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Matt Giwer - 03 Jul 2009 06:12 GMT
    This is all the OT has to say about Ur. These are from Genesis. These are
also from the King James Version using the English construction and spellings
of centuries ago. Note while Chaldees and Chaldeans are both used no
distinction is made between them. Obviously no archaeological information was
known in those days.

Genesis

11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in
Ur of the Chaldees.

11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai;
and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of
Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son,
and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with
them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came
unto Haran, and dwelt there.

11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah
died in Haran.

15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

15:8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit
it?

15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she
goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a
young pigeon.

=====

    From these mentions there is nothing special about Ur of the Chaldees. There
is also ZERO information about either the city or the people.

    But some nerfbrains are declaring the Chaldees were mystics. To examine that
assertion we look at IKings. We discover they attacked and invaded bibleland.

I Kings

24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of
the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of
Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.

25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night
by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's
garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the
king went the way toward the plain.

25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook
him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from
him.

25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon
to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out
the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried
him to Babylon.

25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is
the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon,
unto Jerusalem: 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the
king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's
house burnt he with fire.

25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of
the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

    Warrior mystics anyone? Mystic warriors is already used by some video game.

    But there is no way anyone would have heard about the Chaldeans? Yet their
own magic book (stupidly) claims the following.

Ezra

5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath,
he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the
Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

    There they are, right? So where does this mystic nonsense come from?

Daniel

2:2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the
astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the
king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

2:3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit
was troubled to know the dream.

2:4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for
ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the
interpretation.

2:5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone
from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the
interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses
shall be made a dunghill.

5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet,
and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation
concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

5:30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

    So we have Nebuchadnezzar king and Chaldean who order Chaldeans to explain a
dream and they have, rather had, their own king. Again the mystic king is
taken so we have to go with King of the Mystics.

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Martin Edwards - 03 Jul 2009 17:20 GMT
>     This is all the OT has to say about Ur. These are from Genesis.
> These are also from the King James Version using the English
[quoted text clipped - 119 lines]
> explain a dream and they have, rather had, their own king. Again the
> mystic king is taken so we have to go with King of the Mystics.

I am not sure exactly what point you are making, but the Greek has
Khaldaioi in each case.  I am at a loss to see why the Jacobean
translators "modernized" as it were, the term in (putatively) later
books.  Perhaps one of the many posters who know so much more than
either of us can enlighten me.
Christopher Ingham - 03 Jul 2009 18:09 GMT
> >     This is all the OT has to say about Ur. These are from Genesis.
> > These are also from the King James Version using the English
[quoted text clipped - 127 lines]
>
> - Show quoted text -

This is what James H. Platt says in_The Oxford Companion to the Bible_
(1993), s.v. "Ur of the Chaldeans":

"The homeland of Abraham and the starting point of his migration to
Canaan (Gen. 11.28.31; 15.7; Neh. 9.7), Ur of the Chaldeans (AV:
Chaldees) is traditionally identified with the southern Mesopotamian
site Tell el-Muqayyar, on the Euphrates River.  The site was
systematically excavated from 1922 to 1934 by Sir Leonard Woolley.
Among his discoveries were the ziggurat constructed by Ur-nammu, the
founder of the Ur III Dynasty, in the late third millenium BCE and, in
the royal cemetery, the burial of queen Pu-abi, whose grave had never
been robbed.

"The identification of 'Ur of the Chaldees' with Tell el-Muqayyar is
not universally accepted.  Some scholars have suggested that it is
Urfa (Edessa), while others have proposed a connection with a city
named Ura.  It has also been suggested that Ur in his context may
reflect the generic Sumerian word for city, URU; note that in the
Septuagint 'Ur of the Chaldeans' is translated 'land of the
Chaldeans' (cf. Acts 7.4).

"The Chaldeans were a group of five tribes who became dominant in
Babylonia during the late sixth century BCE.  They are not mentioned
by name in any source before the ninth century, which makes the phrase
'Ur of the Chaldeans' relatively late [i.e., anachronistic - CI]."

Christopher Ingham
ADR - 03 Jul 2009 19:57 GMT
On Jul 3, 10:09 am, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> > >     This is all the OT has to say about Ur. These are from Genesis.
> > > These are also from the King James Version using the English
[quoted text clipped - 155 lines]
>
> Christopher Ingham

Christofer,

This actually jives quite well with the Bible having been compiled/
rewritten sometime in the 6th century.

But the connection of Abraham with lower Mesopotamia is, to say the
least, perplexing and probably a mythical explanation of the fact that
the Judeans (Jews/Hebrews) had a long tradition of regarding
themselves late arrivals into Palestine. Why would otherwise a God (or
the God) promise Canaan to a person from southern Mesopotamia??  It is
a little bizarre to me.  In a variety of ethnogenesis myths, the
"founding fathers" are locals.  This reinforces the claim to the land,
if anything.
Christopher Ingham - 03 Jul 2009 21:31 GMT
> On Jul 3, 10:09 am, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 174 lines]
>
> - Show quoted text -

Maybe it was a way for a humble people to graft on to themselves the
ancestry of those from a more developed and prestigious culture.  Or
perhaps it was one of the more persistent of several origins legends
preserved in oral histories.

Christopher Ingham
ADR - 03 Jul 2009 23:17 GMT
On Jul 3, 1:31 pm, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> > On Jul 3, 10:09 am, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 181 lines]
>
> Christopher Ingham

No doubt, it was preserved from older oral histories but it is
certainly peculiar.  If anything, despite the addition of a God, it
weakens the case for legitimate occupation of the specific land we are
discussing about.  If, as some wackos here suggest, the Pentateuch was
nothing more and nothing else than a nice story written by an
unidentified author in the 1st century BCE to "provide legitimacy of
occupation", writing about a group of outsiders that conquered a given
land, even with the encouragement of a God, would have been defeating
the said purpose.  Had I 've been given this assignment and making
everything from whole cloth, I would certainly have written about a
founder who was local and prevailed with the assistance of God.  The
document, as written, presents the picture of an external marauding
group that engages in brutal conquest with the encouragement of
"their" God.  This would hardly have managed to elicit sympathy or
legitimacy in the Hellenistic world.

The Bible, as written, is clearly directed to "insiders" rather than
"outsiders" and it was mostly an "ethnogenesis tool" utilizing by a
priesthood in Jerusalem in fashioning a cohesive ethnic group from the
late 6th century onwards (and probably with the encouragement of the
Persian authorities).  There is little doubt that the Babylonian
conquest and destruction of the kingdom of Judah had left in place an
aimless and un-affiliated Hebrew speaking population in the hills and
valleys of Palestine which the Persian installed priesthood eventually
molded into the Hebrews with the Bible and the Temple as the main
organs for this attempt. For the Bible to have been successful in its
goal (and it was), it had to incorporate and also amplify oral and
written stories prevalent in the population, organize this
information  in a cohesive narrative and affiliate it with a deity.  I
think that the high priests achieved their goal admirably well.  They
introduced the main deity far more frequently in pieces set in early
times as to legitimize them.  Thus God, who speaks quite often in the
Pentateuch, seems to be quite silent in later Kings and needs
Prophets.  Interesting approach and one that worked.
Matt Giwer - 04 Jul 2009 02:02 GMT
...
> No doubt, it was preserved from older oral histories but it is
> certainly peculiar.  If anything, despite the addition of a God, it
> weakens the case for legitimate occupation of the specific land we are
> discussing about.  If, as some wackos here suggest, the Pentateuch was
> nothing more and nothing else than a nice story written by an
> unidentified author in the 1st century BCE

    As opposed to an unidentified author in the 6th c.? Please explain the
difference.

> to "provide legitimacy of
> occupation", writing about a group of outsiders that conquered a given
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> "their" God.  This would hardly have managed to elicit sympathy or
> legitimacy in the Hellenistic world.

