Quote:With regard to historical-critical research, what is the point of distinguishing canonical and non-canonical writings?
Canonical writings have a point of view they are pushing in regards to their subject matter, best expressed above as propagandistic.
Tell me, when Homer writes:
Quote:[43] So he spoke in prayer, and Phoebus Apollo heard him. Down from the peaks of Olympus he strode, angered at heart, bearing on his shoulders his bow and covered quiver. The arrows rattled on the shoulders of the angry god as he moved, and his coming was like the night. Then he sat down apart from the ships and let fly an arrow: terrible was the twang of the silver bow. The mules he assailed first and the swift dogs, but then on the men themselves he let fly his stinging shafts, and struck; and constantly the pyres of the dead burned thick.
do you apply the same standard or is it only for judeo-xtian nonsense?
