(July 20, 2014 at 7:55 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Tradition has it that Moses was the author.
I don't think his contract got renewed, though; he's only got one book to his credit.
Since there is no mention of Israel in the historical record until about 1400 bce - we can also call Moses another MYTH.
We already know that the story of the exodus has no support in the historical record - nor in archeology of the area. In addition - there is no mention of the Israelites in bondage to Egypt at that time - even though we have a complete list of those who were. Once could make a case for saying that Israel was too small to be on the list - but then that would make their numbers far less than claimed as well.
As far as the Adam and Eve fairy tale - and that IS all it is - it is not even an allegory as it shows little similarity to the actual evolution of humans on earth. WE know that there were human on earth LONG before the claimed creation of the earth in the bible - so the story of Adam and Eve is nonsense - and there was NO NEED to be saved - except to be saved from ancient religious myths that have no basis in fact.
