Henke 2022ba

No Historic Evidence for Any of His Greek and Hebrew Examples No Matter How Lundahl (2022a) and (2022k) Classify Them

Kevin R. Henke

September 15, 2022

Next, Lundahl (2022k) and I discuss the classification of Greek myths. In Henke (2022b), I state:

“When discussing the Cyclops, Lundahl (2022a) indicates that he prefers to divide Greek mythology into “divine myths” and “heroic legend.” He further states that the former is generally not believed by Christians, but the latter is generally accepted unless there are specific reasons against it.”

Lundahl (2022k) makes the following reply:

“Generally accepted historically speaking. I was not claiming that Christians today do so.”

Henke (2022b) continues:

“However, I would argue that unless either mythical group has good external evidence, there is no good reason to believe any Greek mythology, no matter how they may be classified or subdivided into different categories.”

Lundahl (2022k) further replies:

“My point is that heroic legend at least for some of the external action has fairly good historic evidence - narratives believed to be historic by the first audience. For divine myths like most in Theogony or like Genesis 1, not falling under human observation at all or claiming to do so, the proper argument is prophecy, and I think God speaking to Moses after parting the Red Sea is a superior reason to believe genuine prophecy took place over Hesiod seeing and hearing the song of nine muses, whatever between demons, witches, or his own imaginations these were. But Hesiod being a shepherd and Moses having parted the Red Sea are on the other hand per se historically known things if true.”

Here, Lundahl (2022k) again invokes his worthless “first audience” charade, which is refuted in Henke (2022b), Henke (2022bh) and elsewhere in this debate. The bottom line is that these stories, including the ones in the Bible about the Talking Snake, prophecy, and Moses parting the Red Sea, don’t have any historical or scientific support no matter how Mr. Lundahl classifies them. Lundahl (2022k) has absolutely no basis to claim that God speaking to Moses is any more historical than Icarus flying. Mr. Lundahl just wants the entire Bible to be true even though he has no evidence to support his desire. As I’ve mentioned before, archeologists Finkelstein and Silberman (2001) discuss the actual origin of ancient Israel and it has nothing to do with Exodus and the Red Sea. Mr. Lundahl continues to ignore this and my other references in his essays in this debate (Henke 2022at).

Reference:

Finkelstein, I. and N.A. Silberman. 2001. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts: The Free Press: New York, USA, 385pp.