Dear Readers, Jews, as you may have gathered, often have opinions. And it is my opinion that certain ideas in circulation have gotten so warped through vapid repetition that they have entered the domain of lies. Yes, you heard me. LIES. We, as a people, value education and text. So, in the coming weeks, I […]
Archives for June 2017
Index of Egyptian History (Timeline)
Egyptian history constitutes an awesome period of time. Including the Ptolemies, it covers at least three thousand years (c.3100-30 BC). By contrast, the Roman Emperor Augustus The Archaic or Early Dynastic Period I Dynasty II Dynasty The Old Kingdom III Dynasty IV Dynasty V Dynasty VI Dynasty The First Intermediate Period VII Dynasty VIII […]
Russell Gmirkin – author and lecturer
Chapter Summaries Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible London-New York: Routledge, 2016 (Available now in hardcover or Kindle at Routledge or Amazon.com) This book compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. A striking number of legal parallels are […]
What Happens to the Documentary Hypothesis if the Pentateuch was written 270 BCE? Neil Godfrey*
What happens to the Documentary Hypothesis (DH) if, as outlined in recent posts, the Pentateuch was first written in the third century BCE? That’s the first question that comes to most of us when first hearing a thesis like this. This post outlines Russell Gmirkin’s chapter on the DH, and is thus a continuation […]
Historicity of the Bible, Notes from Thomas L. Thompson – pdf
God against the Gods: Monotheism versus Polytheism – Dr. Madan Lal Goel – pdf
Gods To God Excerpt – pdf
Castration of Ouranos and the Drunkenness of Noah
This post complements my previous one about the Ham “seeing his father’s nakedness” story developing in three stages: Originally the story was an adaption of the myths of the youngest son castrating his father (the motive: to maintain an inheritance) Then it was more delicately shifted to a story of illicit sex And finally […]
The Outsider Test for Faith And How to Take It – Chris Hallquist
The Catholic Church’s contemptuous attitude towards its “flock” » What follows is an excerpt from the draft book chapter I posted yesterday In chapter 1, I wrote: “If a child, say one who’d just watched Disney’s Hercules, asked me if the Greek gods are real, I’d say ‘no’ rather than hedge my bets by saying […]