RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 25, 2018 at 1:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 1:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Heres some more ammo, if you're interested, Wyrd. Certain sects of judaism (and some scholarship) claim that the song of deborah and the song of miriam are some of the oldest stories in the bible. They come from two culturally disparate sources.
Amusingly, the song of deberah contains no note of levi. The song of miriam....fails to include isreal.
The prevailing theory is that there were western asiatics travelling to and fro from egypt and thus there would have been cultural transfer, but also cloisters of cultural isolation. Exodus is, in all likelihood, a myth trying to make sense of the confluence of these two traditions. How, in displacement (one way or another) they came to be the same people, and worship the same god. Obviously, none of this happened in the 12th century bc or whatever fucking nonsense people need to invoke to convince themselves that the stories are literally true because theyre..like, really really old..and stuff.
Amusingly, the song of deberah contains no note of levi. The song of miriam....fails to include isreal.
The prevailing theory is that there were western asiatics travelling to and fro from egypt and thus there would have been cultural transfer, but also cloisters of cultural isolation. Exodus is, in all likelihood, a myth trying to make sense of the confluence of these two traditions. How, in displacement (one way or another) they came to be the same people, and worship the same god. Obviously, none of this happened in the 12th century bc or whatever fucking nonsense people need to invoke to convince themselves that the stories are literally true because theyre..like, really really old..and stuff.
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