With an inflexible rigor of analysis, its careful research led him to hypothesize what may very well prove difficult to challenge, and that will most likely change the beliefs of a large number of followers still attached to the three religions “book” in the coming years. I cannot better compare this researcher with Darwin, revealing “The Origin of Species”, or even to Galileo, reversing the roles of the sun and the earth. Both long disputed, due to ideas that seemed delusional to their contemporaries, have helped human kind make unprecedented steps on the path of knowledge.

This book offers a tour of ancient sources of Genesis, and adds a method of rational calculation for transforming the erroneous dates contained in the Bible for ages and periods of time in Genesis. This allows, beyond the thesis of the author (on the dating and transforming of the “Lord” into God), to better understand the ancient origin of this legendary religious text. The integration of Abraham, Jacob and Joseph into history is very interesting. The replacement of Isaac and Ishmael too. The calculations of the dates, difficult to follow, and their results are detailed and put in context. The transformation of the ages, according to their origin (Babylonian base 60 system, ages counted as moon cycles, etc) is very logical, their correction can be discussed, but the result suggested by the author is very interesting and removes irrationalities related to age and duration in Genesis. One should know that apart from the identification of Hammurabi as the “Lord” and the detailed calculation of the dates, all the theses presented in this book come from many researches from historian’s world on the content of Genesis and other very ancient sources.

Bernard Lamborelle has made an outstanding contribution to this process by demonstrating how one can­ establish a historical connection between the central pillar of the most significant myths that have influenced the Western world, the God of Abraham and very real characters that have allowed the emergence of these mythologies. Thank you Bernard Lamborelle. Thank you from my heart for the hope that this work really brings.

I admired the ease with which you navigate the chronologies of Babylon, Egypt and the Bible. Your assumption is troubling. If the Lord of Abraham is king Hammurabi then the whole foundation of the Bible is questioned. In short, your book is essential and I wonder why the media do not make mention of it. Author of La Bible Immorale, Quebec

Lamborelle finally gives us a stream of arguments to prove that the Yahweh of the Bible is none other than a single character, already known to all: Hammurabi, the Babylonian king who gave us the famous code of 282 laws. The saga of Hammurabi, Abraham, Sarah, Ishmael and Isaac, revised and corrected by Lamborelle, is a scenario worthy of a Hollywood movie and, I would add, much more interesting than the classical theological version. … To discover a very plausible “sense” to a story that, taken literally, does not hold water, makes all the enjoyment of this “off the beaten path” reading.