Judaism's Strange Gods Author:Michael A., II Hoffman In this scholarly and deeply considered work, the author documents his provocative thesis that Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament, but the newly formalized belief system of the Pharisees, which arose in Babylon with the commitment of the formerly oral tradition of the elders to writing, in the wake of the crucifixion of... more » Israels Messiah and the destruction of the Temple. Basing his findings on authoritative Judaic sources, Hoffman demonstrates that Judaism is a man-made religion of tradition and superstition, which represents the institutionalized nullification of Biblical law and doctrine. Liberating the reader from the accumulated shackles of decades of misinformation, this book shows that Judaisms God is not the God of Israel, but the strange gods of Talmud and Kabbalah, and the racial self-worship they inculcate. Making a relentless case with massive documentation and a lapidary attention to detail, Judaisms Strange Gods constitutes a shocking and original revelation about a subject we thought we knew only too well.« less