Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Like many topics, the subject is thoroughly politicized, and bias is an issue for most people involved, perhaps all. But bias doesn't yield evidence one way or the other. It's the most tiresome of arguments because it doesn't prove anything and applies to almost everything that people argue about. ...

On the contrary, you refuse to acknowledge that certain conceptions about the Bible are wrong, even when they have been demonstrated to be so. No such demonstration has ever been made. Christians set a high standard for honesty, but you don't. Jesus said to Pilate, "All who love the truth are ...

Why is it not believable? Explained above. Read it this time. "but I would appreciate it if you would think a bit" Built into this comment is a condescension derived from anti-Christian bias. You're not even close to my league when it comes to knowledge of scripture and history, and you h...

Try to make sense. With only a dozen functioning brain cells, you seem to be easy to lose. I'll refresh your memory: The OP seeks another translation of Josephus based on the fallacious assumption that Whiston is a bad translation. (Obviously this person hasn't read Josephus and discovered his typi...

Ambiguity in the Sumerian language explains the rib connection, an ambiguity not available in Hebrew, so you get the ultimately tenuous creation of Eve from the rib without any justifiable reason in the Jewish version. What's the wind doing in the story in Gen 1:2?? You can't understand from the Je...

An excerpt to whet yee appetite, or pull your tail up between yee legs. I'm not sure M.F. has the balls for historical textual analysis. Probably has the faintest idea of what this means, I reckon from the spittle that's so far cometh forth from his mouth. And God said: “Let there be lights in the ...

Mental, for the record, I am not a Bible hater (I've been devoutly Catholic all my life and I love the Bible), however, I still think the word "trolling" best describes what you're doing. It has nothing to do with one's opinion on the Bible. Your caim is not believable. You show open host...

You gave examples that allegedly show some vague similarities with parts of Genesis but not with Genesis 1. The link you give for Genesis 11 - (Tower of Babel) is titled How grain came to Sumer. This is crap, it's nothing like the story, but who cares its not what we were discussing. You claimed th...

You have overlooked the general comment. You have introduced nothing to support your claim. The connections you note are old hat, as Kramer shows and if you looked at Kramer you'd see that despite it being aimed at a popular audience he supplies primary sources, translated by himself. And you can g...

Shit, you could have just bought Kramer's "History Begins at Sumer" if you wanted to provide sources for biblical stories. The onus is on you to show that that these stories weren't passed down through the Mesopotamian literary traditions and eventually received by the Jews, not just rehe...