>>25126579
The issue with the Old Testament is that it’s tied to the biggest religion in the world (Christianity) and the most polarizing people group in the world (Jews) and thus can’t be appreciated as Middle Eastern literature the way Gilgamesh or the Shahnameh is

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>Reddit atheist meme that God is an asshole
>actually read the Old Testament
>God is incredibly forgiving and patient with Israel over and over
>the actual assholes are the Israelites who keep abandoning God to worship other shit

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>>25126585
Did you really think Reddit atheists actually read the books they claim ruined civilization?

>>25126579
oooh, a Patricia Crone enjoyer. Mega based. They might not even allow her shit to be read in the yookay these days.
"Slaves on Horses" was okay but her best book was the one she cowrote with Martin Hinds, "God's Caliph". "Nativists Prophets" was her best work she did on her own.

>>25126585
This the same God that Biblically commands Jews to slaughter every man, woman and child in Palestine so they can colonize it?

>>25126594
show me the verse, homo

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>>25126585
>Job
>Yahweh killing 50 children just because they teased his prophet about his bald head
>Noah
>Giving orders to jews to kill every single goy, and take their daughters as wives, and yes, that includes the little girls
>That one time Yahweh burned two kids alive in front of his father for accidentally messing a sacrifice in his name
you haven't read enough it seems

>>25126592
>Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Though virtually unknown in the non-Muslim world...
What is this shit? No they're not. Has this woman never heard of the neodamodeis? Volones?

>>25126608
>neodamodeis
Freed after a term of service. And you're assuming helots were slaves rather than serfs (and are relying on late sources).
>Volones
also manumitted

Neither of these apply to the "phenomenon" of the Muslim ruler instituting a soldiery of slaves who are NOT manumitted, but are the ruler's slaves in perpetuity. Thus given some protection against other moslems.