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Book of Tobit provides template for the geography of Job-Tobias

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  by Damien F. Mackey     However, apart from the seeming advantages – but also the difficulties, e.g. the “midway” factor – the Book of Tobit gives no indication whatsoever that Tobias had dwelt anywhere other than Nineveh, for the duration of his long life, except that he had headed to Ecbatana in Media after the death of his parents, where he had lived out the remainder of his life (Tobit 14:12-15).       1.       Born in the land of Naphtali   If Tobit 1 is following a strict chronological sequence, then young Tobias was born in Naphtali shortly prior to the tribe’s captivity by Shalmaneser ‘the Great’ (who is my Tiglath-pileser, cf . 2 Kings 15:29). Thus Tobit tells in his Autobiography (1:9-10): “When I became a man I married Anna, a member of our family, and by her I became the father of Tobias. Now when I was carried away captive to Nineveh …”.   Tobias, who is my Job, may have been too young t...

Moses found the Israelites revolting

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  by Damien F. Mackey     Aaron hilariously (if it weren’t so serious) replies (Exodus 32:24): “So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off’, and they gave it to me. When I threw it into the fire, out came this calf ! ’” As if the end result were pure accident.       Introduction Once mighty Egypt, now - following on from the devastating Plagues and the Exodus - would cease to be a power for a long time, virtually disappearing from the Bible for roughly half a millennium. And, despite the fact that the Exodus Israelites had, in their first encounter with an enemy, defeated the Amalekites at Rephidim ( Beer Karkom ), the Amalekites would continue for that period of time to be a dominant power in the land of Canaan. They may well even have overrun fallen Egypt, as the warlike Hyksos people, referred to by some (e.g. Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky) as Egypt’s “Eleventh Plague”.   The great man, Moses, who had been commissioned t...

Neanderthals were not a different species

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    “… some human populations such as Australian aboriginals indeed share with archaic humans like Neanderthals a robust skull with pronounced brow ridges, which [led] Darwin’s bulldog, Thomas Huxley (in Lyell 1863), to compare them with Neanderthals”.   Günter Bechly       This comes as no surprise whatsoever to me (Damien Mackey). See e.g. my articles:   Neanderthals need to be re-written   (5) Neanderthals need to be rewritten   Messing with the Neanderthals   (5) Messing with the Neanderthals   Neanderthals could speak   (5) Neanderthals could speak   See also Dr. Jack Cuozzo’s book ( Buried Alive ).   We read at: New Evidence for Human Nature of Neanderthals | Science and Culture Today   Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals Günter Bechly February 2, 2024   The reconstruction of Neanderthal appearance and behavior has...