The Naked Bible
The Truth about the most famous book in history
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La autoridad que la obra reclama es un oficio, no una teología: la de quien tradujo diecinueve libros del Antiguo Testamento para Edizioni San Paolo y firma como «the author of the Italian interlinear translation» «Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · p. 56». Desde ahí Biglino acota lo que dice: «I only pronounce myself on what I know. I tell what seems to me to be written, verbatim, in the Bible, that's all.» «Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · p. 10».
Su tesis es de léxico antes que de doctrina: hay términos hebreos que, dice, no deben traducirse —Elohim, Yahweh, Kavod, Ruach, Elyon—, y sin esa traducción el texto cuenta otra cosa «Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · p. 58». El glosario final del libro convierte el método en instrumento «Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · pp. 277-278».
La lectura literal se declara una entre varias legítimas, no la única: «All of them are legitimate, all of them are interesting, provided that we do not to presume to exclude the textual, literal reading» «Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · p. 25» — dicho de la lectura simbólica, esotérica, gemátrica y cabalística.
Casi todo el cuerpo es prosa de Cattaneo. Las páginas de actualidad —Soleimani, el Great Reset, Davos, Viganò, la Agenda 2030— son estructura real del libro y están fichadas como tales, pero el material de Paolo Rumor lo introduce el narrador y Biglino se abstiene expresamente de juzgarlo «Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · p. 44».
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recorded, never asserted«Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · p. 2»
«Biglino y Cattaneo — The Naked Bible (2021) · p. 2»
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48 entries — the work's own voice, with its locator«I only pronounce myself on what I know. I tell what seems to me to be written, verbatim, in the Bible, that's all.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«I have never encountered Him, amid those verses I studied.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre Dios en los versículos que tradujo.
«What he does know, however, is that the God celebrated by monotheisms does not, unfortunately, dwell at all among those ancient scrolls.» — voz del narrador (Cattaneo), resumiendo a Biglino en tercera persona.
«They listed me, Mauro Biglino, as the author of the Italian interlinear translation.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre el encargo de las cinco Meghillot.
«Edizioni San Paolo never published rash or improper translations, nothing not justified by the textuality of the original Hebrew.» — voz del narrador; el aval de la editorial de la Iglesia lo formula él, no Biglino.
«I've said many times in recent years that there are terms that, in my opinion, should not be translated. It's a question of integrity, since we do not know exactly what they mean.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«My greatest satisfaction was that, in those volumes, ‘Elohim' always stayed ‘Elohim'.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«The Books of Joshua and Judges would no longer be published, at least not in the version edited by Biglino» — voz del narrador: la ruptura con la editorial tras su primer libro propio.
«I have never dealt with the transcendent God. I limit myself to observing that he is not present in the Bible.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, en la nota biográfica final.
«No – The Kavod of Yahweh. That, and nothing else, is what is actually written» — Biglino, entrecomillado, respondiendo a la pregunta del narrador «The glory of God?».
«Let me repeat that the Hebrew word Kavod is normally translated as ‘glory', but in reality it refers to a heavy powerful object.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«nearly the entire biblical text leads us to think of the Kavod as the device used by Yahweh both to get around and to fight.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«the Book of Ezekiel, in chapters 10 and 11, speaks clearly about what the Kavod does. It says that it rises from the ground, it moves and it lands. And when it takes off, it makes a loud noise.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«the Exodus only mentions the Kavod, a dangerous roaring aircraft.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«It's a term that translates as ‘spirit' but it actually means something more like ‘a mass of air in movement'. Or ‘something that produces wind when it moves'.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre Ruach.
«The Ruach seems to be much bigger, so a means of transportation of greater dimensions. The Kavod, on the other hand, appears to be the specific instrument of the God of the Israelites.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«The verb in the Bible indicates the hovering typical of birds of prey.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre el verbo de Génesis 1:2.
«even ‘Ruach' was not translated: it stayed ‘Ruach' – as, for example, in Genesis 1:2 where ‘the Ruach of the Elohim hovers over the waters'.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre las ediciones interlineales.
«In Hebrew, Elohim is a plural word and consistently indicates a plurality of individuals» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«Originally the Greek term Theos was in all probability an adjective indicating the qualities of a certain type of individuals.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«It is precisely the use of the Latin term Deus that made it possible to insert the concept of the one God.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre la Vulgata.
