bible scholarship is a fucking joke. they silo off into their fucking judeo-christian religiously motivated silo and don't consider the context in which the gospels were written in. like, why do they never account in their scholarship that the miracle of the wine jars of jesus was literally done in an annual dionysian festival across greece? or that the gospel is structurally similar to euripedes the bacchae which everyone who was educated in greek read? or that the miracle of the star of the east was taken from augustus caesar's mythology and was a statement about jesus's supreme status over caesar? even with all their biases and lack of evidence, they are forced to conclude that the bible was from the 9th century bc in an oral tradition.  this is disregarding our findings at elephantine which show the jews didn't know fucking anything about moses in the 6th century bc.
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