RE: Made in Alexandria: The Origin of the Yahweh Cult
April 5, 2013 at 4:53 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2013 at 5:00 am by A_Nony_Mouse.)
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Sound bite reply.
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CONCLUSION
In the case of Jerusalem and Judah in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C.,archaeology speaks loud and clear: A) The expansion of the city to the southwestern hill and the settlement prosperity in the Judahite country-side did not start before the middle of the 8th century and reached their peak in the last third of that century.
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Humans as with every species increase their numbers to slightly greater than they can comfortably live. We have a higher population than we can feed. One of the controls of population is starvation. The less obvious control is malnourishment results in greater susceptibility to disease and such which causes early death. You can read about this in hundred places in many different forms. Nothing new here.
Now we have an increase in human population in a land which was already populated slightly above the carrying capacity of the land as is every place humans live.
If there was an increase in population then it was due to methods of increasing the food production of the land. There is no other possibility. A better plow, higher yield grain, more valuable things to grow for trade ... there are many possibilities.
But talking about 8th through 3rd c. is not in the running for being called rapid or sudden. It is more than sufficient time for a dozen improvements in farming to be discovered and spread including cheaper iron plows and opening trade routes for olive oil in exchange for grain.
There is absolutely no way in hell to connect this with Assyria.
I have found an incredible number of cases where the academic "experts" are unaware of the most elementary principles of other fields. Five centuries is not rapid for a species that can double in every generation if well fed.
I also point out Judahite is a bible based name for part of Palestine. Its use is deliberately misleading.
From a very credible source I have an indication some pious believer chose to translate BT MR, byt omri, land of Omri, as Israel on the Taylor prism. I am searching for confirmation of this. If true what did he choose to interpret as Jerusalem and Hezekiah?
Sound bite reply.
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CONCLUSION
In the case of Jerusalem and Judah in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C.,archaeology speaks loud and clear: A) The expansion of the city to the southwestern hill and the settlement prosperity in the Judahite country-side did not start before the middle of the 8th century and reached their peak in the last third of that century.
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Humans as with every species increase their numbers to slightly greater than they can comfortably live. We have a higher population than we can feed. One of the controls of population is starvation. The less obvious control is malnourishment results in greater susceptibility to disease and such which causes early death. You can read about this in hundred places in many different forms. Nothing new here.
Now we have an increase in human population in a land which was already populated slightly above the carrying capacity of the land as is every place humans live.
If there was an increase in population then it was due to methods of increasing the food production of the land. There is no other possibility. A better plow, higher yield grain, more valuable things to grow for trade ... there are many possibilities.
But talking about 8th through 3rd c. is not in the running for being called rapid or sudden. It is more than sufficient time for a dozen improvements in farming to be discovered and spread including cheaper iron plows and opening trade routes for olive oil in exchange for grain.
There is absolutely no way in hell to connect this with Assyria.
I have found an incredible number of cases where the academic "experts" are unaware of the most elementary principles of other fields. Five centuries is not rapid for a species that can double in every generation if well fed.
I also point out Judahite is a bible based name for part of Palestine. Its use is deliberately misleading.
From a very credible source I have an indication some pious believer chose to translate BT MR, byt omri, land of Omri, as Israel on the Taylor prism. I am searching for confirmation of this. If true what did he choose to interpret as Jerusalem and Hezekiah?
