The Entire bible: old and New Testament occurred in Arabia Not the Middle East

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Here’s a thought-provoking perspective. What if we applied the same logic we use for other cultural movements to the Bible?

For example, we’d never confuse Tokyo, a city that masterfully adopted hip-hop, with the Bronx, where it originated. The origin point is defined by the creators, not the most prolific later adopters.

Applying that lens, a case can be made that the early Biblical heartland was in Arabia, not the Levant. The argument rests on a few key points:

1. Patrilineal DNA: If culture is tied to the founding fathers, then the core Semitic speakers (Arabs, Ethiopians) are linked to Haplogroup E, which is from NE Africa/Arabia.

The haplogroup common in the Levant (J1) actually branches from a lineage connected to Indo-Europeans. So, genetically, it’s possible a Shemite (E) culture was later led and adopted by a different (J1) group in the Levant.

2. The Bible’s Own Map: The text has Abraham “going down” to Egypt—which makes perfect sense if he’s traveling west from the Hijaz towards the Nile, but seems odd from the Levant. It also describes plants and animals common in Arabia but not in ancient Israel.

3. Re-interpreting the ‘Evidence’: The incredible findings in Israel/Jordan prove that’s where the Israelite kingdom flourished. But does that automatically mean it’s where the origin stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob took place? Or could those stories have traveled with a group and been mapped onto their new homeland?

This isn’t to say the mainstream view is stupid, but to suggest that the current evidence in the Levant might be proof of a highly successful adoption and centralization of the culture, not its literal point of genesis. It feels like the door to seriously investigating an Arabian origin has been closed not necessarily by a lack of evidence, but by a powerful academic consensus that’s hard to challenge.

Just some food for thought—what if we’re looking for the Bronx in all the wrong places, simply because Tokyo has the biggest record labels and concert halls today?”

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