(February 18, 2019 at 12:48 am)Belaqua Wrote:Hammurabi predates your magic book and was literally written in stone. The chinese kept written records all the way through your magic global flood without noticing it happened at all, speaking of which, the holey babble plagiarised that from the earlier Epic of Gilgamesh. Do you even make a vague attempt to address such glaring fuckups? No. You glom onto the hyperbole of "bronze age" in order to distract from the glaring inconsistencies and flat out lies in your big bumper book of bullshit.(February 18, 2019 at 12:01 am)fredd bear Wrote: Addendum: I've done a bit of looking . All I can find is religious Jewish opinion, which is questionable as a source. At this point, I'm unable to state categorically, that the oral tradition of the Torah goes back to bronze age. Nor am I convinced this is not the case. As a result, I will no longer refer to the tribes who became the Jews as 'bronze age'. Yes, I admit, the rhetoric has a nice ring. However, I can no longer use it as it I can't prove I'm correct using the term.
I suspect that some of the stories have deep roots. But since illiterate Goat Age bronze herders didn't write stuff down, that's hard to say.
(February 18, 2019 at 12:48 am)Belaqua Wrote: I've heard the phrase a lot on sites like these, and I find it amusing that people pissed off by the historical inaccuracy of the Bible use a historically inaccurate insult.Perhaps the insult is inaccurate. So what? The buybull is an extravaganza of insanity. Pointing and screaming "Look, squirrel" does not make that go away.
(February 18, 2019 at 12:48 am)Belaqua Wrote: But, again, if we're all just waving hyperbole around, I guess anything goes. As I've said a billion times.If one carefully traces the bible fables origins, technically they do go as far back as the bronze age. The bible writers simply plagiarised the writings of much earlier folks. I find it risible the those who believe in the buybull are so colossally ignorant of it's actual history.But hey, these are people who have no problem with Moses attending his own funeral as an observer. That is next level nutty.