My theory is the Christians....
The Christians spent centuries trying to destroy any knowledge of their origins... They burned thousands of books where they stole their stories and rituals...
I imagine that Christians are the ones behind trying to exterminate the Jews throughout history, Nazi's included...
Christians are clearly ashamed of having stolen all their texts and traditions from other sources, and they have successfully destroyed 99% of all evidence, except for those pesky Jews... They keep trying to exterminate the Jews, but fail every time
This is completely irrelevant as well posted to offend christians without proper proof.
Can you suggest a book that's been burned so to take rule over the jews or the
other religious people. Just post christians don't get into this discussion.
After the First Council of Nicea (CE 325), Roman emperor Constantine the Great issued an edict against nontrinitarian Arians which included systematical book burning; "In addition, if any writing composed by Arius should be found, it should be handed over to the flames, so that not only will the wickedness of his teaching be obliterated, but nothing will be left even to remind anyone of him. And I hereby make a public order, that if someone should be discovered to have hidden a writing composed by Arius, and not to have immediately brought it forward and destroyed it by fire, his penalty shall be death. As soon as he is discovered in this offense, he shall be submitted for capital punishment....." According to Elaine Pagels, "In AD 367, Athanasius, the zealous bishop of Alexandria... issued an Easter letter in which he demanded that Egyptian monks destroy all such unacceptable writings, except for those he specifically listed as 'acceptable' even 'canonical' — a list that constitutes the present 'New Testament'". Pagels cites Athanasius's Paschal letter (letter 39) for 367 AD, which prescribes a canon but does not explicitly order monks to destroy excluded works. Heretical texts do not turn up as palimpsests, washed clean and overwritten, as do many texts of Classical antiquity. According to author Rebecca Knuth, multitudes of early Christian texts have been as thoroughly "destroyed" as if they had been publicly burnt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidents1 Antiquity
1.1 Destruction of Ebla
1.2 Destruction of Mari
1.3 Destruction of Alalakh
1.4 Destruction of Ugarit
1.5 Library of Ashurbanipal (by Babylonians, Scythians and Medes)
1.6 A scroll written by the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (burnt by King Jehoiakim)
1.7 Protagoras's "On the Gods" (by Athenian authorities)
1.8 Zoroastrian scriptures and Persian Royal Archives (by Alexander the Great)
1.9 Chinese philosophy books (by Emperor Qin Shi Huang and anti-Qin rebels)
1.10 Books of Pretended Prophecies (by Roman authorities)
1.11 Jewish holy books (by the Seleucid monarch Antiochus IV)
1.12 Aeneid (unsuccessfully ordered by Virgil)
1.13 Roman history book (by the aediles)
1.14 Greek and Latin prophetic verse (by the Emperor Augustus)
1.15 Torah scroll (by Roman soldier)
1.16 Sorcery scrolls (by early converts to Christianity at Ephesus)
1.17 Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion burned with a Torah scroll (under Hadrian)
1.18 Burning of the Torah by Apostomus (precise time and circumstances debated)
1.19 Epicurus's book (in Paphlagonia)
1.20 Manichaean and Christian scriptures (by Diocletian)
1.21 Books of Arianism (after Council of Nicaea)
1.22 Library of Antioch (by Jovian)
1.23 "Unacceptable writings" (by Athanasius)
1.24 The Sibylline books (various times)
1.25 Writings of Priscillian
1.26 Etrusca Disciplina
