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Summary of Book

The following conceptual diagram shows the relationship between the chronology of the known history in the foreground plane and the setting of the literary account in the Bible in the background plane. As further described in the book, the origins of the Bible can be traced to the Proto-Biblical source literature that was composed in the 7th century BC in the Kingdom of Judah by the Levite priests and scribes, most of whom, it is suggested, were descended from the Libyan-Egyptian priests from the House of Amun, who had immigrated from Egypt to Judah in about 725 BC, carrying with them the seeds of a new religion. The literary account in the Bible, shown in the Biblical Retrojection plane in the rear, was anchored firmly in the actual histories of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. These histories are represented by the solid lines in the Biblical Retrojection plane. The earlier biblical accounts, however, such as the United Monarchy, the tribal confederation of the Judges, the Conquest of Canaan, and the Exodus from Egypt, reflect a legendary past that was placed in a mythical setting that extended back into a 2nd millennium BC biblical timeframe, as represented by the dotted lines in the diagram.