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To: hlmencken3
I call your attention to post #14 on this thread by "John Locke" (and not by "Thomas Paine," as I erroneously stated; my apologies to all concerned for the error).

I shall quote it in full:

Sorry, but that is pure wishful thinking. The three dates in question - 586 BC for the Babylonian conquest, 538 for the Persian release of the Jews, and 331 for the arrival of Alexander - are just about as certain as any dates in the Ancient Near East. They are attested by multiple chronologies from multiple peoples.

Your attempts to date mythological people is a harmless pastime, but bald assertions that "the secularists are wrong" about true and verifiable history can serve only to persuade people that the Jews are idiots, which is not an attitude I would like to see in this forum.

If I recall correctly, none of the Orthodox Jews on this forum responded to this insult.

32 posted on 06/23/2006 8:14:11 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Barukh Kevod HaShem mimMeqomo!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

This is another one of those issues where ancient Torah Sages have explored the controversy in far greater honesty, depth and sophistication than their naieve Jew-hating Christian counterparts.

If religious Jews refuted every single Christian falsehood, insult and misunderstanding, no time would remain for Torah.


33 posted on 07/04/2006 4:29:02 AM PDT by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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