1.27 Nestorius' books (by Theodosius II)
2 Middle Ages
2.1 Patriarch Eutychius' book (by Emperor Tiberius II Constantine)
2.2 Archives of Ctesiphon (during Arab conquest)
2.3 Japanese books and manuscripts (during power struggle at the Imperial court)
2.4 Repeated destruction of Alexandria libraries
2.5 Qur'anic texts with varying wording (ordered by the 3rd Caliph, Uthman)
2.6 Competing prayer books (at Toledo)
2.7 Abelard forced to burn his own book (at Soissons)
2.8 The writings of Arnold of Brescia (at France and Rome)
2.9 Nalanda University
2.10 Samanid Dynasty Library
2.11 Buddhist writings in the Maldives
2.12 Destruction of Cathar texts (Languedoc region of France)
2.13 Maimonides' philosophy (at Montpellier)
2.14 The Talmud (at Paris), first of many such burnings over the next centuries
2.15 Rabbi Nachmanides' account of the Disputation of Barcelona (by Dominicans)
2.16 The House of Wisdom library (at Baghdad)
2.17 Lollard books and writings (By English Law)
2.18 Wycliffe's books (at Prague)
2.19 Villena's books (in Castile)
2.20 Codices of the peoples conquered by the Aztecs (by Itzcoatl)
2.21 Gemistus Pletho's Nómoi (by Partiarch Gennadius II)
3 Early Modern Period (from 1492 to 1650)
3.1 Library and archives of the Novgorod Republic (by Ivan III and Ivan IV)
3.2 Decameron, Ovid and other "lewd" books (by Savonarola)
3.3 Arabic and Hebrew books (in Andalucía)
3.4 Catholic theological works (by Martin Luther)
3.5 Tyndale's New Testament (in England)
3.6 English Monastic Libraries (during the Dissolution of the Monasteries)
3.7 Servetus's writings (burned with their author at Geneva, and also burned at Vienne)
3.8 The Historie of Italie (In England)
3.9 Maya codices (by Spanish Bishop of Yucatan)
3.10 "Obscene" Maltese poetry (by the Inquisition)
3.11 Arwi books (by Portuguese in India and Ceylon)
3.12 Bernardino de Sahagún's manuscripts on Aztec culture (by Spanish authorities)
3.13 Books from the Bibliotheca Palatina (by Catholic troops)
3.14 Luther's Bible translation (by German Catholics)
3.15 Uriel da Costa's book (By Jewish community and city authorities in Amsterdam)
3.16 Marco Antonio de Dominis' writings (in Rome)
4 Early Modern Period (from 1650 until the turn of the 19th century)
4.1 Books burned by civil, military and ecclesiastical authorities between 1640 and 1660 (in Cromwell's England)
4.2 Earl of Worcester's library (by New Model Army)
4.3 Book criticising Puritanism (in Boston)
4.4 Manuscripts of John Amos Comenius (by anti-Swedish Polish partisans)
4.5 Quaker books (in Boston)
4.6 Great Fire (London)
4.7 Hobbes books (at Oxford University)
4.8 Swedish National Archives
4.9 Mythical (and/or mystical) writings of Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (by rabbis)
4.10 Protestant books and Bibles (by Archbishop of Salzburg)
4.11 Amalasunta (by Carlo Goldoni)
4.12 The writings of Johann Christian Edelmann (by Imperial authorities in Frankfurt)
4.13 Books that offended Qianlong Emperor
4.14 Anti-Wilhelm Tell tract (at Canton of Uri)
4.15 Books of Voltaire (by French authorities)
4.16 Vernacular Catholic hymn books (at Mainz)
4.17 Cluny Abbey's library
4.18 Egyptian archaeological finds (threatened burning by French scholars)
5 Industrial Revolution period
5.1 "The Burned Book" (by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov)
5.2 Musin-Pushkin's library (In Great Moscow Fire)
5.3 Records of the Goa Inquisition (by Portuguese colonial authorities)
5.4 Original Library of Congress Collection (by British troops)
5.5 The Code Napoléon (by German Nationalist students)
5.6 Early braille books (in Paris)
5.7 Library of St. Augustine Academy, Philadelphia (by anti-Irish rioters)