    As I have pointed out very many times, conquest has been the only basis for a
right to rule from the beginning of recorded history until some time in the
latter half of the 20th c. Indigenous peoples were not considered to have any
rights until the latter half of the 20th c.

> The Bible, as written, is clearly directed to "insiders" rather than
> "outsiders" and it was mostly an "ethnogenesis tool" utilizing by a
> priesthood in Jerusalem in fashioning a cohesive ethnic group from the
> late 6th century onwards (and probably with the encouragement of the
> Persian authorities).

    One might expect you and your ilk to have at least a fleeting knowledge of
the New Testament. How does on reconcile ethnic cohesion and the parable of
the good Samaritan? Do not forget to address our knowledge of the Samarian
religion in your response.

    To put it simply, there is no evidence of any ethnic cohesion in Palestine.
We know for certain the religion described in the OT was not the religion of
the people, not even of Jerusalem with its temples to both Astarte and Yahweh,
her's lasting into the early 2nd c. AD.

> There is little doubt that the Babylonian
> conquest and destruction of the kingdom of Judah

    As you know there is no evidence of any such conquest.

> had left in place an
> aimless and un-affiliated Hebrew speaking population

    As you know there is no evidence any population ever spoke Hebrew.

> in the hills and
> valleys of Palestine which the Persian installed priesthood eventually
> molded into the Hebrews with the Bible and the Temple as the main
> organs for this attempt.

    As you know there is no evidence of any Babylonian involvement or interest in
exporting any religion.

> For the Bible to have been successful in its
> goal (and it was), it had to incorporate and also amplify oral and
> written stories prevalent in the population, organize this
> information  in a cohesive narrative and affiliate it with a deity.

    Yet you keep reminding me it is not a cohesive narrative. And I keep pointing
out to you it is much more gibberish than you are willing to admit.

> I
> think that the high priests achieved their goal admirably well.

    You take Astarte's temple in Jerusalem as evidence of success? You keep
refusing to deal with the fact that we know the religion of bibleland was not
as it is portrayed in either the old or new testaments.

> They
> introduced the main deity far more frequently in pieces set in early
> times as to legitimize them.  Thus God, who speaks quite often in the
> Pentateuch, seems to be quite silent in later Kings and needs
> Prophets.  Interesting approach and one that worked.

    Failed miserably in light of what we know the religion was really like.

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ADR - 04 Jul 2009 06:37 GMT
> ...
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>         As opposed to an unidentified author in the 6th c.? Please explain the
> difference.

The "author/compiler" is unidentified only in your feverish brain.
Check it out and find out his name.

> > to "provide legitimacy of
> > occupation", writing about a group of outsiders that conquered a given
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> latter half of the 20th c. Indigenous peoples were not considered to have any
> rights until the latter half of the 20th c.

Well, you are mistaken.  In fact, the Greek mythology clearly conceals
the Greek conquest and enlists a continued occupation of the land and
a continuity between Gods and humans.  In fact, you have to peal a few
layers from the Greek mythology to uncover the elements of conquest
(the hybrid myths). No group ever asserted rigths to anybody else on
the basis of conquest.  What was the jury????  The conquered either
accepted the conquest or perished.  A new conqueror could dispose of
the old conqueror any way he/she pleased.  These stories were
organizing myths originate for and by the aristocracy (ordinary humans
have little say in the Iliad and the songs were sung at the megara of
the powerful) to create ruling legitimacy.  The Bible is just such an
organ.  Conquest had to be explained in divine terms (because memories
of it persisted) but it was the divine will and those that served it
(the Pharisees and the Saduccees and the high priests) who benefited
from it.

> > The Bible, as written, is clearly directed to "insiders" rather than
> > "outsiders" and it was mostly an "ethnogenesis tool" utilizing by a
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> the good Samaritan? Do not forget to address our knowledge of the Samarian
> religion in your response.

Ethnic cohesion?  What does ethnic cohesion have to do with anything?
Was the gulf between the Samaritans and orthodox Hebrews any more
severe than the gulf between the Protestants and the Catholics in
France and in Germany (I would contest exactly the opposite).  If
Jesus is an example par excellence of many millennial preachers in the
1st century CE Palestine, this division was not that severe and
certainly not ethnic.

>         To put it simply, there is no evidence of any ethnic cohesion in Palestine.
> We know for certain the religion described in the OT was not the religion of
> the people, not even of Jerusalem with its temples to both Astarte and Yahweh,
> her's lasting into the early 2nd c. AD.

Why are you mistaking religion and ethnic cohesion?  These two notions
are separate and most people can make this distinction easily enough
and they made it through history.  First of all, the Bible itself is
hardly silent about Astarte and the fact that her worship lasted for
at least 400 years until the temples were destroyed by king Josiah
(shortly before the Egyptian and then the Babylonian conquest).  There
is little doubt, despite the hieratic claims in the Bible, that Judah
and Israel were kingdoms in which many religions flourished.  Now, my
guess is that the temple to Astarte that was destroyed by Constantine
was built some time after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus as it
is unlikely that it would have existed under the severe Hasmonean rule
or the very religiously charged period of the Herodean rule.  Herod
himself was very careful to tiptoe around a profusion of zealots.

> > There is little doubt that the Babylonian
> > conquest and destruction of the kingdom of Judah
>
>         As you know there is no evidence of any such conquest.

Oh, shut up.  Lots of evidence was presented to you.  You simply bury
your head in the sand.

> > had left in place an
> > aimless and un-affiliated Hebrew speaking population
>
>         As you know there is no evidence any population ever spoke Hebrew.

Yes we do.  We actually have a number of inscriptions from Lachish
dating from the 7th century BCE and there are inscriptions of the same
period in Jerusalem.   I am not going to go into every archaeological
find, which, with you, is useless. But listen to yourself.  Nor only
do you have us believe that somebody simply freely associated the
Bible in the 1st century BCE, it also invented a language just for the
fun of it!!!

> > in the hills and
> > valleys of Palestine which the Persian installed priesthood eventually
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> As you know there is no evidence of any Babylonian involvement or interest in
> exporting any religion.

Did I mention any Babylonians????  Are you reading my text or dreaming
your dreams?

> > For the Bible to have been successful in its
> > goal (and it was), it had to incorporate and also amplify oral and
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Yet you keep reminding me it is not a cohesive narrative. And I keep pointing
> out to you it is much more gibberish than you are willing to admit.

There are duplications and discontinuities but this happens when one
has to reconcile different myths, oral traditions and texts.  If there
was a single inventor, it would have been easy to keep the story
straight.  By the priests, and most likely primarily Ezra, had to
reconcile various traditions.  The easiest way out was to keep both of
them in.

> > think that the high priests achieved their goal admirably well.
>
>         You take Astarte's temple in Jerusalem as evidence of success? You keep
> refusing to deal with the fact that we know the religion of bibleland was not
> as it is portrayed in either the old or new testaments.

And you have not read it.  That the temple and worship of Astarte and
Baal were present is mentioned various times (and many times is the
central narrative) in the Book of Kings.  The book of Kings actually
dates the introduction of the Astarte worship from the time of Solomon
(apparently, with Solomon's acceptance).

> > They
> > introduced the main deity far more frequently in pieces set in early
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
>Failed miserably in light of what we know the religion was really like.

Blah, blah, blah, blah...
Matt Giwer - 04 Jul 2009 14:34 GMT
>> ...
>>> No doubt, it was preserved from older oral histories but it is
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>>         As opposed to an unidentified author in the 6th c.? Please explain the
>> difference.

> The "author/compiler" is unidentified only in your feverish brain.
> Check it out and find out his name.

    I missed posting his name. Please do so again. Where is his name written?
Please be specific in your next lie.

>>> to "provide legitimacy of
>>> occupation", writing about a group of outsiders that conquered a given
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>> latter half of the 20th c. Indigenous peoples were not considered to have any
>> rights until the latter half of the 20th c.

> Well, you are mistaken.

