ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, The Cosmic Roots of the Bible

Book Synopsis: Can the truth about the Bible be found in the stars? In On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Cosmic Roots of the Bible, by author and biblical scholar Michael Ledo, explores the provocative connections between cosmic mythology and religious study. Written in clear, reader-friendly prose, this thought-provoking book looks at how cultural and historical influences and equinox precession actually caused the Hebrews to add passages to their texts, expanding basic stories into something more monumental. He shows how Greek cosmic myths can be tied to Hebrew myths and explores how even parts of the gospels of Jesus were representations of a Greco-Roman interpretation of the constellations. Biblical students and readers interested in the Bible will be fascinated at this radical and relevant reinterpretation of one of the world's most treasured and important books.

Summary: This is a landmark book that will change forever how the scholarly community views the Bible, history, and myth. In spite of what appears to be a New Age title, this book is built upon scholarship. There are three major tenets to this book:
1) The current notion of Wellhausen’s document hypothesis and the unified text theory are both wrong. The Bible was constructed as a “living” document using the same identical techniques already known to us via Tigay’s work on Gilgamesh.
2) Knowing the techniques used to expand texts, one can do some deconstruction of the text in order to uncover the original or proto-Bible text. Why this has never been done I don’t know. It would be the logical next step to do once we discovered exactly how it was done to Gilgamesh. When this is done what is left is a Middle Bronze Age text, about 1000 years older than what is currently believed by “accepted” scholars. This text dates to circa 1930 BCE..
3) This proto-text is a huge cosmic myth. It follows the constellations in a contiguous fashion leaving no doubt that this is indeed an ancient cosmic myth.
4) There are interesting corollaries to this also. The stories are not entirely fictional, nor were they intended to be. They combine history and myth. I have been able to positively identify Biblical characters with known historical figures and events including Moses, David and Solomon.
Well-documented sources.