juantoo3
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Kindest Regards, paganprophet!
In other words, so what?
Suggesting Israel was Canaanitish is a bit disingenuous, in that #1, Israel didn't even exist yet except for the father of many nations Abraham (*many nations besides Israel and Islam*), and #2, you just got done saying how Biblical history is inaccurate. Either there is a remote hint of historical accuracy and that Abraham was called to leave the vicinity of Canaan (and the pagans that lived there), or else someone is mixing up various periods of history in an effort to mislead those who haven't looked at the historical timeline or followed the story from beginning to end. Personally, I am satisfied that there is sufficient historical veracity even if the details might be somewhat off. The 12 tribes are all mentioned again in the New Testament book of Revelations, minus Dan who was already ostracized. In Revelations the two half tribes are given full tribe status. Perhaps not any sufficient kind of verification for someone looking to dismiss the Bible, but to me it serves as a further witness to the veracity of the 12 tribes. Even so, I don't believe we are going to begin setting our calendars by the blessings bestowed on the 12 patriarchal brothers...perhaps there is some degree of metaphor and allegory, embellishment and mythos. I don't see where that means Judaism (and by extension Christianity) should start throwing their babies out with the bathwater.
You wouldn't be moving the goalposts now, would you? While there might be a bit of wiggle room pertaining to history during the time of Moses and before, the history from the time of Solomon on is generally held to be fairly reliable by scholars, at least as reliable as any other sources from that period of time. So let us not conflate the two. There is historic time, which to this point you have been convoluting, and there is mythic time, of which now you are attempting to equate and confuse.You're assuming that the Bible's history reflects real history. Those tribes of Israel..you need to step beyond the Bible and do some research on Near Eastern history to find out for yourself that ancient biblical writers confused places with people, nations with people, and gods with people, and didn't tell the truth as it really was.
Whether or not these translational issues may be true is irrelevant to the names of the tribes. Think of it this way, how many Charlies do you know? Let's see, there's your brother (or uncle or other close relative), your neighbor, your best buddy in high school, your favorite teacher, the guy at the butcher shop, the guy at the tire store...and Charles Manson. Even if your brother or any of these guys actually was named after Charlie Manson, they are not Charles Manson.E.g. Asher wasn't an Israelite tribe but the god of Assyria. Gad too is another pagan god, a goat god I think as the headwaters of the Jordan flow out of Baal Gad spring, dedicated to a Pan-like goat god.
Judah scribes never told you that even the word "Benjamin" has nothing to do with Abrahamic monotheism nor does it mean a ravenous wolf as in the Genesis description--it refers directly to the ancient worship of Yamm, the Canaanite sea and river god of judgment. "Ben"= "Sons of" Yamm.
In other words, so what?
So the history you've accepted as real includes Israelite monotheistic tribes named after pagan gods and I think they included pagan believers as well. These tribes didn't disappear-they were part of the Canaanite pagans to which the Israelites also belonged before the fall of Canaan to Egypt.
Suggesting Israel was Canaanitish is a bit disingenuous, in that #1, Israel didn't even exist yet except for the father of many nations Abraham (*many nations besides Israel and Islam*), and #2, you just got done saying how Biblical history is inaccurate. Either there is a remote hint of historical accuracy and that Abraham was called to leave the vicinity of Canaan (and the pagans that lived there), or else someone is mixing up various periods of history in an effort to mislead those who haven't looked at the historical timeline or followed the story from beginning to end. Personally, I am satisfied that there is sufficient historical veracity even if the details might be somewhat off. The 12 tribes are all mentioned again in the New Testament book of Revelations, minus Dan who was already ostracized. In Revelations the two half tribes are given full tribe status. Perhaps not any sufficient kind of verification for someone looking to dismiss the Bible, but to me it serves as a further witness to the veracity of the 12 tribes. Even so, I don't believe we are going to begin setting our calendars by the blessings bestowed on the 12 patriarchal brothers...perhaps there is some degree of metaphor and allegory, embellishment and mythos. I don't see where that means Judaism (and by extension Christianity) should start throwing their babies out with the bathwater.