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All this a god not a god and such is a subset of the issue Julian the Apostate raised over the messengers, aka angels, in Against the Galileans, aka Christians maybe. In his terms, the teachings of Moses are silent on their generation which is where we might say creation. As he is taking the teachin...

Taking Judea as merely a Romanized Greek form of Judah, Tiglath-Pileser III refers to tribute from Azriau of Iuda circa 735 BCE (see eg Pritchard, ANET, p.282). The name Azriau is an Akkadian representation of Azariah aka Uzziah. Sennacherib has left an account of the siege of Jerusalem while Hezek...

Elephantine, the Passover papyrus King Darius orders a Passover to be held and gives conditions for its observance and the dates of observance. There is no indication is it an annual affair. The plain reading, absent the discredited OT, is that Passover is an occasional Persian observance. This is a...

The Judahite related papyri are written in Aramaic. This is from the 5th c. of Herodotus in the region of bibleland. After him Alexander and all the Greeks. After then Pompey and all the Romans. And still not a single mention of any "hebrew" language, spoken or written. From archaeology we...

The Elephantine Papyri are something that should be read before referencing. If they are to be accepted then we do not get to pick and choose among their contents. Sufficient fundamental information about "jews" under whatever name is shown to be false that there is no credible intellectua...

One issue raised was there was obviously a Yahu cult in Ugarit due to that god name being found in the library. So of course they were also Jews. They were polytheists just like the ones at Elephantine who also worshiped Yahu. The response was, they did not have a cultural claim on Jerusalem. The id...

Despite mouse not accepting opinions from noted experts or people with 3 digit IQs - http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10950-monotheism The doctrine of absolute monotheism is preached in the most emphatic manner by Jeremiah (x. 10; xiv. 22; xxiii. 36; xxxii. 18, 27) and the Deuteronomist(i...

You're a physicist right? Scientific method? Gathering data? Forming a hypothesis? Designing an experiment? Testing the predictions of the hypothesis? Completing the loop, as necessary? Data gathering: Spin does this, so thank spin. Original hypothesis : no 'Yahu cult' before 2nd century BCE. Exper...

As the issue is the OT and the definition of Jew as in the OT the suggestion of polytheists who worshiped Yahu as one of many in both Elaphantine and Ugarit is not evidence of that OT cult in bibleland. Yahu and Ashara jointly worshiped is not the OT Yahu cult. Therefore the OT is false by the evide...

To my last add Yahu was worshiped by the people of Ugarit so they also were Jews? They like the folks at Elephantine were polytheists and even worshiped Ashara? How does one include Elephantine but exclude Ugarit? Or does one include Ugarit? A slim similarity is not the same as. That point is releva...