    I am in fact absolutely correct about the right to rule by conquest and
indigenous peoples having no right and time period where those ideas changed.
Not a single thing you mention after this addresses those facts which can be
found in any studying of post WWII history.

> In fact, the Greek mythology clearly conceals
> the Greek conquest and enlists a continued occupation of the land and
> a continuity between Gods and humans.  In fact, you have to peal a few
> layers from the Greek mythology to uncover the elements of conquest
> (the hybrid myths). No group ever asserted rigths to anybody else on
> the basis of conquest.

    You mean Alexander never asserted the right to rule Greece and the rest of
the world by right of conquest? You mean he simply conquered and never founded
an empire?

> What was the jury????  The conquered either
> accepted the conquest or perished.  A new conqueror could dispose of
> the old conqueror any way he/she pleased.  These stories were
> organizing myths originate for and by the aristocracy (ordinary humans
> have little say in the Iliad and the songs were sung at the megara of
> the powerful) to create ruling legitimacy.

    You really cannot twist facts that way. You will not find a single assertion
of the conqueror being an illegitimate ruler until after WWII. That is a fact.
They may not have liked it but it was considered legitimate. Prior to that the
"civilized" world had no problem forcing rulers upon people who did not want
it. They had no rights not even Wilson's right of self-determination. Ask the
Russians and Germans put under Polish rule after WWI if you think it only
applied to non-white people.

> The Bible is just such an
> organ.  Conquest had to be explained in divine terms (because memories
> of it persisted) but it was the divine will and those that served it
> (the Pharisees and the Saduccees and the high priests) who benefited
> from it.

    "memories persisted" Please be specific on the mechanism of this persistence.
After that explain why they spoke a proto-aramaic language.

>>> The Bible, as written, is clearly directed to "insiders" rather than
>>> "outsiders" and it was mostly an "ethnogenesis tool" utilizing by a
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>> the good Samaritan? Do not forget to address our knowledge of the Samarian
>> religion in your response.

> Ethnic cohesion?  What does ethnic cohesion have to do with anything?

    It has to do with what you wrote and I quote

>>> priesthood in Jerusalem in fashioning a cohesive ethnic group from the
>>> late 6th century onwards

> Was the gulf between the Samaritans and orthodox Hebrews any more
> severe than the gulf between the Protestants and the Catholics in
> France and in Germany (I would contest exactly the opposite).

    I suggest you have yet to learn the first thing about the Samaritan religion.
You would not ask such a question if you knew anything.

> If
> Jesus is an example par excellence of many millennial preachers in the
> 1st century CE Palestine, this division was not that severe and
> certainly not ethnic.

    Even if Jesus existed it is difficult to imagine what you mean by a
millennial preacher unless I assume you are a very stupid person. I am torn
between simply asking you to explain and asking you what millennium. Take your
choice on which question you answer.

>>         To put it simply, there is no evidence of any ethnic cohesion in Palestine.
>> We know for certain the religion described in the OT was not the religion of
>> the people, not even of Jerusalem with its temples to both Astarte and Yahweh,
>> her's lasting into the early 2nd c. AD.

> Why are you mistaking religion and ethnic cohesion?  These two notions
> are separate and most people can make this distinction easily enough
> and they made it through history.

    Until the Zionists appeared in history there was never the stupidity of a
distinction between religion and ethnicity. Being a Jew has always been and
still is a follower of Judaism, period. There is a bestseller in Israel which
goes into this nonsense in detail. The author is a Jew and and a professor of
History at TAU.

> First of all, the Bible itself is
> hardly silent about Astarte and the fact that her worship lasted for
> at least 400 years until the temples were destroyed by king Josiah
> (shortly before the Egyptian and then the Babylonian conquest).

    Therefore the OT is clearly lying about her. She had a temple in Jerusalem
until Rome rebuilt the city in the early 2nd c. AD. One has to wonder what
kind of idiots could have believed the OT was other than the babble of crazies
when in the 1st and 2nd c. AD one could read of her worship having been ended
while sitting in the shade of her temple.

> There
> is little doubt, despite the hieratic claims in the Bible, that Judah
> and Israel were kingdoms in which many religions flourished.

    As you know there is no evidence either kingdom ever existed. You know this
as you have never presented any archaeological evidence from bibleland of
their existence. Yet you keep babbling on about "little doubt" when in fact
there is no knowledge. BTW, that will do for a definition of a believer.

> Now, my
> guess is that the temple to Astarte that was destroyed by Constantine
> was built some time after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus as it
> is unlikely that it would have existed under the severe Hasmonean rule
> or the very religiously charged period of the Herodean rule.  Herod
> himself was very careful to tiptoe around a profusion of zealots.

    Your guess is worthless as the facts are known. Josephus mentions her temple
as existing in Jerusalem in his time. Josephus did live near the end of
"Hasmodian" and did exist. There is no reason to guess about anything. It
existed in Jerusalem, period. Its existence is a fact. And for the record when
the Herod the Great built Caesarea he also built a temple to her there.

    You have no idea what in the f.ck you are talking about.

>>> There is little doubt that the Babylonian
>>> conquest and destruction of the kingdom of Judah
>>         As you know there is no evidence of any such conquest.

> Oh, shut up.  Lots of evidence was presented to you.  You simply bury
> your head in the sand.

    In fact I outlined to you the only three things which believers try to argue
into evidence of it and also told you why the arguments were nonsense. You
never replied. You did not respond. You presented nothing on your own.

>>> had left in place an
>>> aimless and un-affiliated Hebrew speaking population
>>         As you know there is no evidence any population ever spoke Hebrew.

> Yes we do.  We actually have a number of inscriptions from Lachish
> dating from the 7th century BCE and there are inscriptions of the same
> period in Jerusalem. I am not going to go into every archaeological
> find, which, with you, is useless.

    Inscriptions and letters are not a spoken language. You know that. You also
know that when the Judeans first appear in history in 67 BC they are speaking
Aramaic. You also know there is no evidence of the existence of Jerusalem as a
city of interest until Roman times. In Alexander's time it either did not
exist or was ruled by some city he did conquer.

> But listen to yourself.  Nor only
> do you have us believe that somebody simply freely associated the
> Bible in the 1st century BCE, it also invented a language just for the
> fun of it!!!

    The oldest know compilation is in Greek not Hebrew. The Septuagint appears in
history over a century before Josephus cites a forgery to claim there was an
older version in an older but unnamed language. The first mention of a
collection in "hebrew" does not appear until a century after Josephus. And
then it is in a language known only by the ex-priests turned rabbis.
   
    But you know all that too.

>>> in the hills and
>>> valleys of Palestine which the Persian installed priesthood eventually
>>> molded into the Hebrews with the Bible and the Temple as the main
>>> organs for this attempt.
>> As you know there is no evidence of any Babylonian involvement or interest in
>> exporting any religion.

> Did I mention any Babylonians????  Are you reading my text or dreaming
> your dreams?

    I got it from your posting this above but to quote

>>> There is little doubt that the Babylonian
>>> conquest and destruction of the kingdom of Judah

    But if you really meant Persians the same thing applies. There is ZERO
evidence of exporting any religion in any form.

>>> For the Bible to have been successful in its
>>> goal (and it was), it had to incorporate and also amplify oral and
>>> written stories prevalent in the population, organize this
>>> information  in a cohesive narrative and affiliate it with a deity.
>> Yet you keep reminding me it is not a cohesive narrative. And I keep pointing
>> out to you it is much more gibberish than you are willing to admit.

> There are duplications and discontinuities but this happens when one
> has to reconcile different myths, oral traditions and texts.  If there
> was a single inventor, it would have been easy to keep the story
> straight.

    If it were easy for authors to keep stories straight there would be no need
for editors.

    But then you are the only person saying it was created by only one person. I
have never said that.

> By the priests, and most likely primarily Ezra, had to
> reconcile various traditions.  The easiest way out was to keep both of
> them in.

