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When Torah was first written is one question. When many tried to follow it is another question. One opinion (not necessarily matching mine): Jerusalem Post 'The Origins of Judaism': Finding how far back rabbinic tradition goes - review Prof. Yonatan Adler’s book provides proofs both for and against...

Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts...(2022) page 89: "....It follows that the proto-LXX _Vorlage_ for the Septuagint translation was the original text of the Pentateuch created circa 270 BCE...." That, plus other references to "authoritative copy,&...

fwiw, autendw has expressed an interest in returning after he does some more reading I got a different sense from his explicit mention of fatigue, aggravation and irritability. You are a mythicist though. Keep making up these stories. Er --- as I said, we have had friendly correspondence away from ...

Thanks for reminding me of the inevitable!

As far as I am aware no evidence has been shown to verify fourth century origins of Justin, Paul's letters, gospels, etc..... But those texts do bear the marks of the first 2 centuries of our era as surely as Dead Sea Scrolls bear the radiocarbon marks of the first couple of centuries before our er...

The backlash against anything that casts doubt on the biblical narrative -- It's called "zionist archaeology" ... https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2023/5/22/whats-driving-israeli-excavations-under-al-aqsa-mosque --- the determination to establish the "truth" of the ...

When Torah was first written is one question. When many tried to follow it is another question. One opinion (not necessarily matching mine): Jerusalem Post 'The Origins of Judaism': Finding how far back rabbinic tradition goes - review Prof. Yonatan Adler’s book provides proofs both for and against...

fwiw, autendw has expressed an interest in returning after he does some more reading -- what is particularly exhausting is the format where multiple questions can be set up with no easy way to address them all or the key ones, which was why I expressed an preference for starting a new thread focusin...

StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:31 am I may understand why austendw gave up participation in this thread.

austendw and I have had cordial correspondence away from and since this thread -- so what is it you wish to imply, SG?

you wouldn't be suggesting austendw was being dishonest with his explanation for his leaving, would you?

b) and was his failed attempt to be a good poet relevant to his banning poets from his fantasyland? omg, SG -- surely even you must know that what Plato objected to was the way the poets portrayed the gods, the immorality - he was not opposed to the techniques or arts of poetry at all. It is more c...