«translating Yahweh as ‘the Lord' is a complete fabrication.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«Not only were the Cherubim not angels, they were not even individuals in flesh and blood. It turns out, in fact, that they are machines. In this case, flying machines.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«The first kind is the one described as present on top of the Ark of the Covenant, constituting some sort of radio communication device.» — Biglino, entrecomillado; el narrador añade que la raíz de «Keruvim» «stands for ‘the act of covering'».
«The Most High is the absolute superlative, rendering the biblical term ‘Elyon'. But in reality it simply means ‘he who is above'.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«it is stated that it is Elyon, the supreme leader, who assigns the peoples to the various Elohim, and it is on that occasion that Yahweh is assigned the family of Jacob» — voz del narrador, sobre Deuteronomio 32.
«This was a ‘special' community of particularly intelligent super-Sapiens able to understand the orders of the Elohim, the Lords of the Gan Eden, later improperly renamed the Garden of Eden.» — voz del narrador, resumiendo a Biglino sobre los Adamitas.
«Nowhere is it written that the life of the Adamites was eternal in the Gan Eden. Hardly surprising, since not even the Elohim were immortal!» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«the term Shakhar means ‘to get drunk, to speak nonsense.'» — voz del narrador, glosando el término.
«Words to be replaced in order to read the Bible while respecting the authors of the Old Testament.» — encabezado del glosario final, que sustituye God→Elohim, Lord→Yahweh, Most High→Elyon, Spirit of God→Ruach of the Elohim, Glory of God→Kavod, Eternity→Olam, Almighty→El-Shadday.
«In making these replacements, it is not even necessary to ask about the meaning of the terms.» — Biglino, entrecomillado: la abstención sobre el significado es parte del método.
«How they made wander me Elohim far from the house of my father» — el interlineal de Génesis 20:13 tal como lo transcribe el narrador, con el verbo en plural, frente a la versión corriente «When God made me wander far from my father's house».
«Simply put, the Bible in many respects is just a photocopy of the Sumerian-Akkadian ‘Origin Stories' classics: the Atrahasis, Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«the term ‘Eden' is also found in Sumerian-Akkadian texts, where it appears as ‘E-Din', usually translated as ‘the house of the righteous'» — Biglino, entrecomillado; en la misma respuesta identifica a los Elohim bíblicos con «the Sumerian-Akkadian Anunna or Anunnaki».
«In truth, in the early stages, firstborns were sacrificed to him, and this is clearly stated in Ezekiel 20:25.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«this ‘serpent' was one of the Elohim who belonged to the faction of those who were hostile to, or even an enemy of, the Elohim who ruled in the Gan Eden.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«The concept of original sin does not appear in Genesis.» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«The Bible defines him as ‘one who constantly traveled with the Elohim.' Literally, he went back and forth with the Elohim until they took him away for good.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre Enoc.
«In his annotations, the professor writes that in the Hebrew Book of Enoch there is talk of ‘as many as 23 types of divine chariots'.» — Biglino, entrecomillado, citando al profesor Moraldi.
«I use the term ‘alien' in a philologically neutral way, meaning an individual who is ‘different, distinct, separate' from us, but not necessarily» — Biglino, entrecomillado; la frase cierra «extraterrestrial», y en la misma página declara «I am not directly concerned with Ufology».
«The text of Isaiah for example, included in the Qumran scrolls, has about 250 variations in the Masoretic text.» — crítica textual asumida por la obra.
«Jerome translated the Bible in Latin on behalf of Pope Damasus in the 4th century CE» — Biglino, entrecomillado.
«All of them are legitimate, all of them are interesting, provided that we do not to presume to exclude the textual, literal reading» — Biglino, entrecomillado, sobre las lecturas simbólica, esotérica, gemátrica y cabalística.
«Does God exist? Who knows? The translator is very careful not to talk about it. But neither does he have the unshakable certainties of atheists.» — voz del narrador: la abstención sobre la existencia de Dios la formula él.
«perfect example of an executor of the orders of Yahweh: mass extermination and the destruction of other people's altars. The all too familiar biblical ‘script'.» — voz del narrador, leyendo la muerte de Qasem Soleimani (enero de 2020) sobre plantilla bíblica.
«We've now begun to call it by its name: the Great Reset, a universal reconfiguration involving political, social, and healthcare systems.» — voz del narrador.