    As Ezra is also a myth you think it is safe to blame a myth. Remember the
chain of myth. Captivity in Babylon is a myth therefore all events predicated
upon that myth including Ezra are also myths.

>>> think that the high priests achieved their goal admirably well.
>>         You take Astarte's temple in Jerusalem as evidence of success? You keep
>> refusing to deal with the fact that we know the religion of bibleland was not
>> as it is portrayed in either the old or new testaments.

> And you have not read it.  That the temple and worship of Astarte and
> Baal were present is mentioned various times (and many times is the
> central narrative) in the Book of Kings.  The book of Kings actually
> dates the introduction of the Astarte worship from the time of Solomon
> (apparently, with Solomon's acceptance).

    And Josephus mentions her temple in Jerusalem in his time and Herod built a
temple to her in Caesarea. Are you going to continue to pretend to such
ignorance?

>>> They
>>> introduced the main deity far more frequently in pieces set in early
>>> times as to legitimize them.  Thus God, who speaks quite often in the
>>> Pentateuch, seems to be quite silent in later Kings and needs
>>> Prophets.  Interesting approach and one that worked.
>> Failed miserably in light of what we know the religion was really like.

> Blah, blah, blah, blah...

    Failed miserably as I said. Dozens of times I have recited the existence of
her temple in Jerusalem in the 1st c. AD and the basis for it being there as
Josephus. Several of them have been addressed to you including the one to
which you are now responding. Yet you never respond. You continue to pretend
it was never said.

    You are very desperate.

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> I am in fact absolutely correct about the right to rule by conquest and
> indigenous peoples having no right

Whoops! Matt the Pratt just shot himself in the foot - anyone else
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right of conquest?

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>> I am in fact absolutely correct about the right to rule by conquest and
>> indigenous peoples having no right

> Whoops! Matt the Pratt just shot himself in the foot - anyone else
> noticed that he is against Israel because it rules in Palestine by
> right of conquest?

    If in fact you are correct in that statement then Israel, as a member of the
UN and as a signatory to the Fourth Geneva Convention, is committing what it
has agreed is a war crime as are all the criminal squatters whom those who
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Martin Edwards - 05 Jul 2009 07:26 GMT
>> ...
>>
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> The "author/compiler" is unidentified only in your feverish brain.
> Check it out and find out his name.

It would cost you nothing to reveal it.
ADR - 05 Jul 2009 07:35 GMT
> >> ...
>
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>
> It would cost you nothing to reveal it.

Possibly, but who wants to suffer your smugness?
Matt Giwer - 05 Jul 2009 09:41 GMT
>>>> ...
>>>>> No doubt, it was preserved from older oral histories but it is
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Possibly, but who wants to suffer your smugness?

    Why play coy? Give it your best shot to support the believer bullshit fantasy
that the myth Ezra did it. Explain how everyone missed his clear statement of
authorship back when people were still stupid enough to believe Abraham and
Moses really existed. Will you need any extra rope?

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Martin Edwards - 06 Jul 2009 07:51 GMT
>>>> ...
>>>>> No doubt, it was preserved from older oral histories but it is
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Possibly, but who wants to suffer your smugness?

I don't see the connection.
Christopher Ingham - 05 Jul 2009 11:22 GMT
> On Jul 3, 1:31 pm, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 31 lines]
> "their" God.  This would hardly have managed to elicit sympathy or
> legitimacy in the Hellenistic world.

The "table of nations" (Gen. 1-32) illustrates quite well how
different the Weltanschauung of the Israelites was from that of the
Greeks.  Here the nations of the world are described in terms of
genealogical interrelationships (i.e., kinship).  In this scheme
(which is not always consistent elsewhere in the biblical texts),
where all humankind is descended from the three sons of Noah, there
are no autochthonous peoples in Israel, Judah, or anywhere else.
Shem, the eldest son of Noah, "the father of all the children of Eber
[= the Hebrews]" (Gen. 10.21), may possibly be identified with Sumer
(_Shumer_in cuneiform texts), the cradle of civilization (the toponym
"Sumer" otherwise unexplainably does not appear at all in the Hebrew
Bible.)  Being the chosen people of God whose homeland had been
foreordained was doubtless amply sufficient as proof of the legitimacy
of the Jewish state.  Whether this fit in with prevailing notions in
the Hellenistic and Roman world would have been of little or no
concern to the Jews, who assiduously maintained cultural insularity
(aside from the adoption of some superficial Hellenistic traits).

> The Bible, as written, is clearly directed to "insiders" rather than
> "outsiders" and it was mostly an "ethnogenesis tool" utilizing by a
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> Pentateuch, seems to be quite silent in later Kings and needs
> Prophets.  Interesting approach and one that worked.

Mostly agree with you here, though the outline is a little too neat
and tidy; and I have a couple brief remarks.  We don't know enough
about the state of affairs during the Babylonian captivity to even
know whether the remnants of the population in Judea stabilized or
not, or to what extent followers of Yahwistic cults achieved a modus
vivendi with one another and neighboring Canaanite followers of Baal.
While the Persians reestablished the priesthood among the repatriated
elites, their (the Persians') role in the affairs of the Jews was
always rather minimal, since they left them to govern themselves.  The
movement to establish a state religion most likely became critical and
was substantively effected during and immediately after the crisis
initiated by (the hapless, it seems) Seleucid Antiochus in the early
second century BCE., when the final redactions of the OT were made.
Even afterwards, conflicts among adherents of popular Yahwism,
prophetic Yahwism, and official Yahwism persisted.  The establishment
of uniform religious beliefs and practices among the Jews was not
achieved until after the destruction of Jeruslem by the Romans.

Christopher Ingham
Matt Giwer - 05 Jul 2009 16:00 GMT
>> On Jul 3, 1:31 pm, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
>> "their" God.  This would hardly have managed to elicit sympathy or
>> legitimacy in the Hellenistic world.

> The "table of nations" (Gen. 1-32) illustrates quite well how
> different the Weltanschauung of the Israelites was from that of the
> Greeks.  Here the nations of the world are described in terms of
> genealogical interrelationships (i.e., kinship).

    But as we know it is total bullshit. So what is your point?

    And we also know the designation "table of nations" makes not the least bit
of sense if you actually read it. But you know you that you are only reciting
some nonsense some idiot was told by another idiot ad infinitum.

    What is your point? Everyone knows ever point you made after this is absolute
nonsense invented at some unknown time by some unknown people and has nothing
whatsoever to do with what is actually in Genesis.

    But please prove me wrong. Defend you BS in your own words, thumper.

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Trond Engen - 03 Jul 2009 23:51 GMT
Christopher Ingham:

>> On Jul 3, 10:09 am, Christopher Ingham
>> <christophering...@comcast.net> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 29 lines]
> perhaps it was one of the more persistent of several origins legends
> preserved in oral histories.

I've speculated that it might stem from a Mesopotamian tradition of
deriving power from the ancient Sumerians. Thus, by adding an origin in
southern Mesopotamia to the myth of the founding father from Harran the
Canaanites formulated a claim to their land in Babylonian terms.

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Matt Giwer - 04 Jul 2009 02:15 GMT
...
> I've speculated that it might stem from a Mesopotamian tradition of
> deriving power from the ancient Sumerians.

    Can you provide a citation for such a tradition? Your imagination is not a
citation.

> Thus, by adding an origin in
> southern Mesopotamia to the myth of the founding father from Harran the
> Canaanites formulated a claim to their land in Babylonian terms.

    Try reading 1Kings and Ezra on the subject.

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Italo - 04 Jul 2009 10:52 GMT
> Trond Engen wrote: ...
>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Try reading 1Kings and Ezra on the subject.

Ezra mentions `men of Erech´ in Samaria.
<http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=ezr+4:9&t=nas&sc=1>
May be Harran was linked to south Mesopotamia when they
identified Abraham with their own Gilgames.

