Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!rjb From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: a deific gender question (Jewish Goddesses) Message-ID: <946@akgua.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 12:34:26 EDT Article-I.D.: akgua.946 Posted: Mon Aug 20 12:34:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 01:30:08 EDT Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 28 >>My theory is that none of the Patriarchs existed historically (at least not >>as single individuals), but that the stories told of there lives in the Old >>Testament are compilations of the lives of several generations of leaders. >>I say this because I don't believe that anybody ever lived as long as the >>Patriarchs are said to. As is the case with all mythology, a considerable >>amount of material has accrued around the original myths, some of this borrowed >>from peoples that the Jews came in contact with during their extensive >>wanderings. Mr Wood, Do you have any independent (of the Bible) sources that show the Jews wandered extensively as a cohesive unit ? If not, then how can you be found consistent when you disbelieve one part of the text (the ages of the Patriarchs) but accept another part (the wanderings of the Jews) ? I realize that it is possible to discriminate between truth and error in many contexts but what is the basis of dicrimination here ? Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb} AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga (404) 447-3784 ... Cornet 583-3784