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2 Comments
Leroux
Bernard, I do not understand your point. Or you are an hassidic jew, a very religious person (catholic, muslim) and you do not even think that the existence of Abraham might be a problem or you have been form by good scholars of well know universities (not religious university for simple mind) and you know that the book the bible is the story of an North Africa tribe of people travelling all around. There are not more scientifics ideas in the bible than in Homer Odyssey, or any books written by Antiquity thinker. It is a fable, an imaginative story, legend, mythology, saga, etc. and many peoples like them as they are for what they really are. Or you are a religious university teacher who makes a good living by talking about all those legends to youngster.
Or you believed that Abraham have existed like it is written in the bible or you saw like Superman, Santa Claus, etc. I cannot understand that we can argue about that.
blambore
Hi Loyola, thank you for taking the time to comment. As Carl Sagan once said: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”… As a skeptic and a critical thinker, I never thought I would one day find myself in a position to defend the idea that Abraham should be regarded as a historical figure. I can therefore truly appreciate where you are coming from. It took me a while to realize that the very same facts that have brought the scientific community to accept the idea he was a mythical figure, start supporting the idea he was a historical figure the minute you adopt the perspective of a secular covenant. Only then, can one come to realize that the biblical text of Gn 12-25 was never meant to be a religious text, but that it actually relates the circumstances surrounding the making of a secular covenant with a Mesopotamian overlord, and that this overlord would later be deified and become known as Yahweh. The amount of evidence supporting this unexpected interpretation are many and simply cannot be the result of luck. This is why, in the end, anyone who takes the time to review the case in details (instead of relying on current consensus and presuppositions), will inevitably come to the same conclusion.