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Matt Giwer - 04 Jul 2009 14:37 GMT
>> Trond Engen wrote: ...
>>> I've speculated that it might stem from a Mesopotamian
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>>> Babylonian terms.
>> Try reading 1Kings and Ezra on the subject.

> Ezra mentions `men of Erech´ in Samaria.
> <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=ezr+4:9&t=nas&sc=1>
> May be Harran was linked to south Mesopotamia when they
> identified Abraham with their own Gilgames.

    Read The Fine Message which started this thread to know all there is to know
about the subject.

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Christopher Ingham - 05 Jul 2009 11:16 GMT
> Christopher Ingham:
>
[quoted text clipped - 40 lines]
>
> - Show quoted text -

I'm not sure, Trond, if you mean Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, etc., the
successor states of Sumer, augmented their legitimacy as rulers of the
Mesopotamian region by advertising themselves as continuators of
Sumer.  This was a common phenomenon, with notable exceptions, of new
regimes, although in this case through time the knowledge of who
exactly the Sumerians were would have increasingly diminished.

Because of corroborative details scattered throughout the biblical
texts, I doubt that the Sumerian heritage of the Hebrews was suddenly
invented.  However, if such a connection were to be played up, say, in
the sixth century BCE, when the Neo-Babylonians were in power, the
prestige of the Judaeans, say, in Babylon conceivably would have been
enhanced.

Christopher Ingham
Matt Giwer - 05 Jul 2009 16:06 GMT
...
> I'm not sure, Trond, if you mean Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, etc., the
> successor states of Sumer, augmented their legitimacy as rulers of the
> Mesopotamian region by advertising themselves as continuators of
> Sumer.  This was a common phenomenon, with notable exceptions, of new
> regimes, although in this case through time the knowledge of who
> exactly the Sumerians were would have increasingly diminished.

    It is good to learn this. Please cite the sources from those kingdoms where
in fact they did do as you lie about. Take all the screens you need to make as
a.s of yourself.

> Because of corroborative details scattered throughout the biblical
> texts, I doubt that the Sumerian heritage of the Hebrews was suddenly
> invented.

    You are of course also invited to present those "details" along with the
archaeological finds which you consider corroborative.

    Consider that another bluff called.

> However, if such a connection were to be played up, say, in
> the sixth century BCE, when the Neo-Babylonians were in power,

    Remember your bible. The Chaldeans were in power. Are you ready to defend
that explicitly? Of course not. You lie like all believers.

> the
> prestige of the Judaeans, say, in Babylon conceivably would have been
> enhanced.

    You are also invited to present the archaeological evidence there were
Judeans at that time as well as why the Babylonians would have believed the
claims of savage, genital mutilating goat herders.    

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Dragonblaze - 05 Jul 2009 16:46 GMT
> ...
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> in fact they did do as you lie about. Take all the screens you need to make as
> a.s of yourself.

You're an ignorant idiot, Matt. Do you have the faintest clue just how
many times the title $ar mat $umeri u Akkadi - the king of Sumer and
Akkad - crops up in Babylonian royal inscriptions long after Sumer had
disappeared as a distinct entity? Even Cyrus who was a Persian, uses
it of himself in the first lines of the Cyrus cylinder:

a-na-ku ku-ra-a$ LUGAL ki$-$at LUGAL.GAL LUGAL dan-nu $ar ba-bi-li $ar
KI.$u-me-ri u ak-ka-di

"I am Cyrus, king of the universe, the great king, the strong king,
king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad."

Tiglath-Pileser III who was Assyrian also used this title.
Matt Giwer - 06 Jul 2009 06:16 GMT
>> ...
>>> I'm not sure, Trond, if you mean Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, etc., the
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>> in fact they did do as you lie about. Take all the screens you need to make as
>> a.s of yourself.

> You're an ignorant idiot, Matt. Do you have the faintest clue just how
> many times the title $ar mat $umeri u Akkadi - the king of Sumer and
> Akkad - crops up in Babylonian royal inscriptions long after Sumer had
> disappeared as a distinct entity? Even Cyrus who was a Persian, uses
> it of himself in the first lines of the Cyrus cylinder:

    For the record, out of four obvious lies you choose to defend only one of
them as not being a lie. You damn Ingham with faint defense.

> a-na-ku ku-ra-a$ LUGAL ki$-$at LUGAL.GAL LUGAL dan-nu $ar ba-bi-li $ar
> KI.$u-me-ri u ak-ka-di
> "I am Cyrus, king of the universe, the great king, the strong king,
> king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad."
> Tiglath-Pileser III who was Assyrian also used this title.

    I had the odd impression I was addressing this statement.

<quote>augmented their legitimacy as rulers of the Mesopotamian region by
advertising themselves as continuators of Sumer.</quote>

    Mere mention is not an indicator of contributing to legitimacy. Ego centric
bombast is a well known characteristic of monarchs. Thus we have the one time
descriptor of the British monarch as Emperor of India. This did not enhance
the legitimacy of their rule of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

    Hereditary monarchs are also known to enhance their legitimacy by claiming
descent from previous monarchs who were also viewed favorably by those they
ruled such as the Dark/Middle ages custom of tracing royal lineage back to
Adam via David and Solomon.

    Got any of those?

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Dragonblaze - 06 Jul 2009 10:47 GMT
[snip]

> > a-na-ku ku-ra-a$ LUGAL ki$-$at LUGAL.GAL LUGAL dan-nu $ar ba-bi-li $ar
> > KI.$u-me-ri u ak-ka-di
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> descriptor of the British monarch as Emperor of India. This did not enhance
> the legitimacy of their rule of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Which is what they did by claiming to be kings of Sumer. Sumer was not
a political entity even in the time of Tiglath-Pileser III. The same
goes for claiming to be king of Akkad, which by then was in ruins, as
we do have a text from a Babylonian scribe which mentions the ruins of
Akkad. Both of these claims are made in order to show continuance of
rule from the distant past.
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>
> [snip]
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>> descriptor of the British monarch as Emperor of India. This did not enhance
>> the legitimacy of their rule of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

>>    Got any of those?

> Which is what they did by claiming to be kings of Sumer.

    I agree, you don't got any of those.

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Martin Edwards - 06 Jul 2009 07:56 GMT
>> ...
>>
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
>
> Tiglath-Pileser III who was Assyrian also used this title.

It is also worth pointing out that does not mention any god at
Jerusalem, as per Ezra, or any people with an invisible god.  it only
mentions refugee idols which were to be returned to their original homes.
Matt Giwer - 04 Jul 2009 02:14 GMT
...
> Maybe it was a way for a humble people to graft on to themselves the
> ancestry of those from a more developed and prestigious culture.  Or
> perhaps it was one of the more persistent of several origins legends
> preserved in oral histories.

    Or maybe, if you ever read the fiction you would see what else is attributed
to those "warrior mystics" and not need to speculate.

I Kings

24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of
the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of
Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.

25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night
by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's
garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the
king went the way toward the plain.

25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook
him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from
him.

25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon
to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out
the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried
him to Babylon.

25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is
the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon,
unto Jerusalem: 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the
king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's
house burnt he with fire.

25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of
the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

    Warrior mystics anyone? Mystic warriors is already used by some video game.

    And do not forget they were also connecting themselves to Nebuchadnezzar.

Ezra

5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath,
he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the
Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

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Matt Giwer - 03 Jul 2009 23:02 GMT
...
> This actually jives quite well with the Bible having been compiled/
> rewritten sometime in the 6th century.

> But the connection of Abraham with lower Mesopotamia is, to say the
> least, perplexing and probably a mythical explanation of the fact that
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> "founding fathers" are locals.  This reinforces the claim to the land,
> if anything.

    In Genesis the god of the Yahwist cult promised Abraham the land from the
Nile to the Euphrates, that is, the New Kingdom of Egypt. Other books make
different claims as to what was promised. This is another example of a real
sh.t editing job.

