RE: Without citing the bible, what marks the bible as the one book with God's message?
January 4, 2013 at 7:01 am
(January 4, 2013 at 6:17 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Also, it is for everyone. That's how it applies to me. The OT happened to be revealed to the Jews. We have to do our best to understand the archaic cultural references.
Unfortunately, the joke is on the Jews. The entire OT was a work of fiction according to the The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts- Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Neil Asher Silberman, a contributing editor to Archaeology Magazine.
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