RE: How realistic is it really?
July 23, 2011 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2011 at 2:21 pm by Minimalist.)
The problem with the Ashkenazi thing, R/S is that it presupposes that the OT bullshit stories are true. We already know they are not. There was a genetic study a few years ago which, IIRC, essentially found that the inhabitants of Canaan were, duh, Canaanites. They spoke a common language ( Aramaic) worshiped the same gods ( El, Baal, etc) and the divisions between them were mainly political.
I am more and more convinced by the work of scholars such as Philip R. Davies that Judaism was a Persian concoction based on a handful of "priests" that was subsequently expanded when the nation obtained temporary independence in the 2d century and suddenly needed a "history."
I am more and more convinced by the work of scholars such as Philip R. Davies that Judaism was a Persian concoction based on a handful of "priests" that was subsequently expanded when the nation obtained temporary independence in the 2d century and suddenly needed a "history."
