Voltaire dan Aristoteles pernah bilang, Abraham asalnya dari India
Voltaire, filsuf asal Perancis pernah menuliskan bahwa sosok Abraham
sebetulnya berasal dari India, bukan dari Timur Tengah atau Jazirah Arab.
Jauh di masa sebelumnya, Aristoteles, filsuf Yunani berucap: These Jews are
derived from the Indian philosophers; they are named by the Indians Calani,
seperti pernah ditulis oleh
Flavius Josephus. Pemikiran ini juga didukung oleh Clearchus dalam
bukunya.
Paper karya Gene D. berikut ini juga menyinggung soal itu:
..The word Abraham is none other than a malpronunciation of
the word Brahma
Jadi, apakah sejarah agama-agama karya kaum Semit perlu dirombak
total?
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Who Was ABRAHAM?
A paper by Gene D. Matlock, B.A., M.A.
http://www.viewzone.com/abraham.html
In his History of the Jews, the Jewish scholar and theologian Flavius
Josephus (37 - 100 A.D.), wrote that the Greek philosopher Aristotle
had said: ...These Jews are derived from the Indian philosophers;
they are named by the Indians Calani. (Book I:22.)
Clearchus of Soli wrote, The Jews descend from the philosophers of
India. The philosophers are called in India Calanians and in Syria
Jews. The name of their capital is very difficult to pronounce. It is
called 'Jerusalem.'
Megasthenes, who was sent to India by Seleucus Nicator, about three
hundred years before Christ, and whose accounts from new inquiries
are every day acquiring additional credit, says that the Jews 'were
an Indian tribe or sect called Kalani...' (Anacalypsis, by Godfrey
Higgins, Vol. I; p. 400.)
Martin Haug, Ph.D., wrote in The Sacred Language, Writings, and
Religions of the Parsis, The Magi are said to have called their
religion Kesh-î-Ibrahim. They traced their religious books to Abraham,
who was believed to have brought them from heaven. (p. 16.)
There are certain striking similarities between the Hindu god Brahma
and his consort Saraisvati, and the Jewish Abraham and Sarai, that are
more than mere coincidences. Although in all of India there is only
one temple dedicated to Brahma, this cult is the third largest Hindu
sect.
In his book Moisés y los Extraterrestres, Mexican author Tomás
Doreste states, Voltaire was of the opinion that Abraham descended from some of
the
numerous Brahman priests who left India to spread their teachings
throughout the world; and in support of his thesis he presented the
following elements: the similarity of names and the fact that the city
of Ur, land of the patriarchs, was near the border of Persia, the
road to India, where that Brahman had been born.
The name of Brahma was highly respected in India, and his influence
spread throughout Persia as far as the lands bathed by the rivers
Euphrates and Tigris. The Persians adopted Brahma and made him their
own. Later they would say that the God arrived from Bactria, a
mountainous region situated midway on the road to India. (pp. 46-47.)
Bactria (a region of ancient Afghanistan) was the locality of a
prototypical Jewish nation called Juhuda or Jaguda, also called
Ur-Jaguda. Ur meant place or town. Therefore, the bible was correct
in stating that Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldeans. Chaldean,
more correctly Kaul-Deva (Holy Kauls), was not the name of a specific
ethnicity but the title of an ancient Hindu Brahmanical priestly caste
who lived in what are now Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Indian state
of Kashmir.
The tribe of Ioud or the Brahmin Abraham, was expelled from or left
the Maturea of the kingdom of Oude in India and, settling in Goshen,
or the house of the Sun or Heliopolis in Egypt, gave it the name of
the place which they had left in India, Maturea.
(Anacalypsis; Vol. I, p. 405.)
He was of the religion or sect of Persia, and of Melchizedek.
(Vol. I, p. 364.)
The Persians also claim Ibrahim, i.e. Abraham, for their founder, as
well as the Jews. Thus we see that according to all ancient history the
Persians, the
Jews, and the Arabians are descendants of Abraham.(p.85) ...We are told that
Terah, the
father of Abraham, originally came from an Eastern country called Ur, of the
Chaldees or
Culdees, to dwell in a district called Mesopotamia. Some time after he had
dwelt there,
Abraham, or Abram, or Brahma, and his wife Sara or Sarai, or Sara-iswati, left
their
father's family and came into Canaan. The identity of Abraham and Sara with
Brahma
and Saraiswati was first pointed out by the Jesuit missionaries.
(Vol. I; p. 387.)
In Hindu mythology, Sarai-Svati is Brahm's sister. The bible gives two
stories of Abraham. In this first version, Abraham told Pharaoh that
he was lying when he introduced Sarai as his sister. In the second
version, he also told the king of Gerar that Sarai was really his
sister. However, when the king scolded him for lying, Abraham said
that Sarai was in reality both his wife and his sister! ...and yet
