Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

My guess is that this will be largely ignored.

(April 8, 2010 at 1:03 pm)Disinter Wrote: Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

My guess is that this will simply be turned around. IOW, they will assume that the Assyrians "copied" the wording from their silly fucking bible.

Dismissing the religious shits for the non-entities they are, what is really interesting is that the idea lends credence to the centrist camp of Israel Finkelstein and Ami Mazar. This OT gibberish clearly had a basis in pre-Exilic reality at least in the sense that there was some folklore/legal forms in existence that could be swept up by the biblical writers when they sat down to do the job.

(April 8, 2010 at 1:03 pm)Disinter Wrote: Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

I'm not a fundie but I can tell you that the timeline doesn't quite work. 670 BC is way after the bible was started, which dates back to a religion that's 5,000-6,000 years old. Who copied who?

I guess you didn't read the actual article...

Quote:Although biblical scholarship differs, it is widely accepted that the Hebrew Bible was being assembled around the same time as this treaty, the seventh century BC.

I think historians / archaeologists might know a bit more about history than you do...

(April 8, 2010 at 6:51 pm)AngelThMan Wrote:

(April 8, 2010 at 1:03 pm)Disinter Wrote: Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

I'm not a fundie but I can tell you that the timeline doesn't quite work. 670 BC is way after the bible was started, which dates back to a religion that's 5,000-6,000 years old. Who copied who?

Hate to tell you but you ARE a fundie.

Apparently,, you don't know WTF you are talking about.

So AngelThMan, if the stories of the bible were passed down verbally then at what point did they conceive the stories? Were they conjured out of superstition? Perhaps god showed up in the middle of evolution and said "hey guys, listen to this!". Or maybe god planted the ideas magically into their head?