Re: Dionysus El Elyon and Zeus Baal Shamen

Larry Swain wrote:
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Its posted by Agamemnon, that should answer your question.

There are several good works that cover this period and would answer your question. I'd recommend Martin Hengel's Judaism and Hellenism as perhaps one of the best and most accessible.

The only rational advice is to read people who do not start with the supposition that there is anything about bibleland and who have preferably never bothered to look into the monotheistic mythology of the west.

That means people who will take the physical evidence for what it is and as nothing more.

What that means is nothing has been found in all the digs in bibleland to support the existence of this religion. Not one single thing. It is all based upon the Septuagint, Josephus and a few mentions in the civil record and a few passages in the highly redacted and embellished gospels.

Someone who never bothered with western mythology would give no more credence to the religious sources than he would the writings of any other religion.

It is instructive to look at exactly and only what is mentioned about Judaism in the gospels and find it is only vaguely recognizable. Not even the the god of the temple is named. For example, we can conclude this temple practiced circumcision. There is no explanation for WHY he at the temple for the story about discoursing with the priests, no mention of a Bar Mitzvah. There is no mention of a Mikvah. Today a man is not a Jew unless he has all three. The Jewish people are a recent invention of the Zionists.

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