{"id":783,"date":"2010-12-14T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doxacommunications.com\/kolbe\/if-the-world-only-knew\/"},"modified":"2010-12-14T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T00:32:18","slug":"if-the-world-only-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/if-the-world-only-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"If the World Only Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the World Only Knew
\n<\/em>Noel Derose
\nCESHE, 2008
\n352 pages<\/p>\n

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This book is an overview by Noel Derose of the works of Fernand Crombette (1880-1970), a French Catholic intellectual, who wrote extensively on ancient history.\u00a0 His primary claim to fame was deciphering hieroglyphics using the Egyptian Coptic language.\u00a0 Using this method, he claimed to be able to reconcile the histories of Egypt with that of Genesis in the Bible.<\/p>\n

His works include those on geography, especially the breakup of the continents from a single land mass.\u00a0 He created an atlas to illustrate the detailed movement of the continents.\u00a0 He wrote an entire volume on Easter Island and another on Atlantis.\u00a0 According to Crombette, Atlantis sank at the same time as the Israelite crossing of the Red Sea, which also coincided with the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts and the drying up of the Scythian Ocean.<\/p>\n

He wrote a great deal on the history of Egypt, and also on Crete, the Hittites, the Assyrians and the Babylonians.\u00a0 His work on history led him to question the long ages of evolutionary theory.\u00a0 His work on astronomy led him to a geocentric-type structure of the cosmos.\u00a0 He wrote his own translation of the first 11 chapters of Genesis using his Coptic method.\u00a0 He also wrote a history of France.<\/p>\n

Crombette knew that Egyptian chronology had been developed by reading hieroglyphics, and had been used to question the chronology of the Bible - Genesis in particular.\u00a0 So he made his own study of Egyptian hieroglyphics and decided that the method developed by Champollion was deficient.<\/p>\n

He was well-versed in a number of languages and thought that the Egyptian hieroglyphics might be better read using the ancient Egyptian Coptic language.\u00a0 To his surprise, his method revealed startling similarities between the Egyptian hieroglyphic writings and the Bible.\u00a0 He was also able to decipher the hieroglyphics of Crete using his method.<\/p>\n

Crombette next turned to reading the Bible in the original Hebrew while using his method to interpret the meaning.\u00a0 He translated the first eleven chapters of Genesis in this fashion and came to the conclusion that the earth was taken from the sun, and the moon was taken from the earth.\u00a0 This seems to be in contradiction to the accepted reading of Genesis, however.<\/p>\n

Crombette makes some fascinating claims and seems to be able to lay out evidence to support them.\u00a0 Unfortunately, most of his work was done in isolation and he did not get much feedback on his ideas.\u00a0 The fact that his earth-from-sun and moon-from-earth theory conflicts with the earth-first sequence of Genesis might cause some to wonder about the accuracy of the Coptic method.\u00a0 It would be helpful if experts in linguistics could independently verify his method so that the extent of its application could be known.\u00a0 It would be fascinating if his translations of Egyptian hieroglyphics are correct.<\/p>\n

Eric Bermingham
\nDecember, 2010 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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