Hebrew Bible or Old Testament consist of many books, all of them revolves around tales and events concentrated around a small landscape with very little Population called Israel. OT has 3 divisions namely - Torah, Nabium & Kethubim, and using their first letter are called TANAK usually.
During Jesus days only two portions were complete and he tells Law (Torah) and Prophets (Nabium) several times and Jesus said all things are Over this is End when Messiah comes after Elijah.
Ketubim means Writings were added later than Jesus.
Renowned American Theologian Henry O Thompson "Authority, The Bible, Who Needs it"(ISPCK -1994) makes very clear
Bible Tales gives number of Outsiders who migrated to Canaan.
If we take a family of 5, total population with wife and children would make 6,26,550 x 5 =31,32,750 + Cattle travelled for 40 years in the Desert.
Deuteronomy 9:1 “Listen, you Israelites! You will go across the Jordan River today. You will go into that land to force out nations greater and stronger than you. Their cities are big and have walls as high as the sky!
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Countries & Races of Canaan
Genesis 15: 18 So on that day the Lord made a promise and an agreement with Abram. He said, “I will give this land to your descendants. I will give them the land between the River of Egypt and the great river Euphrates. 19 This is the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
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10 different races or country people with more population means
30 x 10 = 3 Crore population in Israel when Moses must have come, even seeing some of them are smaller around 2 Crore population.
DAVID's Country Population.
1 Chronicles 21:5 ... In Israel there were 1,100,000 men who could use a sword. And there were 470,000 men in Judah who could use a sword. 6 Joab did not count the tribes of Levi and Benjamin because he did not like King David’s order.
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WEALTH OF DAVID.
1 Chronicles 22:14 David said "Solomon, I have worked hard making plans for building the Lord’s Temple. I have given 3750 tons of gold and about 37,500 tons of silver. I have given so much bronze and iron that it cannot be weighed. And I have given wood and stone. Solomon, you can add to them.
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ANY Person with reasoning could understand the foolish statement of the above, 3000 years back.
Bible tales are dated with few reference like this as BIBLE has no meaningful truth in it.
Bible tales are dated with few reference like this as BIBLE has no meaningful truth in it.
1 Kings 6:1So in the month of Ziv, the second month of the year, during Solomon’s fourth year as king, he began work on the Temple. This was 480 years after the Israelites left Egypt. |
King Solomon is dated to BCE 970-930, i.e., Tales of Moses belong to 15th Century BCE.
BIBLE TALES Itself give when LAW Was FABRICATED IN Few times.
IF KING & PEOPLE TORE Means an unknown book is now newly found
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Another TALE Tells EZRA COMPOSED THE TORAH. UNKNOWN Law read first time.
Nehemiah 8:1 So all the Israelites met together in the seventh month of the year. They were united and in complete agreement. They all met together in the open place in front of the Water Gate. All the people asked Ezra the teacher to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had given to the Israelites. 2 So Ezra the priest brought the law before those who had met together. This was on the first day of the month. It was the seventh month of the year. Men, women, and anyone old enough to listen and understand were at the meeting. 3 Ezra read in a loud voice from the Book of the Law from early morning until noon. He was facing the open place that was in front of the Water Gate. He read to all the men and women, and to everyone old enough to listen and understand. All the people listened carefully and paid attention to the Book of the Law.
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Archaeology says Jerusalem remained in Ruins till early 2nd century- entire Ezra -Nehemiah story are TALES- BUT When they were composed is the actual time.
//In the years, 539 – 333 BCE, the Persian empire was dominant and it was in this period that Judaism consolidated as a religion based on the Bible.
Authoritative tradition which appears to suggest that Ezra, a priest and scribe from Babylon was an agent of Persian Government in establishing the Torah as the nation law of Judeans in Judea and Syria. He was either a contemporary of Nehemiah in the mid 5th Century BCE or lived a century later .. Nothing outside the Bilbe adds anything of Historical value to the Picture of Moses.// Lions Hand book of Religions ; page- 280
Many laws in the Pentateuch or Torah, the first five books were not different from those of the surrounding nations. “ page- 238, Vol.3, Grolier’s Encyclopedia.
“Although there was no canonization of a complete tradition text until late 2nd century CE, no change was made in the basic structure of the Pentateuch and Historical books after the 3rd or 2nd Century BCE” . Pictorial Biblical Encyclopedia; Page -173.
//”The OT Genealogies are mostly the work of the Pentateuchal Priestly writer in the Persian Period from 6th to 4th Century BCE. .. Some such as Genesis Chapters 4-5 have parellels in Babylonian Literature”.// New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol-6, Page 319
Authoritative tradition which appears to suggest that Ezra, a priest and scribe from Babylon was an agent of Persian Government in establishing the Torah as the nation law of Judeans in Judea and Syria. He was either a contemporary of Nehemiah in the mid 5th Century BCE or lived a century later .. Nothing outside the Bilbe adds anything of Historical value to the Picture of Moses.// Lions Hand book of Religions ; page- 280
Many laws in the Pentateuch or Torah, the first five books were not different from those of the surrounding nations. “ page- 238, Vol.3, Grolier’s Encyclopedia.
“Although there was no canonization of a complete tradition text until late 2nd century CE, no change was made in the basic structure of the Pentateuch and Historical books after the 3rd or 2nd Century BCE” . Pictorial Biblical Encyclopedia; Page -173.
//”The OT Genealogies are mostly the work of the Pentateuchal Priestly writer in the Persian Period from 6th to 4th Century BCE. .. Some such as Genesis Chapters 4-5 have parellels in Babylonian Literature”.// New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol-6, Page 319
As per 2 Maccabees 6:1 there was a TEMPLE for "god of Israel - lord yahweh" in Mt.Gerzim.
2 Maccabees 6:1 Not long after this, the king sent an Athenia senator to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their fathers and cease to live by the laws of God, 2 and also to pollute the temple in Jerusalem and call it the temple of Olympian Zeus, and to call the one in Geri′zim the temple of Appollos Zeus the Friend of Strangers.... |
As per 2 Maccabees 6:1- BOOKS OF BIBLE WERE COMPOSED ONLY THEN.
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JESUS Believed Tales of Moses giving Law
Mark 10:3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.” 5 But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ |
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