The People That History Forgot
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The People That History Forgot Extended Second Edition By Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D. Portland: ASK Publications,
The Associates for Scriptural Knowledge ISBN 0-945657-82-X (Extended Second Edition)
All quotes in this Research Study are from the King James
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Dr. Martin has taught history for 12 years at a college in England, been the Chairman of the Department of Theology at another in California, has supervised over 450 college students at the most significant archaeological excavation ever conducted in Jerusalem for two months each year for a period of five years (and his archeological educational program was featured in the Education section of Time magazine for September 1973).
He has written over a dozen major research books advertised internationally in archeological and biblical periodicals, and over 600 planetariums around the world show his astronomical and historical material at their December showings. He has written several hundred articles on biblical and historical matters and is also listed in the current editions of Who’s Who in Religion and Education, and Who’s Who in Biblical Studies and Archaeology.
Contents
Part One
Part Two
Forward
The first part of this book will show some modern archaeological discoveries that have caused amazement among scholars who study the history of early Judaism and Christianity. Indeed, the word "shock" would better describe the reaction of many historians, particularly those who are Jewish scholars. What has caused this "shock"? The historical research in this book will explain the reason. It will show what those surprising archaeological remains are and how their modern discovery actually reveals the existence of a people (presently unrecognized by scholars) who have mysteriously disappeared from the records of history about fourteen hundred years ago. In this book those people are re-discovered.
The second part of the book reveals other archaeological finds that impinge upon the interpretation of the discoveries mentioned in my first paragraph. They also affect the understanding of the early history of the Roman Empire, and consequently that of Judaism and early Christianity. This second group of discoveries involves the research of scholars in the first part of the 20th century who analyzed the remains of over 13,900 Latin inscriptions found primarily in Italy. The result of that survey profoundly altered the past understanding of the racial history of the period from before the time of Jesus to that of Constantine in the 4th century. But strangely, most historians today are not discussing the significance of this survey regarding those inscriptions (or they give no heed to the evidence) and consequently the general public knows little or nothing about the importance of these discoveries. But these archaeological remains are as significant in understanding early Judaism and Christianity, or more so, than even the Dead Sea Scrolls.
What this book does is to assemble together for the first time these important discoveries into a coherent narrative that will make sense to any interested reader. In a word, this book is designed to bring these amazing discoveries to the attention of the general public. For that reason I have not written in an academic style, but in a manner that the intelligent person from any walk of life can grasp. But the research is not exclusively for the general public. It is also designed to satisfy both professional historians and theologians in their quest to understand important historical events of the past. I believe the material in this book is essential for people to know if one hopes to realize some prime factors in the history of religion that have influenced the development of western civilization. The subject of this book is of utmost importance and these archaeological discoveries need to be made known to the public at large. This information can give scholars and all people a better comprehension of the history of early Judaism and Christianity, and a better understanding of the Roman Empire. Its central theme involves the rediscovery of The People That History Forgot.
"The path of the just is as the shining
light,
that shines more and more unto the perfect day."
This little book is dedicated to "Truth Seekers" everywhere.
Other books by Dr. Ernest L. Martin
Restoring the Original Bible
Secrets of Golgotha
The Star that Astonished the World
101 Bible Secrets Christians Do Not Know
ABC’s of the Gospel
The Tithing Dilemma
The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot
Prophetic Books of the Old Testament (forthcoming)
A.S.K. has FREE each month a newsletter called the ASK Communicator that keeps the general public knowledgeable of prophetic and doctrinal teachings that are up-to-date with contemporary information that people will find interesting and worthwhile in their biblical studies. It is available on our website:
www.askelm.com.The front cover illustration depicts the mysterious people who introduced the worship of the pagan gods into Christianity by the use of sidereal knowledge. The right hand of the leader gives the Sarapis (Zeus) blessing and in the left hand is their introduction of Sarapis to Christianity, which became the long-haired "Jesus." So, paganism supplanted Christianity.
The back cover shows the Sarapis blessing with the image of Sarapis
displayed in the palm of the right hand. The artifacts are building tools
showing the desire to create a new society. Some animals are "changeable" ones
depicting the change to the new society: the snake changes his skin, the
chameleon changes its color, and the tadpole changes into the frog. The tortoise
was an emblem of Mercury and Venus, and the Ibis (stork) was universally sacred
to Isis and indicates birth — the "new birth" of being like Sarapis. The scales
show that all judgment belongs to Sarapis the Judge of the dead. Sculpture shown
in G.J.F. Kater-Sibbes, Preliminary Catalogue of Sarapis Monuments (Leiden:
Brill, 1973), #1018, plate 32.
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