Can an ex-con like you understand that what I read in the OT is taken literally and not taking a verse here, a sentence there and a word here? With no cherry picking.Another thing about history is through the ages, tribal people had storytellers. The storytellers had apprentices who learned tribal history by rote. Stories were passed down for thousands of years until writing became a substitute. Then stories that were passed down were put on written pages. Among warlike tribes, storytellers were well protected or sent to a safe location until a battle was over. Then they would be given a detailed account of the battle. Storytellers and apprentices would then absorb the story into memory by rote.First you say there was no Temple, then you say it was a fairy tale, then there was a Temple, then it's a hasbera lie, now there's a Temple. So WTF is there or under there?Based on what, the OT. Too funny. It was common in ancient time to build a church over the ruins of another's church, signified control of the land, also Herods temple was replaced with a Christian Church, then the Mosque, , today we do not tear down historical sites and build over them.
Was or was not, no difference, and the stories in the OT are so far fetched to be true is beyond reality. I do believe it was a very traveled area, from Egypt to Assyria, and the coastline of the Med. Sea. The hill people are not much of relevance except they most likely pirated traders en route.
Abraham is your god, the god of a man who pimps his wife for his protection, and then his son who does the same. His nephew offered his dtr to townsmen, why, because the angles could not fend for themselves. Lets hope these are stories, as Abraham was about ready to burther his second son , because of a auditory hallucination. The Phoenicians Kings use to do that , historical according to Eusebius, when they were losing their kingdom, as a last chance. Even one Hebrew won a battle and knowing his dtr would be the first to greet him on arrival to his home, offered her as a sacrifice if he could win the battle and he did as said in the bible. Some is most likely true, but not based on anyone known , oral stories, we know how oral stories go. The get bigger and bigger every time they are told.
The Stele of ancient Egypt and the words of Roman historians tell the same tales, yet here is yiu a soi called Christian denying the very foundation of your belief once you realised that your god was a Jewish rabbi .
Abraham was never a God until you muslims took him as your own, and you still worship him when you go on haj
One example about storytellers for American tribes is if one is killed he was the one who was mourned the most.
In some cases stories were fudged a little for the sake of delicate ears.For example, the story about David slaying a lion was changed to say: "....and David slew the the lion..." instead of truthfully saying "....and David stomped the shit out of that sumbitch....."
Can a rodeo dude like you distiguish between a story and history?
Can you explain the texts contradictions about the temple mount place?