“Sumerian Prophets”... the search for the truth
Al-Majidi is based on recently discovered archaeological fossils
The Cultural Center in Casablanca published a new book entitled “Sumerian Prophets: How did ten Sumerian kings turn into ten biblical prophets?” By Dr. Khazal Al-Majidi, a researcher specializing in the sciences and history of religions, civilizations, and myths. The book is divided into three sections, comprising a total of 17 chapters with a comprehensive introduction and supported by Arabic and foreign sources.
The researcher asserts in his introduction that “the purpose of this book is to search for the truth,” and there are no other motives, whether religious, political, or intellectual. The credit goes, as the author says, to archaeological excavations that changed our perceptions of the world as a whole, as it does not claim to encompass everything. Therefore, I left it to those concerned with history and thought to build their new perceptions on solid scientific foundations, away from the whims of imagination, and the delusions of beliefs stemming from ancient myths and myths.
Al-Majidi distinguishes between the terms Old Testament, Tanakh, and Torah, and calls for disentangling them when referring to the Hebrew Bible. He divides them into four sections: the Bible, the Old Testament, and the Tanakh, “which consists of the Sharia section, the Prophets section, and the literature section.” The Torah includes the five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. In addition to the holy books mentioned above, there are two types of Jewish books: “The Basic Jewish Books,” which includes seven types: “The Targum, the Mishnah, the Talmud, the Halacha, the Haggadah, the Kabbalah, and the Midrash.” The “secondary Jewish books” include the Apogrypha, the Sedigraphia, the Books of Qumran, and lost books such as “The Book of Jasher” and “The Wars of the Lord.”
The researcher relies on the record of the Sumerian kings to prove to us that the ten Sumerian kings were transformed into ten biblical prophets as a result of the biblical vision. These kings or fathers are: “Adam, Seth, Enosh, Cainan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch (Idris), Methuselah, Lamech, Noah,” who all belong to the stage before the flood.
Al-Majidi expands a lot in discussing the myth of creation, and we will try to shorten it as much as possible so that the thread of the main theme of the book does not escape us. God created the world in six days, then rested on the seventh day. There are multiple myths in the theory of creation that differ according to religions, civilizations, and peoples.
God created Adam on the sixth day, formed him from dust, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Then he created Eve, but the serpent tempted them, so they ate from the Tree of Knowledge, so God punished all three of them: Adam, Eve, and the serpent, by expelling them from Paradise because they broke His commandment and ate the forbidden fruit. Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel, and the first became a farmer and the second a shepherd. Then they competed to marry their sister, “Abel,” which prompted Cain to kill Abel, and God expelled him to a deserted desert place east of Eden called “Nod,” so that he and his descendants could reside in that barren wilderness. Eve gives birth to Seth, which means “the substitute,” with which she compensated for the death of Abel. Muslims and Mandaeans believe in the prophecy of Seth because God sent down 50 revelations to him, and he was also the author of the first war that took place on earth between him and his brother “Cain,” as he is called in the Islamic narrative. Prophet Seth is considered the first to speak wisdom, and the first to extract minerals, and among his most notable achievements is organizing irrigation and building dams. As for the third king, he was Enosh, who received the prophetic vision and became a prophet. While King Cainan was distinguished by his wisdom, he attained it early in his life. He taught people and passed on his knowledge and sciences to them. The fifth father, Mahalalel, is credited with founding the cities of Babylon and Susa, fighting the army of Satan, and being the first to cut down trees. The documents did not record anything about Father VI Jared, whose name literally means “he will lose his position or fall,” and he may have been preoccupied with maintaining his throne. As for the seventh father, he is Enoch, or the Prophet Idris among Muslims, and his counterpart in the Sumerian and Mesopotamian heritage is Hermes, who taught people the laws of civilization and invented writing. Idris did not die, but rather ascended to heaven and turned into an archangel named Metatron. Al-Majidi concluded that the roots of the character of Enoch are Sumerian and his origin is “Aenemen-dor-anna”, king of the city of Spar, that is, one of the pre-Flood kings. The eighth king, Methuselah, is distinguished by his combination of wisdom and royalty. He is the man of the arrow and the owner of the fast jump. His counterpart from the Sumerian kings is Ubar-Tutu, from the city of Shuruppak. One of his most notable achievements is his fight against the famine that occurred in his era. As for Lamech, the ninth king, he is described as the first to have multiple wives when he married two women. He is the author of the oldest poetic poem, and he addressed it to his two wives. Shuruppak corresponds to it in Sumerian, which means “place of healing.” The commandments of Shuruppak are associated with this king, and these commandments are considered the first literary text in history. It is a Sumerian text written around 2600 BC. M. Shurabak will give birth to a son named Zeu Sidra, who is the hero of the Sumerian flood called “Sumerian Noah.” Moses’ noes were greatly influenced by Shurabak’s commandments to the point of almost being identical. As for the tenth and last king, Noah lived for 950 years and died 350 years after the flood and was buried on Mount Ararat. Its distinctive sign is Noah's Ark, and its most important achievement is saving the human race and other living things from the flood.
Al-Majidi believes that the English Assyriologist George Smith opened the door wide when he discovered in the eleventh tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh the Mesopotamian origin of the story of Noah’s Hebrew flood. He made the first comparison between the origin of the flood story and one of its branches that was retold in the Old Testament. In fact, the idea of the flood among peoples Certain ones are taken from the Sumerian original with slight variations. Al-Majidi dates the idea of the Seven Wise Men back to the Sumerian era, and they were mentioned in the “Epic of Gilgamesh.”
The researcher believes that there were five Sumerian cities that flourished before the flood: Eridu, Badtpera, Larak, Spar, and Shurabak. As for the Garden of Eden, it is the city of Eridu itself, while Nod is located just east of it. When the flood occurred, it left no trace of these cities. It must be taken into account that the flood included southern Iraq only, and that it was the imagination of the peoples that made it cover the entire world, and that Noah’s Ark was exceeding its size and the number of people and living creatures that entered its interior. Al-Majidi believes that its shape is round in the form of the “cuft” that is used In the rivers of central and southern Iraq. The researcher also stops at the Nasoraites who created the Mandaean religion, but their ignorance of the language was what caused the loss of the bulk of their knowledge and they were not able to write it down because writing was invented in the time of the Prophet Idris in the year 3200 BC. The book “Sumerian Prophets” puts things back in perspective and refutes the misleading biblical theories that lived on the enlightened Sumerian thought.
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