torah

It's well known that christians and jews argue that the slavery related in the bible/torah was practiced in a way to protect the slave. They say that the slaves were more like debt servants and treated with dignity by their masters. History professor at the London University, Catherine Hezser...

Supposedly, the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) were all written by Moses. A number of anachronisms in the text, however, tell us that Moses, who, were he a real, historical person, lived either ca. 1450 or ca. 1200, could not have written the Torah. For starters, let's...

My fellow skeptics, I would like to introduce to you a topic that will not be familiar – completely new territory. It is, in effect, the World’s most ancient wordsearch puzzle, and I call it the Genesis Seal. What I am looking for is some well thought-through, rational feedback (though I expect...

Inflammatory title, no? That was not my intention. Rather, I wish to open up the discussion of the specifics of the Old Testament and why they may have come about. I'm talking about dining practices, hygienics and any/all of the other great stuff in the OT/Torah. Not if they are useful...

Please forgive me if this has already been discussed (I did do a search and failed to see anything quite like this...but then again I may not have looked closely enough!). What do all of you think of the Bible code? I am watching a program on the History channel about this, there are various...