Certainly, the Bible and the stories it records are more complex than “literal” history, in a fundamentalist Christian sense of “literal.” And certainly, understanding the historical and literary traditions within the Bible is a complex matter.
But it’s posts like this, citing half-baked theories and unsupported upchuck from an obviously biased position that merely retrenches the general public in a religious impasse, deadlocking us in theories that even many modern scholars – of all varieties – consider nonsense or outdated.
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