Professor Pierre Briant Judaism How Persia Created Judaism: The Rise of Persia Abstract The shah had divine authority. He was God’s chosen one, and held his hand. Shahs were God’s regent on earth. To justify it, they propagated monotheism in the lands they conquered. For Persians, Ahuramazda was the only true god, and each subject […]
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Old Testament Research and Criticism Michael D Magee 5* INFO
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Judaism – The Truth about the Jewish Scriptures Mike Magee 5*+++
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 […]
Truth – The Failed Hypothesis of God – Mike Magee 5*INFO
Truth The Failed Hypothesis of God Abstract God is an old hypothesis meant to explain what was inexplicable. It has no place in the modern world, where science has shown how hypotheses can be tested and rejected or accepted on the basis of their success in prediction. The hypothesis has it that God is a […]