In the late 1930s, a team of German theologians, inspired by National Socialist philosophy, undertook a major project: to remove all traces of Judaic thinking from the Christian Bible. Their efforts to entfuden (de-Jewify) Christianity came to fruition in 1940 with a new work, which they called Die Botschaft Gottes ("The Message of God"), presented here as The Aryan Bible.
Led by Walter Grundmann, this team was convinced that Jesus himself was not a Jew, as it claims in the traditional Bible, but rather a gentile, an Aryan. Born in gentile Galilee, Jesus might have been raised in a Jewish milieu, but racially and ethnically, he was an Aryan, and his worldview and teachings reflect this—once the overlay of Jewish corruption is removed.
To create their new Bible, the German scholars first deleted the Old Testament entirely; this was an obvious step, given that it was an entirely Jewish production intended solely for Jews. Next, they combined and condensed the various biographies of Jesus as found in the first three Gospels (Mark, Matthew, and Luke), yielding a smaller, more coherent, and more consistent account. They then reworked the Gospel of John, retaining its essentially pro-gentile, anti-Jewish intention while removing false accretions. Finally, they collected relevant passages from Paul's letters, the Catholic epistles, and Acts to flesh out Jesus' teachings and the development of the early Church.
In the end, Grundmann and his team produced a remarkable book: an all-new interpretation of Christianity intended for Aryan peoples, while remaining true to the authentic parts of the traditional scripture.
Never before published in English, The Aryan Bible will be of interest to scholars and laymen, Christians and atheists alike. It may yet pave the way for a radical new interpretation of this 2,000-year-old religion.
Reviews
The media and government schools would have us believe that the Third Reich was hostile toward Christianity. We have been lied to. We have to do our own research to learn the truth, as always. The German Christians' Movement was strong in that era. I highly recommend the purchase of this Bible.