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Reading the Bible from a secular POV is kind of awesome. The Old Testament reads like a multigenerational political epic with a tribal war god running the show, crazy stuff
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Anonymous 12h

If you want to do more secular research and have a better understanding, I recommend my fav Youtuber called UsefulCharts. A historian dude who makes awesome charts about history and religions :)

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Anonymous 14m

Whats your understanding of how they ended up with commands “from god” that they never followed? (Like the Sabbath and Jubilee year, its specifically mentioned they never followed those, not once)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12h

I’ve read the Bible from a non-secular POV when I was at a Catholic highschool lol, I’m very familiar with the text but this is my first time reading it from a secular POV as an adult. I find religion fascinating though and have been reading a lot of the Greek and Norse mythological epics and the overlap between those kinds of texts and the Old Testament has been pretty cool

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2m

Most secular scholars actually think those laws may have been written during or after the Babylonian exile, not at Sinai. So they were likely aspirational reforms being projected backwards onto Moses to give them authority. So they were more like ‘here’s what we should have been doing all along.’ I think that theory is the called the documentary hypothesis if you wanted to look more into it.

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