«Just think of Rudolf Steiner. Already at the beginning of the twentieth century, he was talking about hidden elites» — Biglino, entrecomillado, defendiéndose de la etiqueta de «conspiracy theorist».
«I don't make any judgements on whether these facts are correct or not. I simply want to tell the story as it is and make its content available to anyone.» — Biglino, entrecomillado; la respuesta arranca «‘Like Rumor,' Biglino specifies», y por eso el verbatim empieza tras el inciso. Es la abstención expresa que gobierna todo el material de Rumor.
About the work
15 entries — what the apparatus and scholarship say about it«The Naked Bible The Truth about the most famous book in history by Mauro Biglino and Giorgio Cattaneo» — portadilla: la obra es de dos, y la ficha lo consigna antes que nada.
«Copyright © 2021 Tuthi Srl, Torino Viale XXV aprile, 62 – 10133 Torino customerservice@tuthi.eu Translation: Nathaniel De Saint - Clair Layout: Graffio (Borgone Susa, TO) Cover: Stefano Fusaro» — página legal. El nombre del traductor va con espacios alrededor del guion, tal cual.
«Giorgio Cattaneo has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, playwright and author of documentaries.» — nota biográfica final; añade su colaboración con Giulietto Chiesa. Cattaneo se nombra en dos páginas de todo el libro, la portadilla y esta.
«Incidentally, Mauro Biglino has an excellent relationship with the Jewish community» — voz del narrador sobre su entrevistado; muestra de la prosa en tercera persona que compone el cuerpo.
«According to scholar Zecharia Sitchin, the so-called Sumerian gods – the Anunna, or Anunnaki – made Homo sapiens through the use of genetic engineering. For Sitchin, the Anunna were not divine beings, but ‘ancient astronauts'.» — tesis de Sitchin expuesta por el narrador en tercera persona, no tesis de Biglino: la base que él reclama es el hebreo, no la sumerología.
«He was called Touth by the Egyptians, Toth by the inhabitants of Alexandria, Hermes by the Greeks.» — cadena Taaut–Thoth–Hermes citada a través de Eusebio, *Praeparatio evangelica*, que a su vez cita a Filón de Biblos sobre Sanjuniatón de Berito. La obra la usa para denunciar la alegorización, no para leer la Biblia en clave hermética.
«We are in times when the fate of the whole world is threatened by a global conspiracy: a global plan called the Great Reset is underway.» — voz de mons. Carlo Maria Viganò, citado en su carta; el narrador la reproduce.
«The book mentions a very peculiar ‘esoteric tradition,' one that ‘is tied to the belief that the history of the human species on Earth is much older, and arouses far more controversy, than what is held by official science.'» — el narrador presenta así *The Other Europe* (2010), de Paolo Rumor, abogado de Vicenza.
«from what in jargon is called ‘the Great Work', a term borrowed from the hermetic lexicon of alchemical tradition, familiar to initiatory circuits.» — el narrador, glosando el material de Rumor: es el único punto de contacto de la obra con el léxico alquímico.
«The project envisages that Europe be governed by a moral leadership, personified by some individuals belonging to branches of ancient nobility that have their roots in the distant past, partly of Jewish extraction.» — cadena de atribución completa: es material del libro de Paolo Rumor, reproducido por el narrador dentro de esta obra, y Biglino se abstiene expresamente de juzgarlo en la p. 44. No es tesis de Biglino ni de la obra.
«I can only express my amazement,» — Rumor confesses, «at the assertion that a more or less significant part of Western history has been and still is skillfully and profoundly influenced by a few ruling minds.» — Rumor sobre su propio material, citado por el narrador.
«If there were any certainty of God, God would not be,» — philosophizes the Catholic theologian Ermis Segatti. — voz de Ermis Segatti, teólogo católico, citada por el narrador.
«we can think that the word of God does resound in those pages after all» — objeción interna en boca del biblista valdense Daniele Garrone, que la obra consigna sin rebatirla.
«Many authoritative Jewish exegetes do not think so» — voz del narrador, sobre el encuentro de 2016 con teólogos cristianos y judíos; en la misma página, «Nothing that could undermine his deductive system based on a literal reading of the Old Testament».
«Reckless? Demented? Out of his mind?» — retórica del narrador, no juicio sobre Biglino ni de Biglino; abre el capítulo con la metáfora de la «magic carpet», también suya.