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Genesis of Genesis

How ancient is ancient astronomy? At what level have we played Lost & Found with the same information? Have we had that information in our homes all along? What’s the connection between China, Britain, Egypt, & Israel? You read some of the answer in “Grandpa Was A Deity” ... Now learn the rest. In 1892, Benjamin Bacon wrote of The Book of Genesis: "The minutest detail of numbers, statistics and measurements pervades all the history, and gives to the whole document the tone of a mathematical calculation." He was unable to explain the math. It has taken 120 years -- the life span of man – for someone to explain what Bacon observed. In 1994, A&E produced a show, "Mysteries of the Bible", in which, Brandeis University Professor of Biblical Studies, Marc Zvi Brettler, stated: "The ages of the Bible really are a mystery and really are quite perplexing if people were to take everything that is said in these stories literally." Termed “Secret Knowledge”, the meaning has been passed down through a family line descended from King David to the famed eleventh century Talmudic scholar, Shlomo Yitzhaki, known by the acronym title of “The Rashi.” Sixty years ago, P. R. Lipschitz, a Talmudic scholar and descendant of The Rashi, and, and believing he had a short time to live, followed family custom and passed the secret to his only male-line grandson. Not long thereafter, he was placed in a Jewish nursing home, where he shared a room with a well known NYC Rabbi, for the remainder of their lives, the two men engaged in Talmudic discussion, and debate; passing on within hours of each other. From that, a family joke emerged to explain the nearly simultaneous deaths: "the two Talmudic scholars having reached an impasse on a matter of law and decided to take the debate to a higher authority." As the author has no grandson to whom he could pass the knowledge, he has – for reasons made clear by his newest book, Saint Paul’s Joke – decided to make it public. By so doing, he establishes the truth of the first-century words of the Historia

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