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Actually, the word that historians would use to describe the reflection (a very minimal reflection) that you think Genesis offers of the world's history is .................... underdetermined.
I will admit that, like you, I appreciate the fact that the basic layout of Genesis is a better descriptor of the world and its Ancient Near Eastern history than is anything we find in the Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian myths and accounts. But even so, that's not saying a whole lot because, let's face it, early world history as Moses saw it is only represented by about 1/5 th of the book of Genesis, and even that doesn't reflect a whole lot of detail or mirror much of what we now know about A.N.E. history during the Bronze Age.
However, some of the history that comes AFTER the Bronze Age and the Bronze Dark Ages does begin to reflect a bit better. But that is what we'd expect through the centuries going into the Iron Age and then into the Classical Age as different writers took up the chisel (maybe a pen) to carve out some words for posterity.
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Y'know, I'm trying to be patient with you, but you're making it increasingly more difficult with all of your deprecating speech. Surely they don't teach you to talk this way at your church, right?
