The Fundamental Question is a comprehensive investigation of the origins of the Bible based on recent archaeological discoveries and a reinterpretation of the known history.  It explains when, where, why, and how the tradition began, who was responsible for its creation, and identifies the historical events that provided the catalyst for its emergence.  Crucially, it explains the biblical Exodus and places the events that inspired that story in the 8th, rather than the 15th or 13th century BC.


It suggests that the Biblical Tradition can be traced to Hezekiah, a historical king of Judah, and a group of Libyan-Egyptians, known as the Libu (or Livu) who, following the Nubian (or Kushite) invasion of Egypt in about 727 BC, immigrated to Judah from the Nile Delta around 725 BC, under the leadership of a military commander from the 23rd Dynasty whose name is hypothesised to have been Maasha, after his tribe of origin, the Maasha (or Meshwesh) people of the eastern Nile Delta.  It proposes that this Libyan-Egyptian Leader, Maasha, became the inspiration for the biblical story of Moses (or Moshe) based on historical inferences and the reference in the Bible's book of Exodus (2:10) that Moses was given that name because he was "drawn out" of the water, the Hebrew word for "draw out" being "masha" or "mashah."


It further posits that the Libu (or Livu) immigrants whom Maasha led out of Egypt later became the priestly Tribe of Levi (the Levites).  Hezekiah looked to these wealthy, educated, and powerful Libyan-Egyptians to bolster his position made tenuous by the influx of thousands of Israelite refugees into his tiny Kingdom of Judah following Assyria's destruction of Israel in 722 BC.  As Hezekiah struggled to prepare Judah against the impending threat of an Assyrian invasion, he turned to religion to unite the Judahite, Israelite, and Libyan-Egyptian subjects of his kingdom.  Guided by the Libyan-Egyptian priests from the House of Amun in Egypt, who formed the core group within the Levite Tribe, he introduced the first stage of a new and unique state-sponsored theopolitical ideology, Monotheistic Yahwism, which, over time, evolved into Judaism and then Christianity.


This book describes how those events unfolded and how they ultimately led to the emergence of the Bible.

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