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Paul Wallis, on The 5th Kind, hangs his case on a 2024 Jerusalem seal of the official Yeho’Ezer. The figure cut into it, he says, is a Mesopotamian genie on a Jewish administrator’s stamp. A longtime preacher, he claims that a theology degree already includes the Bible’s debt to older stories from Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria, a debt made public by nineteenth century decipherment and by scholars who set those tablets beside Genesis. He praises study editions that keep the divine titles distinct. Elohim, in his reading, means powerful ones and can take plural verbs, so the texts may speak of many beings rather than one. He asks whether those Elohim are the Anuna of Sumer. Flood plots repeat under different names, he says, and a Tagalog account also separates waters from land. From Hezekiah and Josiah on, other powers were stripped from memory so Yahweh alone would be recalled as creator. Seminaries teach this, but new pastors stay quiet. The page reports that older contact argument as his claim.
Key points
- Wallis treats the Yeho’Ezer seal as physical evidence that Mesopotamian imagery sat inside Jerusalem’s administration.
- He says trained pastors already know that Genesis shares plots with older Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian narrative.
- Different divine titles, in his view, should stay visible in translation instead of collapsing into a single Lord.
- He poses the Elohim as plural powerful ones and asks if they match the Anuna of Sumer.
- Flood stories and a Philippine separation of waters are, for him, versions of one widespread plot.
- He claims later kings erased rival powers so Yahweh would stand alone, and that church culture still hides that lesson.
Short quotes
transparent with regard to the translations of words conventionally understood to be names for God so if
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He wants translations to show which divine title the Hebrew actually uses. Watch at 7:57
Gilgamesh and think whoa these stories sound familiar the question you should ask is well how does the biblical
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Familiarity with Gilgamesh, he says, should force a question about the biblical version. Watch at 18:09
understand them differently so are the Elohim of the Bible the same as the anuna of Sumeria
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He asks whether biblical Elohim and the Sumerian Anuna are the same powers. Watch at 22:13
why have theological education if you're going to let that be the driving Dynamic
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He asks what seminary is for if pastors then hide what they were taught. Watch at 38:05
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