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Yeah - its like say the illiad. Did the trojan war happen exactly like that? Obviously not. Was there some big war that inspired it? Probably. Like, you should
by bawolff 3y ago
Yeah - its like say the illiad. Did the trojan war happen exactly like that? Obviously not. Was there some big war that inspired it? Probably.
Like, you shouldn't take the events of the bible literally, but you could probably reasonably infer that the nations demonized in it probably were historical enemies of the people who wrote it, etc
- Tuna-Fish 3y agoThe problem with this thinking is that many of the "early" books of the Bible appear to be written much later than the "later" books, and while they are probably a record of the attitudes of the writers, they record their attitudes as of the time they were written, not as of the time period the claim to represent.