RE: Made in Alexandria: The Origin of the Yahweh Cult
March 20, 2013 at 9:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2013 at 9:35 pm by A_Nony_Mouse.)
(March 20, 2013 at 5:18 pm)frz Wrote: Will do, eventually. I have not cared about reading anymore on these matters for a while since the days of MySpace. The argument s where usually endless with the same rhetoric denials by the faithful as you see here. The only difference that I see now in their argument is that they are using scientific language as the scientist, either to try come off as smarter than they are or to add confusion. The same way they invented creationism to counter Darwinism.
I only suggested it for fun and then a perverse kind not the humorous, enjoyable kind. You can also look into the complete writings of all the "church fathers" and discover later generations would consider all of them heretics. Catholics would even send Paul to the stake for preaching salvation by faith alone. Peter would also go to the stake as "his" gospel says Mary was a junior wife of the polygamous Joseph -- although it does explain how Jesus had brothers and sisters. Such are the quandries of pick and choose dogma.
People who try to fake scientific language are easily exposed by any real scientist. Note the guy here pretending to explain carbon dating. They do not know when they are posting nonsense.
(March 20, 2013 at 8:20 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Aside from the c14 dating there has also been extensive paleographic dating of the Isaiah scroll. That generally comes in with the range 150-100 BC.
It is important to remember that c14 dates the scroll itself while paleography dates the writing. The 202-107 dating is fully consistent with the paleographic dating and further corresponds to the known existence of an actual independent Jewish polity in the second half of the 2d century BC which might have benefited from such a collection of folklore.
150 to 100 BC exactly in the time frame I suggest for the invention of the OT. Now if believers want to claim w/evidence it was created in bibleland in that time frame I would be hard pressed to argue with them without reference to the forgery appearing at the early end of that time frame.
There is no need for the forgery other than to cover up Greek being the original.
