Bible Folklore does not Render its Historical Message Void

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Old speculative story

This is an old story and uses a classical fallacy of rhetoric, namely that since the idea cant be debunked, it must be true. It is sort of like saying "the Missing link did exist but no fossil remains exist" its nice because you cant disprove it and by writing a book on it, it seems to cast doubt on something. This book wants to cast doubt on the Bible and the question of where monotheisim originated and in another retelling of a typical debunking exersize, we are told it originated with AKhanotons cult in Egypt. The problem is their is no evidence of this, just as their is almost no evidence that the Jews or Israelites or Hebrews were ever in Egypt. Its the irony that this book wants us to suspect one part of the Bible, namely the question of Sinai and the question of G-ds role with Abraham, while at the same time not questioning the authenticity of the entire Bible. How can one pick and choose? How can this book argue that the part about Sinai and the revelation is innacurate, but the part about being slaves in Egypt is true. It doesnt add up, either one accepts the Bible, or they dont, thats a matter of faith and no amount of psuedo-archeology will prove or disapprove the unprovable.^M

Greenberg takes the Mystery out of the biblical Moses

There really IS a lot of mystery about the biblical Moses. For example,...Why did Moses even GO into the desert for 40 years????? It never made sense to me.