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minus-squareSalamanderwizard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoI always took the Bible as a lot of bullshit. I never really gave any thoughts to scholars picking it apart. That’s pretty cool to think about.
minus-squareGrail@multiverse.soulism.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoHere’s a fun fact: Some scholars believe Genesis 1 is a later addition than the rest of the story, because Judaism was originally polytheistic.
minus-squareEinskjaldi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoIt mentions Baal, in a way that’s more concerned than it needs to be.
minus-squareDeacon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoCorrect, and fundamentally you don’t make laws to prohibit something nobody is doing. A few different gods had to get rationalized or syncretized in one way or another as I understand it. Not only Baal but that pesky Asherah and her complicated and inconvenient situationship with YHWH.
I always took the Bible as a lot of bullshit. I never really gave any thoughts to scholars picking it apart. That’s pretty cool to think about.
Here’s a fun fact: Some scholars believe Genesis 1 is a later addition than the rest of the story, because Judaism was originally polytheistic.
It mentions Baal, in a way that’s more concerned than it needs to be.
Correct, and fundamentally you don’t make laws to prohibit something nobody is doing.
A few different gods had to get rationalized or syncretized in one way or another as I understand it.
Not only Baal but that pesky Asherah and her complicated and inconvenient situationship with YHWH.