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

On 22 May, 01:52, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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.

It's evidence - which you have asked me for - of the existence of a
civilization in the area, which is something you deny. The Amarna
Letters show that there was civilization capable of writing long
before your date for the alleged writing of the LXX.

        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?

As I said, it is evidence for the existence for something you deny,
i.e. there was a civilization capable of writing in there.

Dragonblaze
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