makes me curious about that thread tourist.
It's a great article, speaking as the one that posted it.
It wasn't my intention to invite dark rebuke from the usual suspects. Rather, it was my intention to advance the discussion concerning the Serpent in Genesis that is underway in a different thread in BDF.
It has long been known that the Jews did not, do not, have a Satan in their Bible as we understand the adversary to be in our own New Testament teachings.
I find that fascinating, the evolution if you will, of the literature from early centuries as there are debates still as to when the texts that are the Hebrew bible came to be.
"There is abundant biblical and extra-biblical evidence that Moses wrote the Pentateuch during the wilderness wanderings after the Jews left their slavery in Egypt and before they entered the Promised Land (about 1445–1405 BC)."
And Don Stewart with
BlueLetterBible.org explains,
"The books were probably recognized individually. The books after Moses were written by a number of different people during a one thousand year period. Most likely, they were individually recognized as being canonical. When the recognition that the prophetic gift had been removed from the nation (about 400 B.C.) these writings were then put into clearly defined divisions. The Old Testament Scripture was probably collected by Ezra.
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The sacred writings were always placed in the temple. First century writer Flavius Josephus tells us that the sacred writings were kept in the temple in Jerusalem before its destruction in A.D. 70. This is consistent with the recorded episode of
Hilkiah discovering the Book of the Law in the temple during the reign of King Josiah (630 B.C
.). When all the evidence is considered we have a consistent testimony to the existence of sacred writings from the time of Moses until the time that the second temple was destroyed in the year A.D. 70.
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I love to study the history of the word. I posted that thread for those who are of the same mind. So that we can expand our understanding and horizons in our personal study of Soteriology, Apologetics, Bibliology, or whatever discipline holds our attention.
If you choose to enter into the thread, How the Serpent Became Satan, I think it would be grand to add civil discourse to what was assailed immediately by that which holds ranker for what they do not understand, nor respect.
Bad Net, no soup for you! 