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- From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
- Message-ID: <fVj9lWw@quack.sac.ca.us>
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- References: <1e5m2jINNob7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <10762@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:53:06 UTC
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- In article <10762@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
- >In article <1e5m2jINNob7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman) writes:
- >>The OT is a narritive of the growth of
- >>the human race as a moral species. It is the story of God trying
- >>to teach us right from wrong.
- > Only if you define the human race as the nation of Israel and the
- > surrounding kingdoms of the time.
- > I think the far east, North America, Europe, etc. would take exception
- > to this statement, and rightly so.
-
- The same can be said of the Mahabharata and the Epic of Gilgamesh and
- many other great myths that have a great deal in common. These are
- national or tribal stories that are of course tribal-centric. It doesn't
- take a great leap to discover that the Epic of Gilgamesh, for example,
- applies to all of humankind, not just Persians.
-