tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post5039517953047541563..comments2023-07-21T06:32:36.658-07:00Comments on A P O C A L O O P S I S: ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-75142667821797034492007-10-16T16:50:00.000-07:002007-10-16T16:50:00.000-07:00Errata: "villages", "their".Errata: "villages", "their".Glenn Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627596990910607139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-60863446591088657142007-10-16T16:46:00.000-07:002007-10-16T16:46:00.000-07:00Another book which draws many of the same conclusi...Another book which draws many of the same conclusions mentioned here is The Bible Unearthed, by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. (New York: The Free Press, 2001). One of Finkelstein and Silberman's findings is that there were two groups of Canaanite vilages, differentiated by one thing: The presence or absence of pig bones. One supposes that it is possible that the Jews were distinguished from other Canaanites first by they dietary restrictions, and that everything else in Torah is "back history," trying to explain in some rational way how this difference came about.Glenn Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627596990910607139noreply@blogger.com