    Why these myths were created at such a late date appears to be an attempt of
reactionary Ayatollahs to impose their primitive version of Yahweh upon the
local populace.

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Matt Giwer - 03 Jul 2009 23:44 GMT
> On Jul 3, 10:09 am, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
...
>> "The Chaldeans were a group of five tribes who became dominant in
>> Babylonia during the late sixth century BCE.  They are not mentioned
>> by name in any source before the ninth century, which makes the phrase
>> 'Ur of the Chaldeans' relatively late [i.e., anachronistic - CI]."
>> Christopher Ingham

> Christofer,

> This actually jives quite well with the Bible having been compiled/
> rewritten sometime in the 6th century.

    One has to ask why an anachronism is "confirmatory" to a believer.

    A rational person asks how a group coming to power in the 6th c. is
consistent with "compiled/rewritten" in that same century. To a rational
person it supports INVENTED in that century by some ignorant fools who thought
they were always dominant and tied their origin fantasy to the dominant people
in Babylon in that century.

    Of course it also supports the INVENTION of these stories any time AFTER the
6th c. BC.

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ADR - 04 Jul 2009 06:02 GMT
> > On Jul 3, 10:09 am, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>

> > This actually jives quite well with the Bible having been compiled/
> > rewritten sometime in the 6th century.
>
>         One has to ask why an anachronism is "confirmatory" to a believer.

You continue to be idiotic, don't you?  Can't give it up.  The
anachronism results from the significance of Ur and the references of
the Chaldeans (and you have forgotten the book of Jubilees which
mentions the date of foundation of Ur.  How would anybody inventing
everything in the 1st century BCE -or that matter the 6th century BCE
- know the approximate date of the foundation of Ur?).  If one takes
the dates of the Bible seriously, the Chaldeans did not exist at the
time of Abraham.  It is evident that the later authors did not know
very much about the history of Mesopotamia but they have heard of Ur.

>         A rational person asks how a group coming to power in the 6th c. is
> consistent with "compiled/rewritten" in that same century. To a rational
> person it supports INVENTED in that century by some ignorant fools who thought
> they were always dominant and tied their origin fantasy to the dominant people
> in Babylon in that century.

I cannot believe your stupidity.  Are you that thick?  First and
foremost, if somebody had decided to create a "holy book" that had no
relationship to the preserved oral or written histories, it would have
been a dud.  And Ur was abandoned in the 6th century so why place the
founder there?  It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  Shake that
head again, something may move

>         Of course it also supports the INVENTION of these stories any time AFTER the
> 6th c. BC.

It is a very good bet that it was not "invented" from pure cloth any
more than the Greek Epic cycle was (which was compiled in Hellenistic
times).  The Greek Epic Cycle which can be regarded as the "Greek
Bible" was compiled in Hellenistic times but it had a long transition
from oral stories (heroic poems) to written summaries to a final
compilation.  The Jewish Bible followed the same trajectory for the
same reasons (the organizing myth, but containing many elements of
historical value).
Matt Giwer - 04 Jul 2009 15:10 GMT
>>> On Jul 3, 10:09 am, Christopher Ingham <christophering...@comcast.net>
>>> This actually jives quite well with the Bible having been compiled/
>>> rewritten sometime in the 6th century.
>>         One has to ask why an anachronism is "confirmatory" to a believer.

> You continue to be idiotic, don't you?  Can't give it up.  The
> anachronism results from the significance of Ur and the references of
> the Chaldeans (and you have forgotten the book of Jubilees which
> mentions the date of foundation of Ur.

    I cited the KJV as the source. No Jubilees there so we do not get the tales
of the Watchers and Adam and Eve's sex life either. Nor did it contain the
book of Eden. But you are free to post from Jubilees as to the date of
founding. I am certain I will be very amused by such a quote. As a matter of
fact I will likely be as amused as with your reference to Jesus using the word
millennial.

> How would anybody inventing
> everything in the 1st century BCE -or that matter the 6th century BCE
> - know the approximate date of the foundation of Ur?).

    No one knows when Jubilees was written, who wrote it or why. It is not in the
Septuagint so it has no bearing upon the issue of the oldest collection of OT
stories. The Septuagint has only 41 books. Josephus clearly states the Judeans
have only 22 sacred books but he did not list them.

    However PLEASE quote from it as to the "DATE" it was founded. If you want to
post some begat BS post then entire list of begats.

> If one takes
> the dates of the Bible seriously, the Chaldeans did not exist at the
> time of Abraham.

    Only if one takes teh bible seriously can one refer to the "time of Abraham"
as he is myth and myths do not have times.

> It is evident that the later authors did not know
> very much about the history of Mesopotamia but they have heard of Ur.

    As you read in 1Kings they wrote the Chaldees, as in Ur of the Chaldees, were
the main army that surrounded Jerusalem.

>>         A rational person asks how a group coming to power in the 6th c. is
>> consistent with "compiled/rewritten" in that same century. To a rational
>> person it supports INVENTED in that century by some ignorant fools who thought
>> they were always dominant and tied their origin fantasy to the dominant people
>> in Babylon in that century.

> I cannot believe your stupidity.  Are you that thick?  First and
> foremost, if somebody had decided to create a "holy book"

    There is no direct evidence it was intended as a "holy" anthology. No one
knows why it was created.

> that had no
> relationship to the preserved oral or written histories, it would have
> been a dud.

    To the contrary, Scientology, Mormonism and Islam have no such connections
and are not duds.

> And Ur was abandoned in the 6th century so why place the
> founder there?  It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  Shake that
> head again, something may move

    Whether or not it makes sense, it was known, period. Your predicate is that
it was unknown yet it was clearly known.

>>         Of course it also supports the INVENTION of these stories any time AFTER the
>> 6th c. BC.

> It is a very good bet that it was not "invented" from pure cloth any
> more than the Greek Epic cycle was (which was compiled in Hellenistic
> times).  The Greek Epic Cycle which can be regarded as the "Greek
> Bible"

    It is not the basis for a religion therefore it cannot be compared to the bible.

> was compiled in Hellenistic times but it had a long transition
> from oral stories (heroic poems) to written summaries to a final
> compilation.  The Jewish Bible followed the same trajectory for the
> same reasons (the organizing myth, but containing many elements of
> historical value).

    There is no archaeological evidence indigenous to bibleland in support of any
of the bible stories.

    But you know that.

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Elijahovah - 04 Jul 2009 22:20 GMT
== Chaldeans:  The biblical way ==

Most of you will be like me who just read all your stuff
until it was clear none of you are original; I heard it all before,
and I had enough of it. Now this in itself is not a bad thing. Better
to know someone keeps and sustains the truth known for decades than
fabrication to come along like spaceships building Chaldea.

However, then we have those who line for line analyze each sentence on
its own without letting the point of the writer build up. They are
just making an attack because every line of the witer is repulsive to
them. This can be a creationist gagging on science, or a scientist who
thinks he is gagging on creationism (beware bible does not mean
creationism, maybe the writer has found the science in it that
religions ignore for the crap they piece together). Do be fair if
youre an theist because alot of supposed science these days is also
just new crap thrown together.

So now the topic UR
It says Arpaxad was the father of Chaldea. Seems to me the original
topic skipped over that since Arpaxad was born 339 years before Peleg
died, 350 years before Abram was born, and 425 years before Terah
died. Here are the things that can be pieced together by the things
known in religion about Chaldea. Chaldea was predicted to be wayward
from God; it was predicted to be destroyed. But it was also predicted
to come back and return, not as itself, but as the true knowledge, a
New City, to replace it with the science and astronomy and medicine of
which Ur had screwed up by going mystic.. There is a Shemetic Chaldea
because Arpaxad is the son of Shem, and then it was replaced by an
Akkadian Chaldea known as Babylon the 1st dynasty (1894 BC).

