(March 21, 2013 at 1:43 am)Minimalist Wrote: Well he is a world class scholar of this shit.
Once the OT is dismissed for the horseshit that it is, we have nothing to indicate that there was anything recognizable as "judaism" until the Persian period.
I have about 2 1/2 chapters and so far so good. I have not found his basis for saying it was written in the Persian period as yet. I can "praise" him for making the same discriminants as I do as well as point out he is less blunt. I do clearly state the books started as entertainment whereas he does not appear to be willing to go further than declaring it fiction.
In any event it is the first time I seen many of the points I have made but from an entirely different perspective. So far that perspective is so different that while the same points I can't use it. He is much more thorough. He does have a propensity for "technical" terms many of which are his own. As I said, very wordy.
