According to some biblical scholars and historians, Rabbi Akiba’s scribes altered the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures, which people refer to as the Tanakh. Akiba violated God’s word in the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Flavius Josephus, and other ancient chronologists show that Akiba’s scribes shortened the history in the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures by almost 2,000 years. Akiba and his scribes erased this history to establish their doctrine that Yeshua (Jesus) was never the prophesied Messiah of Israel and humankind.
Archaeologists discovered the Dead Sea scrolls in several places, including the area around the Dead Sea. These scrolls represent the Old Testament, also known as the Tanakh in Hebrew. The Tanakh, or Old Testament originated from the inspiration of God. Similar to how English is today, Greek was the most widely used language in the eastern Mediterranean starting in 330 BCE. Most people learned Greek along with their local language as they grew up, and it was still widely spoken some 500 years later, beginning in 323 BCE.
Ptolemy, a commander under Alexander, controlled Egypt. They ruled over Judea, which included Jerusalem as the capital, and their capital was Alexandria. Ptolemy the First established Alexandria’s grand library in 295 BCE. His son Ptolemy II requested the assistance of multilingual scholars who could translate the Old Testament from ancient Hebrew into Greek in 282 BCE to the temple high priest in Jerusalem. He was gathering all the best books he could discover for this significant library, which served not just the numerous Greek-speaking Jews and other people in the Empire.
According to tradition, 70 scholars were selected and they went to Egypt. The Septuagint, which translates from ancient or paleo Hebrew to Greek as “seventy,” is also known as the LXX today. People refer to any Greek-to-Hebrew translation as a Septuagint, but this particular ancient text is known as the ALEXANDRIAN SEPTUAGINT. By 280 BCE Scribes translated the five books of Moses, known as the Torah, and the whole Tanakh, or Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures, was finished by 250 BCE, according to historical evidence from seven extremely early sources. Scribes gave copies to Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt, Judea, and other parts of the globe to study and debate the Hebrew Scriptures. Synagogues and other places for prayer and Bible study were born as a result of this development.
Philo says Alexandria’s first synagogues began around 262 BCE after the Torah was translated. Synagogues originated in Syria in Egypt in 246 BCE and Delos in the Aegean around 240 BCE, according to inscriptions. By the time of Jesus, synagogues were omnipresent thanks to the LXX or Septuagint. Jews considered the LXX the Greek Word of God. Paul and other New Testament authors quoted from that Greek version. Julius Caesar was embroiled in the Egyptian civil war in 48 BCE, and his fleet of ships at Alexandria Harbor was set on fire, along with storehouses, granaries, the library, and numerous scrolls. They also destroyed the museum. After partial reconstruction, a succession of lightening events and flames devastated the structure in 391 CE, leaving little ruins.
The Romans demolished the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. The Roman authorities were weary of Jewish uprisings. Interestingly, Middle Eastern Roman soldiers completed the task. Rome destroyed the Jewish temple by Titus led armies from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. The temple’s foundational copy of the Tanakh, or Old Testament, the Romans burned and they stole the seven-branch menorah as their trophy. Before this event, scribes used the written ancient Hebrew to make copies of the Old Testament before 70 CE.
This sect thought Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah or Christ and would return. Jewish Scriptures supported these views. Gentile Christians were growing quickly. The burning of the Scriptures and the emergence of Christianity about 100 CE when Rabbi Akiba made a new foundational copy of the Jewish Scriptures are essential. Although considered a copy, he accomplished this with many assistance. This new fundamental scripture was different from the original before 70 CE. Many of our English Old Testament Scriptures are based on Akiba’s Masoretic text.
After the 48 BCE library fire and the 70 CE temple Scrolls destruction, Rabbi Akiba saw his opportunity to construct a new master copy according to rabbinical tradition. After Aquila released a Greek copy of the Masoretic texts in 128 CE, this Mesolithic manuscript and its new Hebrew character appeared about 100 CE. This Greek copy of the Masoretic is termed a Septuagint, unlike the Alexandrian. Siegfried H. Horn noted that by 130 CE, Akiba’s crew had destroyed all Old Testament manuscripts save the Masoretic and its Greek equivalent. Some ancient Hebrew and LXX writings from the Dead Sea Scrolls in Quang Ninh caverns were concealed before 70 CE and survived. Except for Nahal Hever, the other four Dead Sea Scrolls locations hold copies of Aqaba and Aquila’s new Hebrew and Greek manuscripts from after 100 CE. Christian organizations possessed the Alexandrian Septuagint about 367 CE. The Alexandrian Church had Thekla, a careful scribe, transcribe the LXX from the scrolls. This preserved it for bible readers today and fits the New Testament and Dead Sea scroll quotations, proving this was their reference text.
Alexandrian Septuagints are printed. Brenton translated it, and the footnotes show Alexandrian where the alternative text varies. However, Akiba’s Masoretic text is the foundation for practically all English Old Testament Scriptures, including the King James the New (KJV), New King James Version (NKJV), International Version (NIV), English Standard Version (ESV), and other updated English bibles. Rabbi Akiba and his scribes removed 1,800 years from the Hebrew Scriptures in the first and second century CE. This author believes that future research will show that the Akiba’s scribes eliminated 2,000 years of history from the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures. Over a century, experts like Velikovsky have debated biblical and Egyptian chronologies. Akiba cut 1300 years of Earth history by removing the correct ages of the males in Genesis 5 and 11 at the birth of their son. There are still roughly 500 years of dispute, which is attributed to rabbinical traditions and Jewish religious leaders not recognizing the years when Israel served their enemies. When all 1,800 years are returned back to the Hebrew Scriptures, Egyptian, Sumerian, and other Mesopotamian chronologies match the Holy Bible.
Despite these chronological changes, Christians may trust the Old Testament. God never modified His Holy Scriptures’ primary message. God promised a Savior, Messiah, and Redeemer who would die and rise again to save humankind from their sins. Messiah’s blood sacrifice reconciled humankind to God. Ak
Analysis
If nearly 2,000 years of history are missing from the Hebrew Scriptures, then the original creation of Adam and Eve or first humans occurred around 6,000 BCE. This also means the first human pre-flood civilization began around 5,600 BCE, the great flood was around 4,000 BCE, and early post-flood civilization happened around 3, 600 BCE. The time of Abraham began around 2,000 BCE. Much of the diversity observed in plants, animals, and humankind occurred between 4, 000 and 2,000 BCE. The Alexandrian Septuagint (250 BCE), the Dead Sea Scrolls (200 BCE), and the writings of Flavius Josephus (1,00 CE) concur more with 6,000 years of human history before the first coming of Yeshua the Messiah. Bear in mind, the likely changes that Rabbi Akiba and his scribes made to the original paleo Hebrew Scriptures were wrong. However, this wrong does not give believers the right to hate the Jewish community. Anti-Jewishness is against God and humankind. Genesis 12:3 presents a clear warning to all anti-Semites and anti-Jewish bigots who use history and the bible to justify their hate.