So what's the big thing about Chaldea. It is that all answers were
boastfully coming from Chaldea but failed, it fell, and the prophecies
guaranteed replacement. Right now it is Zionism supported by the USA;
it is seen as the New Jerusalem, and so as the New Chaldea. But as
before, everyone wants to be New Chaldea. Hitites attacked Canaan,
Egypt attacked Canaan, Israel took Canaan, Philistines next to Canaan
said it was theirs. Eventually Babylon rose up as CHaldea again, but
to prove it they went to take Canaan (Jerusalem). Jerusalem was
founded by Shem (Melchizedek according to Jews) and thus father of
Arpaxad the father of Chaldea. Therefore his city Salem was just
waiting and waiting and waiting until Canaan died from self-disasters
assuming Salem would just spred out across Canaan then. Didnt happen,
and Moses had Joshua take care of that.

So who built Ur, was it Shem, was it Arpaxad since he is the FATHER.
The answer is clear by the suicide of Ur in 2029 BC carbon dated as
2030 BC. Chaldea was founded by Damuzi and Damuzi is the planet Mars.
The calendar is 360-day with ten years being called sars which
eventually means kings. Damuzi was the Leader of the calendar year.
Simple to find this as 780-day Mars, 13 years of 360 days is 6 orbits.
This also fits in with 52 year Mars, a known calendar, 260 days less
than 52 egyptian years, and 13 leap days. So decades of Mars, 13x 10
year decades and 10x 13 year Mars is 130 years. Peleg was born 100
years after the Flood and would be 30 if he built it. Ur commits mass
suicide the year after he dies, so it is more probable he founded Ur
than Arpaxad the great grand father of Peleg. (several world alendars
verifiy this with 2269 BC as Peleg's birth and 2239 BC as foundation
of Ur). Thus when text says the founder of Ur named Mesanipada created
kingship by making his son Aanipada king for 80 years, it means Peleg
is the founder of Ur (at 30 in 2239 BC), had a son Reu that year as
reason to go start his own house and own city. And then at 62 made his
32 year old son the king of all his house (in 2207 BC). Chronology
from 747 BC changes this thinking that Peleg died 339 years old in
2207 BC leaving his son as king. The truth is Peleg died not starting
the 177 years of kings, but rather the kings failed and ended when
Peleg died (2030 BC). The population was 30,000 when he died, so thus
it was 30,000 at the end of 177 years of kings (2207-2030 BC), not
30,000 when kingship started in 2207 BC over a mere large household of
relatives and servants and workers.
The fact that Babylon thinks in 747 BC that Peleg Mesanipada was 339
years old at death, is not a lie. If he was 239 years old and born 100
years after the Flood, then he did die in year 339. Also the fact that
they think Reu Aanipad became king at Peleg Mesanipada's death implies
that Reu Aanipada was alive at Peleg's death.... NeoBabylon would say
Reu was 209 (in 2207 BC when he became king for 130 years) to the die
at same age of his father (339); but though he was 209 at his father's
death in 2030 BC, his kingship was when he was 32. King means
declaring someone an elder in position who is young and not an elder
in reality. The kinglist mocks this saying who is king who is not.
Let's make every man a king). It is here that city elders was formed
first in history, 163 years after the Flood.

When Peleg Mesanipada died, he was no longer a living founding father
of the city for 177 years. Instead his son Reu Aanipada replaced that
position. But this was not his the start of his 80-year kingship that
ended 97 years earlier. So where Babylon says his rule of 80 years
started in 2207 BC when Peleg died and Reu took over, instead Reu took
over when his father died in 2030 BC, and there was no sole king, only
a body for the 2nd dynasty. This is why no one can establish the 2nd
dynasty.

When and who built the ziggurat? Was it Ur-Nammu. No it wasnt. First
know that Isan started a kingship by IbbiSin putting his servant
IshbiErra on a throne to help asist Ur rebuild which had been
destroyed by Hittites. But wait, this is a conclusion based on
IbbiSini ruling the last 24 years of 3rd dynasty Ur. And so the known
fall as 2029 BC is assumed to be 3rd dynasty. Instead, IbbiSin had
been born in 2060 BC when Nineveh was founded the same year Marudk
Temple was built at Babel. so When Ur fell he was 30 years old
becoming a king, an elder, one of all the elders who stayed in Ur
despite the mass suicide of 1st dynasty Ur. Thus he was 43 when he put
IshbiErra in Isan in 2017 BC. WE know this on the premise that 2029 BC
cannot be the fall of 3rd dynasty if its the fall of 1st dynasty
having been founded in 2207 BC proven by calendar and chronologies
(many of them). Thus when did Ur Nammu rule. If it was not 108 years
before 2029 BC. The answer is competition. Marduk temple in all
chronologies proves it honors Marduk Street in 2009 BC for the 52 year
calendar. Thus people were going to Babel, to help build that Street,
to go celebrat, and to stay there. So UrNammu began that year and the
108 years is confirmed by AmarSin being AmarPal, who started rule when
Abram left Ur in 1943 BC, and then further confirmed by the fall in
1900 BC founding India on the Hindus River. and regarded as a 1200
year Venus calendar back to The Flood (3102-3101 BC), and to their Era
700 BC. So did he build it, or just enlarge it. He is known only to
have enlarged it. In fact, there is always an association of a tower
or pyramid as built for The Flood. So Seder Olam saying the Flood was
2105 BC may very well truly or really be that ziggurat. Since Meskiag-
Nannar began rule in 2127 BC, it is his 23rd year. This is interesting
since it is Hamurabi's 23rd year that he creates a new Marduk calendar
in Adams year 2256, Noahs year 1200, being 600 after Flood, at the
death of Narmer (Narmerod /Nimrod) in Abydos Egypt at age 500 (our
1770 BC). The pyramid in the 23rd year of MeskiagNannar (2105 BC) may
easily then be confused with the Great Pyramid as the tower in 1770 BC
and both equated as the tower of Confusion (babel). The building of
the great pyramid in 2170 BC failed precession of the star 3 times 92
years intended to compare centuries (100 years), thus the 3rd chamber
we call KINGS fails in 1894 BC, another reason it is called the tower
of Babel by moslems who say Nimrod lived 500 years.
When records say a man's life ruled that long, many times it means
their life measured that long; they are a king of longevity and so
regarded as knowing everything even when they know sh.t.

So who will be the next Chaldea, the new Chaldea. Will it be Israel in
Jerusalem, Iraq in Jerusalem, Palestinian Philistines in Israel, is it
New Delhi, New Amsterdam, the New World (America). It is my christ and
Lord and king who is wife of Jesus in heaven. That is the new city
because no one has destroyed her in 104 years (537-443 BC is 1914-2008
AD). She rules and will rule now before the asteroid strike this
autumn. I am a soldier to protect her as Mordecai has, I am John the
Baptizer who brings her to Jesus in heaven. New Jerusalem's wall
running between my hand and my new government, while escorting that
bride Esther to her king Xerxes, that wall also stand tall between the
city's Watchtower and its temple because the Watchtower will prove to
be like Judas killing her, and like Peter saying you dont have to die.
My fate is like John's because I will die before the bride, and i will
not be like Judas who dies after the bride, hanging himself. Know this
that the bride ascends to heaven to be complete so she can come down
for 40 days as the new city and save her children telling them to go
to the mountains within 7 days after the asteroid strikes. The enemy
online produced the 11 lunar dates of Artaxerxes like Satan trying to
destroy the fact that Jesus and the bride both come in the 70 weeks
prophecy. But Satan did not realize that Jehovah having showed me the
Zoroastrian calendar shift of 5 days would easily be inspired by
Jehovah's spirit to see this is the proof that Artaxerxes did rule 51
years (a shift of 9 years x365 less 5 days in dates). This is the
year, if the bride doesnt prepare to ride her a.s into the New City
like Jesus did, no one will live, no human will be alive in 2010.

