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To: lorne who wrote (11309)	2/4/2002 9:44:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 23908

lorne, Don't these guys understand that if the US had wanted a global empire, it would have acquired it post WWII, when America's army and economy stood alone amidst the devastated lands of Europe and Asia?

To: lorne who wrote (11309)	2/5/2002 6:08:34 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 23908

--Hello Andy. I think that story is a bunch of crap..." --- perhaps you are missing the point.

To: lorne who wrote (11309)	2/5/2002 10:20:33 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

The "Kingdom of Israel"? LOL! <<< Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral and folk traditions (many of them going far back) in the Hellenistic period. That was one of several currents, of which the collection that formed the New Testament was another. Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now generally recognized in Biblical scholarship that it has done the opposite. The Bible is not a historical text, and has only vague resemblances to what took place, as far as can be reconstructed. For example, whether Israel ever existed is not clear; if so, it was probably a small kingdom somewhere in the hills, apparently virtually unknown to the Egyptians. >>> monkeyfist.com Tom