Whose History is it?

At the Trengganu River mouth in Seberang Takir

 Took a trip to Kuala Terenggnau with one of my nephews and his family, i was the designated driver. Met up with my old friends there and discussed about my migrating back there and what i can accomplish given the opportunity. I need a change of pace in my life, i need to relocate and seek out new inspirations and ideas for my creativity and work. I just need to remove myself from this too familiar an environment that is now slowly becoming a unproductive place for me to be. I also feel like the need to take up new challenges that would draw upon my instincts and inner audacity that thus far has been laid to rest due to much inactivity. I need to get away from this false comfort zone that i have come to take for granted and now it is taking me into La,la, land.
I am saying good byes to familiar faces and those whose welcome I have about worn out, my power to give has run thin and I am becoming just anotehr face in the crowd of inactive spirits. my study of Christianity has about come to and end after reading the historical origin of the Bible by Jaroslav Pelikan whose work has revealed much of what i have reservations about the religion which has always laid doubts in my mind as to its genuine origins. The Bible although is one of the Books of the Religion of Abraham, is too much ttempered with cut and edited to suit the Jewish claim towards being the chosen ones and to maintain a strangle hold over the rest of the Christian world via religion. The true teachings of Jesus is treated as a source of support towards the implementation of the Jewish State just as America is being made to serve the modern day Israel. I must admit that most Christians that i have come to know in my life are among the most kind and gentle people who have found the truth in the Bible and set about living their lives by the Book, however, most have little or no knowledge of the true history of the Bible and accept pretty much what history as written and deliberated by the orthodox Judaism.
The Bible was first translated into Greek in Alexandria, Egypt and  the result was  a body of wroks called the Septuagint.
"The inhabitants of Alexandria were divided into three districts: Egyptian, Greek and Jewish. Within the Jewish quarter (or third), which was increasingly Greek- speaking, the struggle to remain authentically Jewish and to, "sing a song of the Lord on alien soil" was combined with the need to explain and defend the faith to Gentile outsiders, who were also Greek- speaking...the external need to guarantee continuity of Jewish, worship, teaching and observance despite the continuing cultural and linguistic change, and the external need to formulate an apologetic for Judaism that would be addressed " to its cultured despisers,"...
                                           The origin of the Setuagint -  J. Pelikan
The Vulgate -
Eusebius Hieronymus or better known as Jerome later translated the Judeo-Chrisitan Bible to latin, the language of Renaissance Europe.
"Originally, Jerome continued the practice of his anonymous predecessors in basing his revision of the Latin translation of the Tanakh of the Greek text of the Septuagint, whicxh he knew to posses a high and authoritative standing (as it still does today) among the Greek speaking theologians and scholars in the eastern parts of what then was still the undivided church."
 Later many more translations were rendered of the Bible by reformers such as Martin Luther who translated it into German and the later King James version in English.

"The loss of the unifying force represented by language - and of the associated literature - was a major step towards assimilation and disappearance. In these circumstances, with contact with the one place where Jewish cultural life continued to prosper - Babylon - cut off by conflict with Persia, Jewish life in the Christian world of late antiquity was not simply a pale shadow of what it had been three or four centuries earlier. It was doomed."
The JC Essay

By David J Wasserstein, May 24, 2012

The ultimate question still dwells in the minds of humanity today as to why were the Jews and they still are, being persecuted by just about every nation on earth. What is it in their national characteristics or their individual traits that makes them to be hunted down and eliminated form the face of the earth as happened during the Pogroms in Russsia and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. It would be naive for man to deny that the Jews were innocent of any wrong doings and simply being treated as pariahs because they were Jews. The historical writings of the Judeo - Christian fail to dive deeper into this issue instead propagate Judaism to be the central focal point of the religions of the Book. The fact that Christ was haunted and tortured and later crucified by the Jews has all but acceptable as the will of the One true God for His own purposes: unknown, as God works in mysterious ways.

"Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion. And second, the coming of Islam saved them, providing a new context in which they not only survived, but flourished, laying foundations for subsequent Jewish cultural prosperity - also in Christendom - through the medieval period into the modern world."
The JC Essay

By David J Wasserstein, May 24, 2012

Why is Islam deemed to be very anti Semitic? Why are the Jews being abhorred by the Muslims to the point of no forgiveness?   "Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Jews lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier of Iran and beyond. Almost all the Jews in the world were now ruled by Islam. This new situation transformed Jewish existence. Their fortunes changed in legal, demographic, social, religious, political, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural terms - all for the better." The JC Essay
By David J Wasserstein, May 24, 2012

"Between the years 250 CE and 1948 CE - a period of 1,700 years - Jews have experienced more than eighty expulsions from various countries in Europe - an average of nearly one expulsion every twenty-one years. Jews were expelled from England, France, Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Bohemia, Moravia and seventy-one other countries.

Historians have classified six explanations as to why people hate the Jews:
Economic -- "We hate Jews because they possess too much wealth and power."
Chosen People -- "We hate Jews because they arrogantly claim that they are the chosen people."
Scapegoat -- "Jews are a convenient group to single out and blame for our troubles."
Deicide -- "We hate Jews because they killed Jesus."
Outsiders, -- "We hate Jews because they are different than us." (The dislike of the unlike.)
Racial Theory -- "We hate Jews because they are an inferior race."
Simple to Remember
Judaism Online.
Perhaps what the Quran has to say of the Jews will shed some light over this issue.

"And We did certainly give Moses the Torah and followed up after him with messengers. And We gave Jesus, the son of Mary, clear proofs and supported him with the Pure Spirit. But is it [not] that every time a messenger came to you, [O Children of Israel], with what your souls did not desire, you were arrogant? And a party [of messengers] you denied and another party you killed."
And when it is said to them, "Believe in what Allah has revealed," they say, "We believe [only] in what was revealed to us." And they disbelieve in what came after it, while it is the truth confirming that which is with them. Say, "Then why did you kill the prophets of Allah before, if you are [indeed] believers?"

The Jews say "The Christians have nothing [true] to stand on," and the Christians say, "The Jews have nothing to stand on," although they [both] recite the Scripture. Thus the polytheists speak the same as their words. But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that over which they used to differ.

Say, [O believers], "We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."

From Surah Al Baqarah.
 Hence I could pick out quotes upon quotes from the scriptures of all the three Book of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic faiths but it will be long tedious and boring to most. Suffice to say, look it up yourselves and come to your own enlightenment- read! Or remain blissfully ignorant. In order that i may come to understand the teachings of Jesus I will have to understand the origins of its texts and most of these texts originated from the Jewish tradition and scriptures. What was the truth and what was rewritten to alter the truth from being revealed of the relationship of the three religions is yet to be revealed. 'And the truth shall set you free' as Christ said.
I am not practicing anti Semitism as i have no call for it in any sense but i am sadly aware of the Jewish tragic existence as a race that is practically condemned by the rest of humanity  for one reason or another. Perhaps the only consolation i can come to accept as a believer is that God had chosen the right people to introduce his monotheistic religion to; an 'arrogant,shrewed, stubborn and self serving nation that questions every word He revealed, God had his run for the money with the Jews, just as the Prophet of Allah had with the pagan Arabs.