96 124. THE PILLARS OF THE WORLD The world stands upon pillars. Some say it stands on twelve pillars, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. Others say that it rests on seven pillars, which stand on the water. This water is on top of the mountains, which rest on wind and […]
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Judaism The Truth about the Jewish Scriptures Abstract Christians and Jews say scripture is the place to start to understand Jewish history. It is not. Critical scholars consider that the Jewish bible is a pious fraud, containing a little history hard to discern among the fiction, propagated for theological reasons. If David once lived, but […]
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