http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-j-col...75155.html
There is what is known among scholars as "the silly season" which arises in the wake of every textual find. Basically, nuts come out of the woodwork and declare that the latest find supports whatever biblical point of view they espouse. After archaeologists discovered the Ebla library all sorts of OT shitheads declared that it was about Sodom and Gomorrah and the "cities of the plain."
To wit:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/p...cfec84b68/
That includes people like Dripshit who leap at any piece of shit that someone dangles before his rather dim eyes.
The biggest problem with biblical scholars of the theistic type is that they never allow the evidence to speak for itself. They insist upon trying to shoehorn their bullshit into everything. That's fine for asswipes like Dripshit but normal people must be more reserved.
Quote: The area of scholarship that has suffered most from wild speculation is the relevance of the Scrolls for Christian origins. Within a few years of the discovery, claims were made that a figure called the Teacher of Righteousness in the Scrolls was crucified and believed to have risen from the dead. These claims were swiftly discredited, but revived in the 1990s by the British authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, in “The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception,” who claimed that the truth had been suppressed by a Vatican conspiracy. These claims have no basis.
There is what is known among scholars as "the silly season" which arises in the wake of every textual find. Basically, nuts come out of the woodwork and declare that the latest find supports whatever biblical point of view they espouse. After archaeologists discovered the Ebla library all sorts of OT shitheads declared that it was about Sodom and Gomorrah and the "cities of the plain."
To wit:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/p...cfec84b68/
Quote:Ebla Tablets: No Biblical Claims
Quote:When 11,000 clay tablets dating from 23 centuries before Christ were unearthed in northern Syria three years ago, biblical scholars around the world rejoiced that ancient proof had been found for the Old Testament.
"The tablets were being hailed as a find equal in importance to the Dead Sea Scrolls," said Dr. Robert Biggs, professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. "The claims being made for these tablets created a sensation in biblical circles."
But three years of intense study and debate among scholars changed all that. No longer are biblical claims made for the 11,000 clay tablets of Ebla, the ancient Sumerian city whose palace was destroyed by fire around 2300 B.C.
"In my opinion, parallels with the Bible are quite out of the question at this stage," Biggs told a recent gathering of science writers sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. "People who are looking to the Ebla tablets for proof of the authenticity of the Bible are going to be sorely disappointed."
That includes people like Dripshit who leap at any piece of shit that someone dangles before his rather dim eyes.
Quote:Widely reported two and three years ago were the stories of the flood and creation that were supposed to have been inscribed on the tablets of Ebla. The creation story now turns out to be four lines of poetry in which not a single word has been translated. The flood story has now been reduced to a single word translated as "water."
The biggest problem with biblical scholars of the theistic type is that they never allow the evidence to speak for itself. They insist upon trying to shoehorn their bullshit into everything. That's fine for asswipes like Dripshit but normal people must be more reserved.
