(January 8, 2012 at 4:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: As if those "works" were their own in the first place.
No single author penned these things. We can clearly see that these stories were cobbled together over time, they share similar themes with earlier (and later) stories, as well as stories from just about anywhere else. We're not talking about the early infancy of mankind here when we discuss these tales. They had nearly 100,000 years of tradition behind them at this point. It's very similar to a modern author re-writing their own version of The Illiad, and then asking which is authoritative. Both, neither.
I agree that it is all myths taken from older cultures. That has no relevance to the question.
The Jews re-wrote them no doubt. To their understanding and culture. Not to the understanding and culture that came much later and usurped them.
Jews are bright enough that they do not take their myths literally but you have noted, I am sure, that Christianity, in its stupidity, does.
Let me ask the same another way. The work of Nostradamus.
Who is likely to understand them better? The French or the English?
Regards
DL
