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To: Greg or e who wrote (62296)	11/9/2014 8:30:46 PM
From: Greg or e	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Respond to of 69300

This link works better. bible.ca

To: Greg or e who wrote (62296)	11/10/2014 1:07:15 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 69300

Those Amarna Letters are some of the greatest archaeological finds in the history of the world, bar none, and all you do is go google some already prepared cut n paste? Try reading some of them <doh> The reason you don't hear so much more about them in biblical circles, is they do nothing to reinforce any utterly rediculous Moses & Joshua/ Solomon/ David tribal fictions. You should be smart enough right about now to finally figure out Moses is propaganda who was always an Egyptian. There were no "Hebrews" then, at least not 2million of them, there were plenty of tribes 100s of them but all the larger players knew one another. That little story about David & his slingshot was a big clue, there might have been some hill-tribe wandering raiders, muckying about grazing sheep, that was all.

To: Greg or e who wrote (62296)	11/10/2014 2:47:38 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

What is the task of biblical criticism? It is to advance the understanding of the Bible by applying new methods to the study of the text. One hopes to learn more and new things abut the text. By contrast, what is the task of Christian apologetics? It is essentially one of retrenchment. It wants to turn the clock back on criticism and in effect to learn less about the Bible, to undo all that critics consider progress. The apologist makes minimal concessions to critical method, using it opportunistically to try to vindicate the Bible as the kind of prop he needs it to be for the sake of his faith. One senses on every page that the Christian apologist wishes that the Higher Criticism of scripture had never been invented (probably by Satan) to confuse matters. Robert M. Price in The Christian Delusion