(July 29, 2010 at 2:52 am)padraic Wrote: Judaism was not monotheistic until well after the alleged exodus.IE it was NOT monotheistic when Moses or whoever stole many of the commandments from the Hammurabic code.
As I stated earlier, the whole Judaic religion was born in Babylon. The Babylonians brought the religion well packaged to create acceptance amongst the Palestinians (Philistines) who converted to it. It had the double effect of also making the converted Palestinians (who called themselves Jews) fight against the non-converted Palestinians for the benefit of the Babylonians. The converted Palestinians now believed that their mythological forefather Abraham was born in Ur, Babylon (modern day Iraq). That meant to them that the Babylonians were related to them and that the rest of their own people (Philistines) were really their enemies.
The Torah was written in Aramaic, the language spoken by the Babylonians. That language is still spoken by the Assyrians and Kaldanis (Caldeans in the Bible) of Iraq. Of course, the Hammurabic code, which was Babylonian, was an integral part of the philosophy of that religion, which included the “eye for an eye" system of justice.
