Good book for looking up history of the Old Testament.

Not for the faint of heart. This 80 year old book was written in an age when all British Gentleman studied the classics, so its style assumes a reader that would be a rare bird indeed in modern America. None in all the hallowed halls of the American Ivy League is up to the scholarship in this book which assumes the reader has an education in the Greek Classics. It is a difficult read, but more than worth the effort.

Alexander Hislop makes a compelling case for the Babylonian origin of all modern religions, dating back to the days of the Chaldean pagan Mysteries. Babylonian, Egyptian, Hindu, Asian, Grecian, Roman, and Papal systems all are all tied together in a compelling and rather convincing web of evidence.

Biblical Christianity escapes the authors scathing indictment in his thesis that modern religions are all traceable to the days of Bab-El and the unholy trinity of Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz. Surprisingly, evidence from the bible itself is included in this study.

This book is an amazing work of Classical scholarship the likes of which no longer exist now that the Classics have been abandoned in American education. I doubt that one reader in ten will have the tenacity or ability to struggle through the first 25% of the book.

However, once the basic premise is established with scholarly technique and precision, the remaining 3/4 of the book contains the authors inescapable conclusions. These will be shocking to many, an abomination to some, and will be completely rejected by supporters of the papacy. Although the author is precise and detailed in building his case, the conclusions are simply too shocking to be countenanced by papists in particular.