Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in a single, omnipotent deity that created the heavens and earth. But if he was and is the only god, why would God need a name? The Bible explicitly tells us that God has one, which indicates he had to be distinguished from other celestial beings, just like humans […]
Moses
Origins Of The Exodus Myth
Rosa Rubicondior Religion, science and politics from a centre-left atheist humanist. The blog religious frauds tell lies about. With so many to choose from, it’s difficult to decide which of the various folk tales, invented ‘histories’ and origin myths that have found themselves bound up in the same book and presented as the inerrant word […]
The Invention of Ancient Israel pdf
Was Israel ever in Egypt pdf
Was Israel ever in Egypt (book)
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The Whole Silly Flood Story
The whole silly Flood story Creationism, Pseudohistory, Religion by Bob Riggins Introduction Creationists are probably more defensive about the Flood than any other part of their mythology. One indication of that is the fact that the seminal work of modern creationism (oxymoron) was called The Genesis Flood. The Flood story apparently required lots of explanation […]
The Argument from the Bible
The Argument from the Bible (1996) By Theodore M. Drange Almost all evangelical Christians believe that the writing of the Bible was divinely inspired and represents God’s main revelation to humanity. They also believe that the Bible contains special features which constitute evidence of its divine inspiration. This would be a use of the […]
The Sinai Argument
Shlomi Tal The question of whether the revelation of God to the ancestry of the nation of Israel took place is of great importance to the Jewish faith, comparable to the Empty Tomb debate in Christianity. As do fundamentalist Christians with the latter, Orthodox Jews base the faith on the alleged historical fact of […]
Evidence and the Exodus
Sometimes, absence of evidence for p does not count as evidence for not-p. So, there being an absence of evidence for, say, that there are 1.2 billion ants in Jerusalem does not count as evidence that there are not 1.2 billion ants in Jerusalem. At other times, however, absence of evidence for p does count […]
Moses And Other Historical Fabrications
HOME If you’ve elected to read the preceding selections in this manuscript, you will have noticed that I often refer to the first five books of the Bible as the Pentateuch. In Greek, the term simply means “five volumes.” Scholars often refer to Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy using this collective term because […]