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 The Bible Spoof: Sex, Clerical Thugs, Sheepskin Rugs ‘n’ Bless My Soul ''' by Virginia Langley published by eBooks-UK (Woodlord Publishing). '''

 The Bible Spoof is a wry and dry, humorous attack on the celebration of the male creative writing to be found in Ye Olde Testosterone and the New Testes of the King James Bible. This recently marked its 400th anniversary in 4 AB, four years After Blair. The analysis of the Bible story brings a long overdue irreverent, female common sense perspective to bear on this Holey Book. Drawing on historical, scientific, archaeological, religious and artistic evidence the work challenges the orthodox wisdom on which Judaism, modern Christianity and traditional Islam is based.

 Virginia Langley progressively dismantles the secondary source materials used by a rag-bag of non Aramaic speaking North African bishops or, fondling fathers, at the dawn of the first millennium. She assuredly demonstrates that Jesus did not create the Church, the sexist Church created not only Christ but also the apostles, the prophets and the misogynistic Paul. The Bible Spoof is especially critical, too, of the derivative teachings in the epistles concerning negative attitudes to women which can be traced back to earlier chauvinistic Greek philosophers. Moreover, it is alleged that even the concept of the Trinity can be traced back to the three masked actors in Greek classical theatre, while the similarities between Jesus and Dionysus, the Greek God of wine, the son of the Greek God, Zeus, and the mortal, Semele, have been further plagiarised by Greek translators.

 Of particular note is the writer’s tracing of the evidence for the historical Christ to the writings of Bishop Eusebius in his magnum opus, Church History. This is important as Eusebius was the religious adviser to the Emperor Constantine who cemented the two flanks of Roman hegemony in 325 CE to form the Holy Roman Empire under the banner of Christianity. In Church History Eusebius draws on the testimony of the Jewish rebel and historian, Josephus, who traitorously became a Citizen of Rome. However, as Josephus was born after Christ allegedly was crucified he cannot be accepted as a credible contemporaneous witness and his testimony to Christ’s existence is dismissed as unmeritorious. In comparison, the leading Jewish historian, Philo, and contemporary resident of Jerusalem makes no mention of Christ at all in his own widely acclaimed histories.

 The work follows a chapter by chapter analysis of The Bible and includes two important additions namely court cases between the writer and first, the apostle Paul and second, the writer(s) of the Book of Revelation where the evidence is given a judicial review.

 As we approach each festive season you are also reminded that the Roman Emperor Aurelian declared a public holiday in honour of the Iranian Sun God Mithras on Christmas day as late as 274 CE. The opportunity is taken to wish all reviewers a very Merry Mithras. Ah men, ah men!

'''Political notes: '''

 The Bible Spoof is also a female response to a quote from Michael Moore in his book Stupid White Men where he states, “I don’t want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created, or what the historical or biblical claims are to the land.” Virginia Langley tackles this issue head on by dissecting the arguments which are at the root of the current conflict between Israel and the Palestine Authority. A passage from Ezekiel (47:21-23) is highlighted which recognises the rights of inheritance of so-called strangers born in the country among the tribes of Israel. This is recognised by UNESCO but not yet the United Nations, President Obama or the Israeli Prime Minister whom this month in a spirit of cooperation has given approval to build a further 2,000 homes in East Jerusalem and make a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran in the land of his ancestors (See the Book of Esther).

'''Religious notes: '''

 Virginia Langley posits the notion that life began with a designer vagina and that god is really a woman, a conjecture also made by Lord Bragg in his Book of Books. Ms Langley is a lapsed Presbyterian who enjoys attending mass with her second husband to share the community spirit but not communion.

'''About the author: '''

 Virginia Langley was conceived in Bermuda and was born in Lennox Castle, Scotland. She has a keen interest in comparative religion, international business, development aid and peace. With a background as an economist she is a much travelled chair of a number of aid related consultancies. She lives in East Sussex and Portugal.

'''About the book: '''

 ISBN:  978-1-906602-24-6 Available as an eBook from ebooks-uk.com and from Kindle. Orders for a traditional printed version also to ebook-uk.com, Amazon and from leading booksellers including Waterstones and Foyles.

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