The Holy Tablets

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The Holy Tablets is a religious text written by Dwight York, under the name Malachi Z. York. It was first published in 1996 by York's religious movement Holy Tabernacle Ministries, later the Nuwaubian Nation. At over 1,700 pages long, the work contains numerous sagas telling the stories of various religious figures, in a biblical style. It also contains lengthy genealogies of these figures, and full page illuminated illustrations of many of them. Taking influence from Quranist writer Rashad Khalifa, the book has a preoccupation with the number 19, with 19 chapters, each divided into subchapters called "tablets", which each have an amount of verses that is a multiple of 19. It was the sacred text of the Nuwaubian Nation, collecting many tales told by York in his philosophy of "Right Knowledge". Narratives featured in the book include the creation of mankind, the history of Islam among black people in America, and the history of how "true" Islam was supposedly hijacked by an imposter Muhammad. Many of the stories involve extraterrestrial elements, including various alien races who intervened in Earth's history. Other stories include that of Yakub, a mythical black scientist believed by Nuwaubians to have created the white race, and the eventual defeat and imprisonment of the Shaytan by York. It presents York himself as "the awaited one" and as a savior. It was written in a time when the Nuwaubian Nation was moving away from Islam, though it does not completely abandon its elements; scholar Michael Muhammad Knight described it as "post-Islamic" in nature. The Nuwaubian Nation released materials and classes designed to help understand the material. It was positioned by York as a successor and fulfillment of the other Abrahamic holy books, as well as the Book of the Dead. York claimed that he had translated The Holy...