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Joann
, May 05, 2009
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This is an excellent book-by-book examination of the Old and New Testaments, giving the origins of the mythologies therein. It helped me formulate my own conviction that all religions are pastiches, stuck together from bits and pieces of what came before. Many of the contradictions are explained by these multiple origins. Why, for instance, are there two creation stories in Genesis? They come from the "Elohist" and "Yahwist" stories that seem contradictory when attributed to one consistent divinity, but which make sense when you realize they are different deities the authors of the books attempted to incorporate and combine as their beliefs changed over time. Religions evolve -- who'd a thunk it?
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