05.09.09
Reading WHEE: archaeology of Old Testament
Continuing our reading guide for WHEE,Reading-whee,
we come to the tricky question of the history behind the Old Testament, and the eonic effect: first things first, we need to study the archaeological background to the histories, so-called, of Israel/Judah. The book The Bible Unearthed is a good resource for that.
The Bible unearthed A renewed sense of the extraordinary significance of the Old Testament leaves us with a question, What is the Bible recording? Theistic historicism or an Axial transformation? The natural division into three sections, the Torah, the Prophets, and the post-exilic writings of the period Ezra and Nehemiah, gives the clue: the prophetic period straddles the Axial interval and this, as we will see, is period of transition to a new era, leading to its conclusion at a point of ‘divide’, ca. –600, in its enigmatic synchrony with Greek, Indian, Chinese, and other parallels. We can decipher this transition by comparison with its isomorphic instances, as in the emergence of Classical Greece from the Greek Archaic. The Bible comes into existence and begins to crystallize in the generation of the Great Reformation of Josiah at the conclusion of its Axial transition.
Zarathustra And The Old Testament Enigma
Here are the first two:
1. http://darwiniana.com/2009/05/06/reading-whee-new-category-and-reading-guide/
2. http://darwiniana.com/2009/05/07/the-connection-of-history-and-evolution-2/