I wonder how they managed to tell a complex story like that before the invention of writing?

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    but hasnt every story from the bible been found in earlier scripts like from qumran already? not a single word in the bible is not some enhanced copy of an older story already found elsewhere. religion is so sad.

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      2 months ago

      The earlier parts of this lecture by Irving Finkel talk about what happened when they first translated the more original flood story from stone tablets in 1872. And the rest of the lecture is a nice story about an adventure, so I can only recommend watching the whole thing.