Made in Alexandria: The Origin of the Yahweh Cult

[A_Nony_Mouse]

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You have nothing. You don't even know what you're talking about. Made in Alexandria my ass! Bart D. Ehrman shits all over your theory. And that's saying something.

I have never met the man and I doubt he has heard of me. I have heard of him. He is a believer who assumes his conclusions and argues to them. Therefore he is far from impartial and uses fallacies instead of logical thought.

As to his bowel movements I could care less.

YOU have presented not a single thing which demonstrates there is anything older than the Greek version of these stories. Until you do you are lying about me. That is not nice.

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Let's consider something for a moment - almost all scholars - Christian, Jewish, Secular - almost every single one agrees that the OT books were written at different times to each other and over a span of at least several hundred years. You're not even a scholar - why is your opinion more valid than the cumulative opinion of the group?
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I am a scholar, in fact at one time nationally recognized by that title. The term scholar is meaningless.

As to consensus reality is not determined by a vote.

As most "scholars" in this field are also believers and there are even atheist believers for political reasons the idea of a consensus if meaningless. You are a believer. Your religious beliefs are superior to any facts you might observe or know. That is the most serious problem with believers. Their and your faith trumps reality and physical evidence.

You invention of an educated Jesus was more than sufficient to demonstrate that.

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“As for Hezekiah, the Judean, he did not submit to my yoke. I laid siege to 46 of his fortified cities, walled forts and to the countless small villages in their vicinity …. I led off 200,150 people, young and old, male and female, horse, mules, donkeys, camels, big and small cattle beyond counting, and counted them as booty.” (Taylor Prism)

700 chariots, 700 cavalry, and 10,000 soldiers belonging to Irhuleni of Hama; 2,000 chariots, and 10,000 soldiers belonging to Ahab, the Israelite Shalmeneser II inscription

“I received the tribute of Jehoash the Samarian, of the Tyrian [ruler] and of the Sidonian [ruler].”Adad-Nirari inscription

I called up the kings of the country Hatti and (of the region) of the other side of the river (Euphrates)...Manasseh, king of Judah..
Inscription of Esarhaddon

(Then) I called up my mighty armed forces which Ashur and Ishtar have entrusted to me and took the shortest road to Egypt and Nubia. During my march (to Egypt) 22 kings from the seashore, the islands, and the mainland [including] Manesseh, king of Judah Inscription of Asshurbanipal

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Of the above items which do you say could not possibly have been incorporated into a 2nd c. BC created story and why?

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You Jesus was a fucking, illiterate peasant too. Why would you think otherwise? Why you would LIE about, MAKE UP reading temple scrolls is just you faith controlling your reality. Perhaps you are schizophrenic.

Bring some evidence - which you don't have.

Evidence the son of some sort of craftsman did not have the education of a priest of the Yahweh cult? One would expect that burden being on you. Priest was hereditary. Joseph was not a priest. You evidence of your invention is ...?

If Joseph were rich enough to afford the equivalent, assuming it existed or were permitted, he would have had many wives. There are no ad hoc explanations. All explanations have to entail every consequence.

BTW: The DSS have neither jots nor tittles. They first appear in the Masoretic.

The "Jot" or "Yodh" is the fourth letter of the Tetragrammaton, are you telling me the DSS don't have the Tetragrammaton??? Tittle doesn't refer to dots or vowel points as you seem to believe FYI.

As the phrase jot and tittle is an English expression referring to punctuation, I will have to defer to your superior knowledge of the Greek phrase so translated. Please recite the original text and explain the reason for this choice of phrase.

The definition of complete can only exist after codices are invented as all educated people know.

Codices date back to the time of Julius Caesar. But that doesn't prove your point anyway.

It refers to your assumption of evidence by choice of words used which is circular.