Chuzzlewit, I'm much in your debt. For a year I've read your posts on another thread and profited handsomely from your excellent advice. Thank you!
Now about the present matter, I'm disappointed in your tactics: You simply grab the high intellectual ground and from the top of the mountain denounce opposing presentations out of hand. You slap a bad label on valid evidence and consign it to oblvion, You called prophecy: "Myth based on reality as in Nineveh."
I say Popcorn! Nahum prophesied in the 7th century BC:
Ninevh would fall never to be rebuilt
Her name would be forgotten
She would be buried
The entire book of Nahum is about Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire, best understood as the Nazis of antiquity.
Nineveh fell
She was covered with sand
She became a legend, proof of "Bible mythology."
Layard rediscovered Nineveh in 1845.
It has never been rebuilt.
"The destruction of Nineveh was final. When Xenophon and his Ten Thousand Greeks fought their way through the wilderness to the Black Sea in 401/400BC they passed the ruins of Neneveh but were not aware that some two centuries earlier the greatest city of world had stood on the site. Xenophon does not even mention Nineveh."
Wycliffe Historical Geography of Bible Lands, Moody Press
No mythology, just fact, Chuzz. I've lots more but have to go now!
Don
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