If I have to be a soldier, then like Moses perhaps i will summon the
courage to tell Obama my people will come and gather to worship
Jehovah. This is why he froze the Dutch ships to give New Amsterdam to
Britain 2300 years after Daniel died to enforce contract agreemtn
between God and nation that this land will worship Jehovah as Jehovah
wants to be worshipped or as he said thru Darius in the 18th year of
the New City (1914-1931 AD as in 537-520 BC), let any king who touches
that temple or stops its completion contend with the God who has put
his name on it, that God will destroy those kingsfor interfering with
the plan to save all humans present, future, and past to live upon the
Earth. Amen

ELIJAH
I have dreamed when I was 9 that I would face the kings and the
President that they will heed Jehovah because the end is here.
Matt Giwer - 05 Jul 2009 06:20 GMT
> == Chaldeans:  The biblical way ==

    Followed by 200 lines of non-biblical invention by unknown idiots.

    At least learn to title your posts honestly.

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Elijahovah - 05 Jul 2009 14:28 GMT
> The oldest known version of the Old Testament is
> the Septuagint written in Greek.
>         -- The Iron Webmaster, 4154

The oldest written record is by Moses on 1512 BC
or 1473 BC before he died. The Greek Septuagint has
two versions of Genesis. The Greek and the Egyptian.
The Egyptian follows Egypts 1290 BC papyrus canon
which says the Flood is 3090 BC and Peleg dies in
2321 BC (year 768), while the Greek says the Flood was 2958 BC
and Peleg dies in 2218 BC (year 740).

The true year 768  is the slavery in Egypt by Jannes
and the exodus of that was Hyksos leaving as individuals
in migration (1601 BC).

The true year 740 is 137 years after the Flood
in the 7th year of Ur which proved 139x 360 days
returned Sothis to the same date July 18 at Ur. Actually because
137 Julian years has leap day in 2369 BC but not in 2232 BC.
The dates which are the same Oct 12 (new year)
then Jan 6  (3-27 the day 40 of Flood)
will then shift one day after February
July 8 of 2369 BC becomes July 9 of 2232 BC (10-01)
July 18 of 2369 BC becomes July 19 of 2232 BC (10-11)
and the new year Oct 6 of 2369 BC becomes Oct 7 2232 BC.

The viscious desires you people have to call truth as being
from idiots, and as inventions while you glorify all you know
as being truth, this is what is evil in the heart and will result
soon in immediate death and destruction because you advocate
rebelling against things true until you are the first to see these
all knowing true things. You may think youre science but
you are like priests who kill because you think powers of decisions
should be in YOUR hands.

ELIJAH
warning those who are about to be slaughtered
and this is seriously true whether it be theri neighbor
pouring your blood out, or it be the natural disasters we face this
year that will shre and rip you pouring your blood upon the ground.
(Hey if you wanna see God as blood-thirsty by your accusations
of YOU, he can very well accomodate it with your blood.
And the survivors will know it was your own wishes to die that way
rather than cooperate with God. None of those cooperating are being
forced, they do it because they know love that you dont. This is not
about who has the love is it religion or is it scientists.
Matt Giwer - 05 Jul 2009 16:07 GMT
>> The oldest known version of the Old Testament is
>> the Septuagint written in Greek.
>>         -- The Iron Webmaster, 4154

> The oldest written record is by Moses on 1512 BC
> or 1473 BC before he died.

    You are a lying piece of sh.t. Produce the archaeological evidence of that or
be known as the piece of sh.t liar you are.

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Martin Edwards - 06 Jul 2009 07:57 GMT
>> The oldest known version of the Old Testament is
>> the Septuagint written in Greek.
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> 2321 BC (year 768), while the Greek says the Flood was 2958 BC
> and Peleg dies in 2218 BC (year 740).

I thought he went down with the Pequod and his whole crew except for
Ishmael.
Elijahovah - 06 Jul 2009 13:59 GMT
There are many current lies about Moses that mean nothing; ignore them
all. Do this in good faith because there are ancient records that lie
about Moses back in 1290 BC and after. The liars say he was a rebel,
the liars say it was about him as a dictator, the liars say he was
trying to take over. The liars were not just among the Israelites who
left Egypt (among them as the BIble says, as MOses says since he wrote
it); but they were also in Egypt claiming all the lies they could
about this man Moses.

So you can dig up all the ancient tablets and vellum and paper and
papyrus you want that says horrid things about Moses and this does not
make it the truth just because it was written 3000 years ago. In fact
who says that truth is what Kennedy wrote about Marylin Monroe because
it was written before what Jackie wrote about her. Time of writing is
not a guarantee of truth, or perhaps we should beleive Earth is flat
due to some Catholics writing it down 1000 years ago before you sh.t
head scholars think YOU and YOUR class came along and corrected
everyone.
Get off the pedestal of self-worship you a.sholes. Too much sahit
spouts from your mouth against other posters.
ELIJAH
Martin Edwards - 05 Jul 2009 07:23 GMT
> Christofer,
>
> This actually jives quite well with the Bible having been compiled/
> rewritten sometime in the 6th century.

How is it with jitterbug and lindy hop?
Martin Edwards - 05 Jul 2009 07:21 GMT
>>>     This is all the OT has to say about Ur. These are from Genesis.
>>> These are also from the King James Version using the English
[quoted text clipped - 120 lines]
>
> Christopher Ingham

Thanks for that, but the query is why the same group of translators
chose an archaic term for the same word in one place (though it may not
have been archaic to them) and the term which is still used for the same
word in another.  HP Lovecraft, eg, used archaic language compared with
many writers contemporary with him, but we are dealing here with the
same group of people.
Matt Giwer - 05 Jul 2009 09:45 GMT
...
> Thanks for that, but the query is why the same group of translators
> chose an archaic term for the same word in one place (though it may not
> have been archaic to them) and the term which is still used for the same
> word in another.  HP Lovecraft, eg, used archaic language compared with
> many writers contemporary with him, but we are dealing here with the
> same group of people.

    To be honest I am much more curious as to which idiots decided there was a
difference and when they did it. It is obvious our current crop of
self-declared Mensa types got it all confused. That is to be expected from the
self-declared.

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Martin Edwards - 06 Jul 2009 07:50 GMT
> ...
>> Thanks for that, but the query is why the same group of translators
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> self-declared Mensa types got it all confused. That is to be expected
> from the self-declared.

Some of them may be in Mensa.  The test is all maths.  Even the verbal
bits are maths with words.
Matt Giwer - 06 Jul 2009 11:40 GMT
>> ...
>>> Thanks for that, but the query is why the same group of translators
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>> crop of self-declared Mensa types got it all confused. That is to be
>> expected from the self-declared.

> Some of them may be in Mensa.  The test is all maths.  Even the verbal
> bits are maths with words.

    When the j.rkoff claimed to have PASSED an IQ test it was obvious he was lying.

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Matt Giwer - 03 Jul 2009 23:11 GMT
...
> I am not sure exactly what point you are making, but the Greek has
> Khaldaioi in each case.  I am at a loss to see why the Jacobean
> translators "modernized" as it were, the term in (putatively) later
> books.  Perhaps one of the many posters who know so much more than
> either of us can enlighten me.

    You were perhaps mercifully absent when the Ur crap started. A couple months
ago they started claiming it had to be the oldest Ur known. Why? Not because
it says so in the bible but just because. Like Intelligent Designers, they
wouldn't say bible if they had a mouthful.

    Recently I busted that nonsense pointing out it does in fact say Ur of the
Chaldees which date from maybe the 10th to the 5th c. BC but I used Chaldeans.
Then ipecac (imipak?) started raving about Chaldees and Chaldeans meaning
different things. In fact he was saying the former were mystics. So I did the
exercise of showing the associations of both terms from the same source. The
only implication of mystic (read charlatans) is the connection with
astrologers but there it is Chaldean rather than Chaldees. And then the use of
Chaldees has them as an army surrounding Jerusalem.

    Of course ipecac is so smart and so knowledgeable and so expert he managed to
get everything wrong.

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