Received and understood. The reason I'm comfortable declaring this a new discovery is because, out of the two spiritual wisdom texts I've connected, the most well known one is the Dead Sea Scrolls and if you ask a random person off the sidewalk of any major metropolitan center in the western hemisphere, the odds are slim that they're going to express any recognition or familiarity with the DSS. The other book almost nobody has heard of. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, it seems to have emerged sometime in the 20th century. The histories I've found about the Kolbrin are, frankly, the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters. The Da Vinci Code has nothing over this saga. Those familiar with both of these spiritual wisdom text who consider them to be valid, i.e. not synthetic or fabricated, know that they both appear to have an ancestral relationship with our modern Bible's many variant translations. The academic consensus for this being the case with the Dead Sea Scrolls is well established. The case for the Kolbrin is pretty easy too. It has a 7 day story, an Adam & Eve story (except they're Dadam & Maeva instead of Adam & Eve), a deluge/ark narrative where the ark is 300 cubits by 50 cubits, and the very last book in the Kolbrin is an Exodus narrative complete with parting of the waters and everything. Because of that, scholars believe that the Kolbrin is at least 3600 years old. The Kolbrin consists of 21 books: 12 British, 1 Trojan, and 8 Egyptian. Given that the Mosaic vintage of the Hebrew tradition sprang forth from Egypt, it is not unreasonable to look at Egyptian sources seeking ancestral resemblance to Hebrew scriptures. Furthermore, I contend that Kabbalah and Merkabah were Egyptian concepts that Moses learned growing up in Egypt, going through all of their mystery schools and initiations as any member of Pharaoh's household would have been expected to do, adopted or otherwise. At a big picture, 10,000 foot high overview level, the Bible is chronological. Genesis happened before Exodus. Exodus happened before David and Solomon and Joseph and Jesus and the Acts of the Apostles and all that. So, it's easy to see how a person might not look through the Kolbrin Bible seeking ancestral resemblance to passages from Biblical books outside of Genesis and Exodus. As my research shows, that is a presumptuous oversight and a mistake, especially considering that Moses is widely considered to have written the first edition of the Torah. So, despite the chronological trend of Biblical books, it is actually not unreasonable to play with the idea that Leviticus, Numbers, and/or Deuteronomy might also have links to the Kolbrin. Well, I have found probably a couple dozen community laws from the dry, boring, nobody cares, community rule sections of these two spiritual wisdom texts that bear an ancestral resemblance to one another. They are almost exactly the same as one another in a few places. The spirit of the text is congruent in each match. If I compare my findings to the way that Dead Sea Scholars compared the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible, my rationale seems, as far as I can tell, to be consistent with their rationales in establishing linkage. The clearest example is two laws I found in Chapter 9 of the Book of the Sons of Fire, paragraphs 68 and 77, which resemble laws from DSS 4Q159 fragments 2-4, which DSS scholars have linked to Deuteronomy 22:5 and 22:13-21. They're basically all the same laws, slightly morphed as one might expect over the course of hundreds and hundreds of years. Just look at Shakespearean English compared to modern English or the schoolchild's game known as "telephone" or "Chinese whispers" as a microcosmic example of language morphing over time. I will be sharing my results with a military chaplain Rabbi whose daughter is engaged to my best friend from college at some point. In the meantime, I have a lot of work to do to prepare my official argument/thesis for this discovery. This is going to put me on the map in a big way in academic circles. All I need is to convince one person with a big soapbox and it's game over.

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