RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 29, 2018 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2018 at 10:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Wyrd
"In the story"..the people who came up against an iron axle were the hilljack rabble of judah....rightly terrified of fighting on the open plains..particularly on something as flimsy as a promise from "god". It wouldn;t have just been iron axles, though. They;d have employed iron points and tips as well (and..honestly, not that many iron axled chariots). Meanwhile, they were packing fire hardened wooden spears, slings, and a few bronze pieces here and there. In short, they were facing absolute technological superiority.
I mentioned this in the last thread we had occasion..but, the whole bit in magic book about beating swords into ploughshares was legit..but in the reverse. The hillbillies were not allowed to possess the tools or infrastructure to work iron. They had to get their shit (and get it repaired) from the local lowland overlords..precisely so that they couldn;t mount a credible threat. The author of the fairy tales mentions these iron chariots offhand, with no elaboration..because it would have seemed entirely obvious to the audience of the time. As obvious as me telling you not to bring a knife to a gunfight..even though that idiom may confuse someone not in the know.
"In the story"..the people who came up against an iron axle were the hilljack rabble of judah....rightly terrified of fighting on the open plains..particularly on something as flimsy as a promise from "god". It wouldn;t have just been iron axles, though. They;d have employed iron points and tips as well (and..honestly, not that many iron axled chariots). Meanwhile, they were packing fire hardened wooden spears, slings, and a few bronze pieces here and there. In short, they were facing absolute technological superiority.
I mentioned this in the last thread we had occasion..but, the whole bit in magic book about beating swords into ploughshares was legit..but in the reverse. The hillbillies were not allowed to possess the tools or infrastructure to work iron. They had to get their shit (and get it repaired) from the local lowland overlords..precisely so that they couldn;t mount a credible threat. The author of the fairy tales mentions these iron chariots offhand, with no elaboration..because it would have seemed entirely obvious to the audience of the time. As obvious as me telling you not to bring a knife to a gunfight..even though that idiom may confuse someone not in the know.
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