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by byblos
Tue Dec 21, 2021 8:19 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The Prophets vs Moses?
Replies: 10
Views: 2891

Re: The Prophets vs Moses?

An interesting aspect of the development of the Jewish scriptures, is that the Torah was certainly actually composed later than most of the works of the Prophets. However, the way the scriptures are presented, it is/was claimed that the Torah predated the Prophets. Moses and the Exodus story predat...
by byblos
Tue Dec 21, 2021 3:43 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The origin of the Adam/Eve story in Genesis
Replies: 7
Views: 2377

Re: The origin of the Adam/Eve story in Genesis

Back to the topic... What is known about potential sources for the story of Adam/Eve, Cain/Able? Are there parallels in Egyptian lore, Babylonian, Canaanite? Short answer? Primarily Egyptian mythology for Adam and Eve while Sumerian for Cain and Abel. Now on to the details. The 4 rivers of Eden ref...
by byblos
Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:48 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Genesis 1
Replies: 30
Views: 54658

Re: Genesis 1

Hermon has three summits, situated like the angles of a triangle that are about a quarter of a mile from each other. The mountain is shared by the countries of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. Mount Hermon has seasonal winter and spring snow falls, which cover all three of its peaks for most of the year...
by byblos
Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:08 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Order of writings in the Hebrew Bible
Replies: 1
Views: 8473

Re: Order of writings in the Hebrew Bible

Hi Andrew,

The "hard evidence" that I've seen is the authorship signatures of those who edited those books - Josiah's people in 2 Kings 22 (DH - Deuteronomist History).
They used what is known as Athbash in the texts. Check out the great work of Preston Kavanaugh.
by byblos
Wed May 16, 2018 9:36 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The Two Genesis Creation Stories
Replies: 24
Views: 50609

Re: The Two Genesis Creation Stories

I'll start with the second story. ... So God uses pre-existing material all the way. It's pre-existing material because the 7-day process already happened. ... That's shoehorning the two stories together. Something I find very implausible Why? Fusion is demonstrated in many parts of the Bible inclu...
by byblos
Wed May 16, 2018 8:44 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The Two Genesis Creation Stories
Replies: 24
Views: 50609

Re: The Two Genesis Creation Stories

I'll look at methods of creation more closely. Creation from nothing or creation from pre-existing material? I'll start with the second story. It starts with a barren land with water as a mist above it or else as springs in it and streams on it (translations vary). God creates Adam from dust and br...
by byblos
Wed May 16, 2018 7:26 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Solomon's Gold
Replies: 8
Views: 13405

Re: Solomon's Gold

This is where Solomon's gold ended up: 1 Kings 14: 25 Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and he took everything, even taking all th...
by byblos
Fri May 11, 2018 9:38 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The Two Genesis Creation Stories
Replies: 24
Views: 50609

Re: The Two Genesis Creation Stories

The Queen of Heaven is most likely the effeminate form of Jehovah, note the that name יהוה is feminine by default, this is why Lexicons won't disclose the gender, but it matches with ἰοῦν ( IO ) and Daphne . In Fact the histories of Herodotus begins with the Phoenicians entering Egypt with IO. Here...
by byblos
Fri May 11, 2018 9:36 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The Two Genesis Creation Stories
Replies: 24
Views: 50609

Re: The Two Genesis Creation Stories

The two parts of Genesis were written by the same person ... The two Genesis stories are stylistically very different. They also have different subject matter, different ways of creating, differemt amounts of orderliness, etc. Even God's level of happiness differs. In the first one, God creates not...
by byblos
Fri May 04, 2018 8:08 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The Two Genesis Creation Stories
Replies: 24
Views: 50609

Re: The Two Genesis Creation Stories

The authors of Genesis were Phoenicians, they didn't need to borrow ideas from an alien culture, it was already part of mainland Phoenician culture and the story in Gen 1-2 is very specific too Lebanon. But we cannot ignore the similarities between Jeremiah 4 and the creation story. The author of G...