2ª parte RELIGIÓN, ORIGEN y MITOS

In this second part, we delve into uncomfortable territory: the true origins of Judaism and the Hebrew Tanakh. Not the one recounted by dogmas, but the one revealed by history and texts when read without fear. From Egypt to Persia, from Akhenaten to Zoroaster, we will follow the trail of a faith that was not born at Sinai, but in the long shadow of empires. During the Babylonian exile, and under the influence of Zoroastrianism, Israelite theology was reworked and its god molded in the image of a new ideology. There, concepts germinated that would mark us for centuries: the struggle between good and evil, hierarchical angels, the great adversary Satan, a final judgment, resurrection, and messianic hope. None of this existed before. I propose to look beyond the sacred narrative and the pulpits that perpetuate it, to discover how ancient myths were transformed into divine laws and poetry became dogma. An invisible thread unites Egypt, Canaan, Babylon, and Persia in the creation of biblical monotheism—the most brilliant of human reinventions, and perhaps the greatest of sacred deceptions.