Chat with a creationist

[Abishalom]

Actually it was Jews living in Alexandria who probably started the translation of the Old Testament into Greek. Because they could not understand the Hebrew written in it.

I never said the Greeks translated. I'm not aware if any Greeks actually spoke Hebrew or not. I said that the Greeks ordered it to be translated for scholarly use.

However the rest of the archeological record which is very extensive in that part of the world, don't show really much difference between the "Hebrews" and their "Canaanite" or "Phoenician" neighbors. For example you get in supposedly "Hebrew" sites dating from the 8th and 7th centuries statues of Baal or Yahweh as a bull and those of Astarte (The wife of either El or Yahweh).

Are you being willfully ignorant or intellectually lazy? First of all the "Phoenicians" are "Canaanites". Secondly, the Hebrew "whored" after neighboring nations false gods mixing the false religions to pervert the truth (which Yahweh told them not to do) and Yahweh allowed them to be conquered by the "heathens". This stuff is in the bible (but I'm sure you'd rather not get the facts straight since it makes your argument look better). So we should find said artifacts in those "Hebrew" sites.