Mental flatliner wrote:spin wrote: Mental flatliner wrote:(I know! Try hitting the "add to cart" button. I think that's how I got it.)
Now that you have it, why not open it?
Once again, I caught you pretending knowledge you don't have, and these pathetic responses are all you have left.
As you have shown no sign of having read the book, you will continue to appear as ignorant as you first started on the topic of dating Genesis. Totally.
Mental flatliner wrote:I own the book and have read it twice. I can explain it in detail whenever you're ready. The analysis of the evidence begins by naming Uruk, Babel, Agade, and Susa as the core of the empire in it's infancy, as stated in Geneis 10:10.
The book then outlines the evidence of it's spread to Nineveh, Nimrud, Calah and Brak (as stated in Genesis 10:11-12[which says nothing about Brak]) and then it's cursory influence over cities along the Euphrates in Syria, such as Carchemish.
You still haven't responded meaningfully to the geographical indications found in the chapter. All the above is just you advocating naive literalism and saying you know nothing more.
Mental flatliner wrote:It's nothing short of miraculous that a Bronze Age writer could have known about this empire, buried under the sands for 6000 years.
Does one need to note the gullibility involved in the saying of the above?
Mental flatliner wrote:It's even more miraculous that the writer could correlate this evidence from 50 or more cities and villages with apparently modern skill and name the cities in the correct order in Genesis.
This claim is juyst banally wrongheaded.
Mental flatliner wrote:In fact, the author also didn't mention a wrong name, such as Jerusalem, Memphis, or Thebes. The author of Genesis confined himself to the facts.
Mostly from the 8th century BCE in Gen 10.
Mental flatliner wrote:But the author did let an anachronism slip in Genesis 11. He said the city of Babel was built with bricks using bitumen for morter. Bitumen is tar, a waterproofing agent. It was a totally needless ingredient in the deserts between the rivers. This indicates that the author of Genesis 11 was ONLY aware of the architectural strategies originating from Uruk (where cities were built in swamps and waterproofing was essential). The author was not aware of later 3rd millenium architecture of the Babylonians.
Still failed to grasp a city (Babylon) not built (before 2300BCE) when you claim Genesis was written (3500BCE) being included in the text. Your position is just plain cretinous.