Posted on 07/02/2018 10:00:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
[a month later] Nope. The discovery of the archive led to a need for a name for the so-called "Forgotten Empire", so the name was plucked from the Old Testament.
This topic was posted , thanks SeekAndFind. An update ping.
The witch of endor story reads like an incident or two from the odyssey or some other greek story about an encounter with a witch. I consider it one of the huge practical things that the ancient jews did was to outlaw all forms of witchcraft and divination (I don’t know if astrology was in the mix. Numerology was not.) I think these were lessons learned from the world of the ancient sumerians from which abraham came. But Maybe not.
If all the stories, places and names in the Bible were simply fictitious narratives, it would be a massive effort for a lot of people to imagine these stories, no?
The simplist explanation is that they are mostly true with a dose of propaganda added. Occam’s Razon.
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