The Most Dangerous Biblical Theory in History: A Bizarre Origin Story

Forget the cosy Sunday‑school version of Genesis. In the 1930s, NS ideologues claimed the Bible’s twelve tribes weren’t Semitic at all but Nordic seafarers born in a vanished northern Atlantis. Rosenberg traced a “Nordic wave” from that lost continent through Persia, India, Greece, Rome and finally Britain. Wieland fused Odin’s twelve Æsir with Jacob’s twelve sons, arguing the Bible was a Norse saga in disguise. Wirth read Ice‑Age carvings as runic hymns to a polar Mother‑goddess, while Gorsleben mapped a lost Atlantean scripture into the runes themselves. Even British‑Israelites like Haberman joined the party, insisting fair‑skinned Saxons and Scots were living Israelites.

This film unpacks how those writers rewired ancient texts, why the they clung to an Aryan Atlantis and how it clashed with the Anglo‑Israelite “Ten‑Tribes” story. No ideology is endorsed here; the goal is to show how myth, race and politics collided in one of the strangest chapters of biblical interpretation. Stick around and decide which detective, Nordic Atlantis or Ten‑Tribes Britain—left the deeper footprint on history.