The Bible's Buried Secrets

DWill · Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:10 am

In other words, the events depicted in the Torah books have for you a substance and a feel of authenticity that you can't conceive as being merely legendary. I see the Gospel books in somewhat the same way, regarding whether or not Jesus existed. There is too much that wouldn't be included if story-telling was the only purpose; there's an attempt to preserve events and facts, although in my view this still results in a mixture of the real and the desired. Similarly, in the family history of Jacob, there is a lot that has the feel of life to it, contrasting with the different quality of legend and fable. Or perhaps the writers were novelists ahead of their time, I don't know. Obviously where I differ is that I think that a good deal of the Bible is in the heroic or epic mode common to the founding literatures of many peoples. That people back in those early days of the race lived to a prodigious old age is only one way that the origins of the Israelites were glorified.

By the way, does the bible mention specifically the age at which a woman died?

stahrwe · Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:32 am


	DWill wrote: In other words, the events depicted in the Torah books have for you a substance and a feel of authenticity that you can't conceive as being merely legendary. I see the Gospel books in somewhat the same way, regarding whether or not Jesus existed. There is too much that wouldn't be included if story-telling was the only purpose; there's an attempt to preserve events and facts, although in my view this still results in a mixture of the real and the desired. Similarly, in the family history of Jacob, there is a lot that has the feel of life to it, contrasting with the different quality of legend and fable. Or perhaps the writers were novelists ahead of their time, I don't know. Obviously where I differ is that I think that a good deal of the Bible is in the heroic or epic mode common to the founding literatures of many peoples. That people back in those early days of the race lived to a prodigious old age is only one way that the origins of the Israelites were glorified. By the way, does the bible mention specifically the age at which a woman died?

If Nova did a SHOW on Middle Earth, I would expect them to deal with it based on what Tolkien wrote. If Nova is going to do a SHOW about the Bible it needs to base its discussions on what is recorded there otherwise don't call the SHOW Buried Bible Secrets. Instead call it, Buried Secrets We Made Up While Ignoring the Material in the Bible. I don't require that Nova state the Bible is true but the approach they took is a joke. Talk about the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy.

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