RE: Xtian Bible "Prophecy" Demolished
November 7, 2011 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2011 at 12:23 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:Bethelehem is mentioned (v.2) to stress the humble origin of both David and his future successor, who would be a true shepherd of the people (v.4). In its context the oracle prophesises not the birth of the coming king, but the continuity of the line of David. "
That of course is typical obfuscation. Since what it says is inconvenient we'll just pretend that it doesn't mean what it says and make up some other horseshit.
Interesting about that line of "reasoning" ( if you want to use the term incorrectly ) is that even centrist archaeologists like Finkelstein maintain that the whole "Davidic covenant" line of shit arose in the period after Hezekiah. The Kingdom of Israel serves as the bad example and it is Judah - under the probably fictitious "Josiah" - which is to take the lead of restoring the country to its former glory.
Of course, the problem with that is one cannot restore a country to former glory if such glory was an illusion. Archaeology shows that Judah in the 10th century was a rather pitiful collection of miserable villages and some wandering sheep and goat herders. No way in hell did it have any sort of "empire."
As I said to Justt the problem with dating any sort of literature like this is that we have no examples of it prior to the Greek septuagint in the 3d century BCE.
The closest we come is the Silver Scrolls an amulet found by Gabriel Barkay which contains two variants of the same generic prayer, an expanded version of which ended up in the Book of Numbers. God must be fairly shitty at dictation if no one can get it right.
