initial failure of the authorities to punish the perpetrators of the Kafr Qasim massacre, commenting with sharp irony that, in the name of the justice Israel claims to uphold, one might as well call for the Nuremberg laws to be overturned and the convicted Nazi officials to be exonerated, since they too had only followed orders from their superiors.
In 1966, Leibowitz harshly criticized David Ben-Gurion, claiming that, “he ruled his party and the political life in Israel with total control”. He portrayed Ben-Gurion as deceitful and expansionist. He wrote that although Ben-Gurion publicly stated in the Knesset that he opposed a preemptive war against Egypt, he secretly worked to plan one and later declared an expansion of Israel’s borders, referring to it as “The Third Kingdom of Israel,” extending as far as the island of Tiran. Moreover, he was critical of the nuclear project started during Ben-Gurion’s premiership, saying that it had been established “without the knowledge of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee." He wrote that Ben-Gurion and his aides sought to conceal the issue from the Israeli public by suppressing press coverage. Earlier, in 1960, Leibowitz had led the Committee for Denuclearization of the Middle East, alongside the politician Eliezer Livneh.
In an interview with Ma'ariv in January of the following year, following controversy surrounding his claims, Leibowitz said: “I think that [Ben-Gurion] is the biggest catastrophe that ever happened to the Jewish people and the State of Israel.” Ben-Gurion was furious but pretended not to care.
Leibowitz became harshly critical of Israeli policies following the 1982 Lebanon War. He repeatedly called for Israelis to refuse to serve in the occupied territories, and warned that Israel was turning its soldiers into "Judeo-Nazis", writing that if "the law ... can allow the use of torture as a way of getting confessions out of prisoners, then this testifies to a Nazi mentality." He supported a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories.
Video Title: Yeshayahu Leibowitz - There are Judeo-Nazis. Source: Yeshayahu Leibowitz Tribute Page. Date Published: September 3, 2017.
Peter Schäfer (born 29 June 1943, Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a prolific German scholar of ancient religious studies, who has made contributions to the field of ancient Judaism and early Christianity through monographs, co-edited volumes, numerous articles, and his trademark synoptic editions. He was a Professor of Religion and the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies at Princeton University from 1998 to 2013.
. . .From 1983 to 2008 he was Professor for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1993, he has been co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly. Schäfer's research interests include Jewish history in late antiquity, the religion and literature of Rabbinic Judaism, Jewish mysticism, 19th- and 20th-century Wissenschaft des Judentums and Jewish magic. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He won the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in December 2006. In 2014 he was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize by the Protestant Faculty of the University of Tübingen, and in 2021 the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts.
. . .Schäfer became a target for anti-BDS activists when Berlin's Jewish Museum presented an exhibition "Welcome to Jerusalem", which included a Muslim narrative as part of its depiction of Jerusalem. The criticism reached a peak when the museum's spokesperson issued a tweet critical of a May 2019 Bundestag resolution that said the BDS movement had an anti-semitic character. Schäfer resigned as director of the museum in June 2019 to protect it from further attacks. Regarding the criticism, he said: "The accusation of antisemitism is a club that allows one to deal a very rapid death blow, and political elements who have an interest in this used and are using it, without a doubt".
Contrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism’s relationship with Christianity in an entirely different light.
Drawing on an in-depth analysis of ancient sources that have received little attention until now, Peter Schäfer demonstrates how the Jews of the pre-Christian Second Temple period had various names for a second heavenly power—such as Son of Man, Son of the Most High, and Firstborn before All Creation. He traces the development of the concept from the Son of Man vision in the biblical book of Daniel to the Qumran literature, the Ethiopic book of Enoch, and the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. After the destruction of the Second Temple, the picture changes drastically. While the early Christians of the New Testament took up the idea and developed it further, their Jewish contemporaries were divided. Most rejected the second god, but some—particularly the Jews of Babylonia and the writers of early Jewish mysticism—revived the ancient Jewish notion of two gods in heaven.
Describing how early Christianity and certain strands of rabbinic Judaism competed for ownership of a second god to the creator, this boldly argued and elegantly written book radically transforms our understanding of Judeo-Christian monotheism.
Video Title: Peter Schäfer "Jewish Responses to the Emergence of Christianity. " Source: CISMOR2. Date Published: March 15, 2012.
Margaret Barker (born 1944) is a British Methodist preacher and biblical scholar. She studied theology at the University of Cambridge, after which she has devoted her life to research in ancient Christianity. She has developed an approach to biblical studies known as Temple Theology.
She was president of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1998, and in July 2008 she was awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
. . .Temple Theology is an approach to biblical studies developed by Margaret Barker in her books starting from The Great High Priest (2003) and Temple Theology (2004). This approach identifies some elements of the theology and worship of Solomon's Temple that endured beyond Josiah's reform and survived in both early Christian theology and liturgy and in gnosticism. According to this view Temple Theology has been influential in moulding the roots of Christianity as well as, or even more than, Hellenistic or synagogue culture.
. . . Margaret Barker's work has been received positively within the Latter-day Saint tradition. However, it has been regarded as fanciful and unpersuasive to some New Testament scholars. Specifically, some scholars believe Barker engages in parallelomania. Barker's later work has been critiqued for primarily citing her own work, and failing to substantially engage with the broader scholarly literature covering the topics on which she writes. However the same critic also points to original elements of her work which deserve further study and appreciation.Writes Peter Schäfer of Princeton: "For a Judaism scholar [Schäfer] focused on religious history, [Barker's] books are particularly hard to digest. They contain numerous surprising as well as brilliant insights, but all in all create a new syncretistic religion that avoids any and all chronological, geographic, and literary differentiations." Notable supporters of Barker's work include Robert M. Price.
Video Title: What is Temple Mysticism? | Dr. Margaret Barker. Source: History Valley. Date Published: September 26, 2023. Description:
According to Margaret Barker, temple mysticism underpins much of the Bible. Rooted in the cult of the first temple in ancient Judaism, it helps us to understand the origins of Christianity. Barker first examines biblical Isaiah, the prophet whom Jesus quoted more than any other in Scripture, and John, and then non-biblical texts.
