RE: Pagan influences on the biblical stories of Jesus' life
April 7, 2016 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2016 at 12:41 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote: Then Israel moved into Canaan
No. "Israel" and "Judah" developed separately in Canaan, at the beginning of the Iron Age c 1200 BC. You have to lose the whole exodus horseshit. None of it happened. They began as Canaanites and the archaeological evidence is that they were still Canaanites when the Babylonians came rolling in. Whether they were pastoralist nomads who settled down (Finkelstein) or refugees from the Sea People assaults (Dever) or some combination of both they were not a coherent foreign force invading the land from somewhere else. That is simply later propaganda as is the rest of the OT.
By the time judaism was invented in the Persian period Egypt was a much-conquered shell of its former glory. They had been overrun by Libyans, Nubians, and Assyrians, barely held off the Babylonians before the Persians walked in and kicked the shit out of them. It was the Zoroastrian Persians who introduced monotheism (Ahura Mazda) to the world... not the fucking "jews" who were an insignificant ink stain on the map at the time.
