RE: Fun Bible Facts
March 25, 2012 at 8:55 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2012 at 9:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The lifespans described in the bible were an attempt to connect what the authors felt to be the distant past with what was then the present. They could only count so many names, and they had alot of ground to cover, so they took the lazy way out. They were used as intermissions to allow the narrator to hop quickly through time to "notable events" in the psuedo-history of the the people whom the story was centered upon. What would be "reasonable" given the lifespans is a moot point, it's a narrative device (and a common one). It's incredibly amusing that such a rich mythology has formed around what is a simple "and then" break in a narrative. The OT is a collection of folk stories, fairy tales, not a history. It does not have to be consistent with reality. It's only when people can't handle a good story that they completely abandon their fucking mind and do cartwheels to fit the whole bit into the waking world. It's dream-time, not real-time. The level of disinterest one has to have in their own fairy tales not to appreciate this is staggering to me.
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