The Naked Bible

«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 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.

«My acknowledgment and thanks go to Elisabetta, for the precious collaboration provided during the entire drafting of the text» — dedicatoria de los preliminares; es el único crédito de redacción que la obra da fuera de sus dos firmantes.

«Life was packaged like a preserve and brought to Earth.» — voz del rabino cabalista Arie Ben Nun, citada por el narrador.

«From another galaxy, from a planet illuminated by a bright, cold star» — la respuesta de Arie Ben Nun a la pregunta de de dónde vino esa vida, en la misma cita del narrador.

«Mauro Biglino addressed the issue extensively and directly in his video “Le radici del proggetto” (The Roots of the Project), published on November 20th, 2020 on his YouTube channel ilveromaurobiglino» — el narrador sitúa en un video de YouTube el origen de este tramo del libro; la grafía proggetto va tal como la imprime la fuente.

«Echoing Monsignor Viganò, Biglino recalls, Livio Fanzaga has spoken of a “health coup d’état” and a “mass-media coup d’état.”» — voz de Livio Fanzaga, director de Radio Maria, citada por el narrador a través de Biglino.

«As far as the Jews are concerned, the most reliable facts are narrated by Sanchuniaton of Beritus» — Eusebio de Cesarea en la *Praeparatio evangelica*, citado por el narrador; la cadena completa es Eusebio citando a Filón de Biblos que cita a Sanjuniatón.

«had in his hands the memoirs written by Jeròmbalus, priest of the god Yehwò» — la misma cadena; el narrador añade que ese Yehwò es para Biglino el Yahweh bíblico, adjudicación que el libro atribuye a Biglino y no a Eusebio.

«The Greeks, he writes, first appropriated most of the myths created by the ancient priestly caste, then, “after having adorned them in various ways, they transformed them into tragedies and, thinking of seducing men through the charm of fables, they embellished them in every possible way» — Filón de Biblos citado por Eusebio y reproducido por el narrador; la denuncia de la fabulación griega no es de Biglino.

«Our ears, accustomed to these stories since childhood and pummeled by these fantasies for so many centuries, guard the fabulous material transmitted to us by these fables as though it were an archive.» — misma cadena Eusebio–Filón, reproducida por el narrador.

«This model would then be ruled by the giants of what Shoshana Zuboff, a Harvard Business School professor, has called “Surveillance Capitalism.”» — el narrador toma el término de Shoshana Zuboff; no es vocabulario de Biglino.

«Joining the German economist Klaus Schwab, president of the Davos Forum (and the author of the neologism “Great Reset”), are members of the World Bank, influential politicians from the UK and the US and great minds of industry and finance. Their possible goal? To exploit this pandemic crisis, “reset” the economic model and replace it with the so-called “Green New Deal”» — el narrador atribuye a Klaus Schwab la acuñación del término que da nombre al capítulo.

«The man to reveal to him the existence of this phantom “structure” made of unseen powers was Maurice Schumann, an esoterist and well-known French politician and one of the founders of Gaullism» — cadena de atribución del material de Rumor: la fuente última que el libro nombra. El nombre queda pendiente de cotejo, por su cercanía con el de Robert Schuman.

«Global oversight: wars, empires and revolutions, technological advances. And control of knowledge: the gradual diffusion of ideologies, beliefs and information.» — el narrador resume lo que atribuye a esa estructura según Rumor; no es tesis de Biglino, que se abstiene en la p. 44.

«There was, and perhaps still is, at a very high level and unknown to us, a group of people (or an entity) that worked and is still working on an important project» — Paolo Rumor en *The Other Europe*, citado por el narrador.

«Genetic cloning? It is already present in the Bible, according to Egael Safran, professor of medical ethics at the University of Jerusalem.» — voz de Egael Safran, citada por el narrador; el respaldo a la lectura de Adán y Eva como clonación viene de un tercero, no de Biglino.

«His were eloquent titles: The Bible Does Not Talk about God, The Alien God of the Bible, There Is No Creation in the Bible, The Bible Is Not a Sacred text» — el narrador enumera los primeros libros propios de Biglino, de 2010 en adelante.

«there are over 300,000 mentions of him on the web» — el narrador mide así la difusión de su entrevistado.

«A particularly interesting suggestion is offered by the book The Bible Never Said That, which Mauro Biglino wrote in 2017 with Lorena Forni, a philosopher of law and university professor in Milan» — el narrador; coautoría declarada de una obra distinta de esta.

«I have taken note of your precious error report, thank you very much. I cannot imagine how such a mistake could have been made.» — voz de Piergiorgio Ambrogio Beretta, director de la colección en Edizioni San Paolo, en carta que el libro reproduce.

«Do not hesitate to write to me directly to report any other errors.» — misma carta de Don Beretta, reproducida por el narrador.

«I checked your reports carefully right away, and I readily admit that you are correct across the board,» — respuesta de Don Beretta a un segundo informe de erratas, reproducida por el narrador.

«The literal translation you executed corresponds almost exactly to ours.» — Don Beretta sobre las páginas manuscritas del Génesis que Biglino le envió.

«Special thanks to the solidarity of my friend from Turin, Mauro Biglino, who verified the Hebrew text, the Greek version and all editorial work of the final drafts» — crédito impreso en el Éxodo de Edizioni San Paolo, reproducido por el narrador.

«If you agree,” wrote Don Beretta, “I would like to ask you to begin the translation of Joshua and Judges.» — Don Beretta, en el encargo que la editorial acabaría no publicando.

«The title: The Book that Will Forever Change Our Ideas about the Bible. It would be released in that fateful year – 2010.» — el narrador fecha el primer libro propio de Biglino, cuya publicación coincide con el fin de los encargos.