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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: Inconsistency in the bible
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.131344.6748@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Aug17.142135.21947@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug18.051516.26741@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:13:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.051516.26741@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott) writes:
- }m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- }: Ah. A historical document much like the Illiad or "Why the elephant has a
- }: trunk"? I understand that. Perhaps a better word would by "hysterical"?
- }
- }I don't know if you have a particular axe to grind, but my original post
- }actually pointed out that these contradictions/doublets are known, and
- }quite happily explained by orthodox biblical scholars.
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- I've read your reference. Perhaps you are confused: explaining why the sky
- is blue does not make it change colors. Nor does addressing the authorship
- eliminate the errors.
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