5.8 Chinese literary works (By Anglo-French troops in Beijing)
5.9 "The Bonnie Blue Flag" (by Union General Benjamin Butler)
5.10 Edmond Potonie's papers (by French Police)
5.11 Library of Strasbourg (in German bombardment)
5.12 Library of the Louvre (during suppression of the Paris Commune)
5.13 "Lewd" books (by Anthony Comstock and the NYSSV)
5.14 Pedigrees and books of Muslim law and theology (By the Mahdi in Sudan)
5.15 Emily Dickinson's correspondence (on her orders)
5.16 Ivan Bloch's research on Russian Jews (by Tsarist Russian government)
5.17 Italian Nationalist literature (by Austrian authorities in Trieste)
6 WWI and interbellum era
6.1 Leuven University Library (by World War I German Army)
6.2 Many books (by Communists in Russia)
6.3 Valley of the Squinting Windows (at Delvin, Ireland)
6.4 George Grosz's cartoons (By court order in Weimar Germany)
6.5 Irish National Archives (in Civil War)
6.6 Plunkett family records (in Civil War)
6.7 Jewish, anti-Nazi and "degenerate" books (by the Nazis)
6.8 Theodore Dreiser's works (at Warsaw, Indiana)
6.9 Works of Goethe, Shaw, and Freud (by Metaxas dictatorship in Greece)
6.10 Pompeu Fabra's library (by Franco's troops)
7 World War II
7.1 Leuven University Library (by World War II German occupation troops)
7.2 Chinese libraries (by World War II Japanese troops)
7.3 Works in the British Museum (by German bomber planes)
7.4 Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers (by French prison guard)
7.5 Jewish books in Allesandria (by pro-Nazi mob)
7.6 André Malraux's manuscript (by the Gestapo)
7.7 Various libraries in Warsaw, Poland (during World War II)
7.8 Books in the National Library of Serbia (by World War II German bomber planes)
7.9 Douai Municipal Library
7.10 Books in German libraries (by World War II Allied bomber planes)
8 Cold War era and 1990s
8.1 The books of Knut Hamsun (in post-WWII Norway)
8.2 Post-WWII Germany
8.3 Books in Kurdish (in north Iran)
8.4 Comic book burnings, 1948
8.5 Books by Shen Congwen (by Chinese booksellers)
8.6 Judaica collection at Birobidzhan (by Stalin)
8.7 Communist and "fellow traveller" books (by Senator McCarthy)
8.8 Wilhelm Reich's publications (by U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
8.9 Brazil, military coup, 1964
8.10 Religious, Anti-Communist and Genealogy books (in the Cultural Revolution)
8.11 Beatles Burnings – Southern USA, 1966
8.12 Leftist books in Chile after the 1973 coup d'état
8.13 Burning of Jaffna library
8.14 The Satanic Verses (worldwide)
8.15 Book burnings in Croatia
8.16 National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992)
8.17 Abkhazian Research Institute of History, Language and Literature & National Library of Abkhazia (by Georgian troops)
8.18 The Nasir-i Khusraw Foundation in Kabul (by the Taliban regime)
9 21st Century
9.1 Berkeley book burning
9.2 Abu Nuwas poetry (by Egyptian Ministry of Culture)
9.3 Independent Librarians (in Cuba)
9.4 Iraq's national library, Baghdad 2003
9.5 Harry Potter books (in various American cities)
9.6 Inventory of Prospero's Books (by proprietors Tom Wayne and W.E. Leathem)
9.7 New Testaments in city of Or Yehuda, Israel
9.8 Non-approved Bibles, books and music in Canton, North Carolina
9.9 Bagram Bibles
9.10 2010–11 Florida Qur'an burning and related burnings
9.11 Operation Dark Heart, memoir by Anthony Shaffer (by the U. S. Dept. of Defense)
9.12 The burning of the library in the Institut d'Egypte in Cairo
9.13 Suspected Colorado City incident
9.14 Qur'ans in Afghanistan
9.15 Climate change book at San Jose State University
9.16 Manuscripts in Timbuktu
9.17 National Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014)
