(October 11, 2012 at 9:43 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:(October 11, 2012 at 12:49 am)IATIA Wrote: My bold
There is a multitude of examples of omnipotence (impotence maybe?) like this. One would think their babble-god could come up with something better?
The so-called "Israelites" weren't that bright at the time of writing? After all is said and done...nothing in the Pentateuch or Talmud are original. ALL stolen from Babylonian / Sumerian, Persian and Canaanite culture.
Seriously couldn't think of anything original
Actually, history DOES furnish an example of "Jewish" rule over what was essentially the Davidic Empire. Unfortunately for the bible-thumpers it was c 102 BC under the Hasmonean Dynasty.
Once you dismiss the idea that this shit was written by bronze age goat fuckers and instead bring it well down into the Hellenistic era the political situation it describes starts to fall into place.