Walter Mattfeld

Born in Philadelphia, PA in 1943, my stepfather was a career U.S. Air Force enlisted man so I grew up as an Air Force "brat."

I have always had an interest in History since I was a child.

I graduated from Lompoc High School in Lompoc California in 1961; got an Associate of Arts Degree at Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, California in 1963; a Bachelor of Science and Masters in Education in Social Studies at California State Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo in 1966 and 1968. From 1970-2002 I served my country as a teacher of Art and of Social Studies to children of our U.S. Armed Forces personnel (Navy, Air Force and Army) in various locations: Scotland, the Netherlands, England, South Korea and West Germany, where I retired from the Department of Defense Overseas Schools System.

Since 1970 I have researched the pre-biblical origins of the Bible from an Anthropological point of view. I understand that Liberal PhD scholars are correct, the Bible is a recast of earlier pagan religious beliefs: Canaanite, Phoenician, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian.

As a former Geography teacher I have an interest in researching and identifying sites mentioned in the Bible whose identities are a mystery.

I also am interested in Genealogy and since 1970 have traced my Matanzas, Cuba roots into the late 1500s in Spain and the late 1500s in Germany and my Pennsylvania German roots to 1726, noting several served in the American Revolutionary War of 1776-1783.

In December of 2000 I created a website www.bibleorigins.net to share my bible research with the internet world. In 2009 I began creating YouTube videos on the Bible under the YouTube identity of Walter R. Mattfeld.

My two books are (1) _Eden's Serpent: Its Mesopotamian Origins_ (October 2010) and _The Garden of Eden Myth: Its Pre-biblical Origin in Mesopotamian Myths_ (Nov. 2010), both were self published via Lulu.com. It is understood that Genesis' stories about the Garden of Eden are Hebrew myths that are recasts of earlier Mesopotamian myths as noted by some Liberal PhD scholars since 1854.