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Postby Andy » Nov 8, 2003 @ 10:28pm

So you understand that the Jewish god is an amalgamation of Mesopotamian, Canaan, Assyrian, and Persian gods?
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Postby Brig » Nov 9, 2003 @ 1:43am

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Postby sandmann » Nov 9, 2003 @ 7:25am

The fates lead him who will;
Him who won't, they drag.

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Postby Andy » Nov 9, 2003 @ 8:05am

Not just some people; virtually every piece of literature I've seen on the topic backs this. Here's a few:
"World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present" - Parrinder

"The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel" - Smith & Miller

I've not even gotten into the more contreversial aspects of Hebraism. It is well known that into the first century AD, ritual and sacrifice played a huge part of early Hebraism. And this system might have gone on quite a while longer had the Romans not razed the Temple of Jerusalem around 70 AD.

Many of the most-knowledgable people in this field also suspect that even children were sacrificed on occasion. And there is archeological evidence that supports their claims. Your local rabbi would probably not be so hot about conceding this possibility.

Ask any rabbi about the feats of the tannaim. They standardized the relativly loose collection of believes into something like what we'd call Judaism now.
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Postby James S » Nov 9, 2003 @ 6:42pm

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Postby Caesar » Nov 9, 2003 @ 11:23pm

Organic Superlube? Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it, though--it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets.
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Postby sandmann » Nov 10, 2003 @ 12:27am

It was perfectly inactive until you resurrected it.

Also, the main arguments stopped pages ago.
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