EdHieron said:
Here are a few links to help you come out of your cloud of ignorance: On How Yahweh was based on earlier Gods from the Mesopotamian and Egyptian regions: http://www.karenlyster.com/sitchina.html (note: I definitely don't come to the same conclusions as Sitchin but he does a good job of demonstration how the earlier Sumerian religion influenced the later Hebrew one's conception of its God). On The J author -- the original author of the Torah that invented Yahweh from a hodgepodge of the earlier Gods of that region ( http://www.thesatirist.com/books/BookOfJ.html ) On the Documentary Hypothesis and further elaboration upon how The Torah was conceived (before it's completion four other authors or schools of authors were instrumental in bringing The Bible to its final form (The E author that felt that the J author was wrong in only having one of the gods in her version of the Bible and the later three groups of priestly authors that brought The Bible back to including only one God as it's easier to control the populace when they're only following one God and following the example of ancient Egypt knew that if you could control a populace's beliefs then you could control their actions added most of the laws that are included in The Old Testament) Wellhausen -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wellhausen Massey -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey On The Documentary Hypothesis of the construction of The Torah -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis
Next time due a bit of study and research so that you won't be so surprised when a new idea to you that you consider to be ignorant actually turns out to be true. |
Worth noting too that Talmudic law bears more than a passing resemblance to other ancient near eastern laws. I'm not going to be so bold as to suggest that it was all made up deliberately, but they were certainly drawing on cultural commonalities more than they were drawing on the word of Yahweh
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