Funny how anything in the TaNa"KH requires verification from another source but the histories of the ancient pagan nations are accepted at face value.
I also wonder just how much of human historical knowledge would meet your test.
To question some of the accounts of the Torah is not anti-semitic in any sense. That's just nuts. You might falsely, but more reasonably, accuse me of being anti-religious for questioning it, but you're making a leap that is illogical, and frankly shameful.
No, it is shameful for Bible-bashers to pretend that the Bible isn't Jewish. I'm sorry, but anti-Semitism is opposition to "Semitism," and if "Semitism" isn't the Torah, then what is it? Woody Allen movies? Lenny Bruce comedy routines? Turn of the last century needletrade unions? Yiddish theater? Sorry, the purest form of "Semitism" is Biblical religion.
The free ride of atheists attacking the Jewish Bible by associating it with "ignorant hillbillies" is over. Live with it.
I suggest you read the article posted the other day written by this liberal hypocrite who attacked Mitt Romney for his religious beliefs but then said that that isn't the same as attacking someone's "religious heritage." "Heritage" without the beliefs is nothing but moonbeams. Keep that in mind the next time you insist you aren't "attacking anyone" when you're attacking someone for what he actually believes to be true. Or just scroll a little higher in this thread and see my post on Mircea Elieade (mach shemo!)--a former member of the murderously anti-Semitic Romanian Iron Guard, btw.
You're equating the Torah with the Jews. One is a historical and religious document, and the other is a religion and race of people. Writings, people, two different things.
Whether you like it or not, it's perfectly reasonable for anyone to question whether the Torah is in an infallible history book or whether it might be something less. It's no reflection on the Jews if it's something less than 100% accurate. It is what it is, no matter what your opinion, or mine, is about it.
Nobody has suggested that the Torah isn't Jewish. Where do you make this crap up?
And keep in mind that I didn't attack anyone on this thread with my comment you responded to with allegations of septic tank anti-semitism.
You can have the last word. I've established to my satisfaction that you are a nasty poster with no constructive arguments or thoughts to offer. So have at it if it makes you feel more self-righteous.