Sooo, is this thing actually historically accurate or what?
>>18551571No, it was written as palingenetic propaganda by Jews under Babylonian captivity. Imagine that the nazis kept existing inside post war West Germany and that they started a religion that taught that there was going to come an Aryan god king who would free the oppressed nazis from neoliberal rule and that constructed an entire alternate history of germany where the aryans had escaped ancient captivity and migrated to germany where they genocided the natives there only to fall out of power when they didnt worship aryan god good enough anymore. That’s literally what the old testament is. And don’t get me started on the new.
>>18551571like all things in life, it gets some things right and some things wrong
>>18551571Went the Torah was given to man, all of heaven grumbled and complained that flesh and blood did not deserve to have such knowledge. And fools on earth despise it not know the undeserved treasure that has been given to us.We have been allowed to become rigtheous so that we don't have to die and can live forever.
>>18552094We have been allowed to understand rigtheousness so that we don't have to live in sin and reap the reward that sin deserves, which is death.We have been allowed to become like them, knowing good and evil yet live forever.We have been granted becoming holy.
>>18551571That's the wrong question to ask because it's a collection of different books written for different purposes, so each book needs to be interpreted individually based on the author's intent. If a book was intended to tell spiritual/metaphysical truths rather than historical truths then that makes it pointless to evaluate the historicity.
>>18552094ye
>>18551571Jordan B. Peterson says the Bible functions as a prerequisite for the manifestation of truth itself. Consequently, without the Bible, historical accuracy in the true sense of the word could not exist.
>>18552348>Jordan B. Peterson says the Bible functions as a prerequisite for the manifestation of truth itself.He doesn't say this>Consequently, without the Bible, historical accuracy in the true sense of the word could not exist.This is both false as well as very retarded.
Not even ancient Jews thought OT is a literal historical chronicle. If you're a literalist you're less educated than a BC person. t. Christian
>>18551571Yes sir this actually happened anon
>>18552399Give one single quote or you're a nigger faggot
>>18551571No. KJV and other protestant version defer to the Masoretic Text (600-900 AD) over the Septuagint (300 BC). Notice the dates here, MT was written after almost 1000 years of seething about Jesus.
>>18551571What do you consider history?
>>18552892The correct understanding of this passage is even worse for modern readers. They were in a hurry to get to egypt and moses needed to do gods work. So zipporah cut the forskin off their son and touched moses' egyptian-styled circumcision with the skin thus sanctifying him. Father son skin to skin.
>>18551571Kinda the wrong question but it is fascinating what lines up with the scriptures along with our historical records today.Heres bruce gore's series on this with needed context: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYFBLkHop2alFacrvkn2qtR3y1D2fQmad&si=paDbvmZ4JLjApjvP
>>18551571Yes. Pharoah Ramses II was killed by a giant column of water collapsing on him as he was leading his army.
>>18551571Parts of it are just clearly mythological, of no historical value.The historical parts are the official version of events from a small iron age kingdom, so it has elements of truth, but is also laughably biased and propagandistic. Still, a lot of the time the other Ancient Near Eastern sources aren't much better (apart from which country/god they shill) so it's still useful as a source.
>>18553344It's "biased and propagandistic" to continually paint your people as complete fuck ups?
>>18553356it's biased and propagandistic to frame it the fuck ups as being a result of worshipping other gods and not doing the things that the authors tell you to do. the deuteronomist clearly thinks the babylonian exile was caused by israelites worshipping other gods.
>>18554002It literally says at points that any of the militarily successful judges who presided over a stable Israel only did so via being morally pure and upright and any time Babylonians/ Moabites/ Philistines invaded it was because Israel was ruled by pagans at the time.
>>18551571Yeah, the eye transplantations, faster-than-light teleportations, human-animal soul transferrence, zombie uprisings, space alien invasions, and so on definitely happened.
