Re: Origin of Sabbath, Canaanite seasonal festivals, and nomads’ spring sacrifice

Dragonblaze wrote:
On May 21, 7:35 am, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Stop lying about my arguments, Matt. I have shown you that in most
cases the evidence cannot be dismissed as "stories", since most
mentions are from economical texts and private letters. Your receipt
is not a "story", now is it?
It is dismissed as stories as at the dating of ALL the inscriptions you have
mentioned there was no culture in bibleland to which they could have referred.

I'm STILL waiting for your evidence for that assertion. Until such is
presented, I will dismiss it as groundless.

Dismiss what you wish. That you wish to argue to a conclusion remains a logical fallacy.

I merely point out there is no criteria to discriminate between two
independent stories of the same thing or the bible stories inspired by the
events in the inscriptions. What we do know for a fact is the events in the
stories did not occur in bibleland for the absence of physical evidence..
You still have to present evidence for your assertion. I am waiting.
You are claiming there is by claiming the stories are credible references to
real events. The burden of producing the evidence is on your shoulders. And
you know the burden is yours. And you know you have nothing else you would not
be trying the lame "prove a negative" which was identified as a logical
fallacy 2500 years ago.

I have referred to numerous archaeological sites, and cited original
texts mentioning the names. So I have evidence, you have not. Now try
and explain away how we do have Megiddo mentioned in the Amarna
Letters and even the route from Egypt to Megiddo is described in the
Tuthmose III text I posted a long excerpt from. So, given all this
physical (the tell of Megiddo) and textual (Amarna Letters and
Tuthmose III inscription) do you base your claim that there was no
civilization with walled cities in the area?

I fail to see what that has to do with the origin of the OT or a credible civilization which could have produced it.

Can you provide any physical evidence to show such a culture existed in
bibleland at the time of the inscriptions? If you cannot you do not have jack.
And unless you can show there was such a civilization in bibleland at the time
then the inscriptions cannot possibly refer to events in bibleland.

See the above example of Megiddo. If need be, I'll post the Tuthmose
III inscription again.

The letters have what to do with the origin of the OT fables?

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