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  • Nevada Convert changed the title to Archeologists Find More Bible Story Evidence of Moses Leading His People To Promise Land
On 7/13/2024 at 1:51 PM, Nevada Convert said:

It's cool they found an ancient site. But there's nothing that they found that has anything to do with Moses, and the site they found had inscriptions from 2700 years ago, not 3200. Did you read the article? 

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On 7/15/2024 at 7:21 AM, happycamper said:

It's cool they found an ancient site. But there's nothing that they found that has anything to do with Moses, and the site they found had inscriptions from 2700 years ago, not 3200. Did you read the article? 

That's a good one...

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On 7/16/2024 at 3:17 PM, smltwnrckr said:

Is that one of the Israeli organizations that uses claims to having found archeological evidence to support Bible stories as a way to justify settlements?

Its a historical fact that the Jewish population of Palestine pre-dates the founding of the Muslim religion by several hundred years, and its really not in dispute.  Muslims didnt become the dominant demographic until after the Muslim conquest in the 7th century, when Christians were actually in the majority (which helped bring us the Crusades).  But then the conflict has little to do with who came 'first', since 'first' depends on who's doing the counting.

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On 7/16/2024 at 1:40 PM, RSF said:

The Bible is a Christian manuscript, not a Jewish one, although the 1st 5 books of the Old Testament do come from the Torah.  The Talmud is more central to the Jewish religion. 

So, you're saying that what I said was correct and still being pedantic?

On 7/16/2024 at 1:40 PM, RSF said:

But its a historical fact that the Jewish population of Palestine pre-dates the founding of the Muslim religion by several hundred years, and its really not in dispute.  Muslims didnt become the dominant demographic until after the Muslim conquest in the 7th century, when Christians were actually in the majority (which helped bring us the Crusades).  But then the conflict has little to do with who came 'first', since 'first' depends on who's doing the counting.

Yes, there were jews in the middle east before muhammad was born. That's not what all the fuss is about, tho.

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On 7/16/2024 at 3:46 PM, smltwnrckr said:

So, you're saying that what I said was correct and still being pedantic?

I dont know what this means.  But then I had already removed it as going to far down a rabbit hole.

 

On 7/16/2024 at 3:46 PM, smltwnrckr said:

 

Yes, there were jews in the middle east before muhammad was born. That's not what all the fuss is about, tho.

No, the fuss is about Palestine being holy to three major world religions.  Which is why I pointed out it really doesnt matter who came 1st.

 

 

Gets even wilder if you take it back to Isaac and Ishmael.

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On 7/16/2024 at 1:50 PM, RSF said:

I dont know what this means.  But then I had already removed it as going to far down a rabbit hole.

It means it seems like you were arguing without saying I was wrong. I used Bible stories for a specific reason... the idea of a singular, judeochristian tradition and connection is necessary to keep american support for Israeli policies in Palestine. There's a reason most of these discoveries are also somehow related to the stories that also are in the Bible. 

On 7/16/2024 at 1:50 PM, RSF said:

No, the fuss is about Palestine being holy to three major world religions.  Which is why I pointed out it really doesnt matter who came 1st.

People being mad about 20th and 21st century settlements in Palestine has little to do with the fact that there are millenia old Christian, Muslim and Jewish sites near each other.

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On 7/16/2024 at 3:56 PM, smltwnrckr said:

It means it seems like you were arguing without saying I was wrong. I used Bible stories for a specific reason... the idea of a singular, judeochristian tradition and connection is necessary to keep american support for Israeli policies in Palestine. There's a reason most of these discoveries are also somehow related to the stories that also are in the Bible. 

 

Which has nothing to do with the root of the problem.

On 7/16/2024 at 3:56 PM, smltwnrckr said:

 

People being mad about 20th and 21st century settlements in Palestine has little to do with the fact that there are millenia old Christian, Muslim and Jewish sites near each other.

Sure, ok.

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On 7/16/2024 at 2:02 PM, RSF said:

Which has nothing to do with the root of the problem.

 Using sacred texts and relics to justify contemporary state policies. And making sure those texts and relics are relevant to the most powerful people in the world's superpower is very much tied to the root of the problem. 

On 7/16/2024 at 2:02 PM, RSF said:

Sure, ok.

You're right. Palestinians not being allowed to drive on the same roads as Israelis, and having to quarter troops in their own homes against their will, is just because the wailing wall and Al-Aqsa are near each other. 

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Good segment that offers a look into the relationship between archaeology and state power in Israel. 

The project that is the focus here may or may not be related at all to the research in the OP.

 

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