More wrongness at r/AcademicBiblical

 I "couldn't help" but visit there again recently.

Here's a mix of errors there plus WTFs.

While Saul's 100 foreskins from David was seemingly bizarre, the fact that an "evil spirit" came on him the next day does NOT mean, contra this, that he was "possessed" at that time. And, in the context of 1 Samuel 18, with an assist from Paul Davidson, it's not actually bizarre. Rather, this is a "bounty marker," like ears of dead coyotes being sent to US Fish and Wildlife.

Also per that assist from Paul, much of 1 Samuel 18 is NOT in the LXX. Anybody who knows much about textual criticism of the Tanakh knows that the Former Prophets in general are the worst part of the Hebrew Bible. Missing? Among other things, the "evil" spirit in v. 10. 

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Disagree with Paul Davidson (Captain Haddock) and others, whether they're just citing largely continental academics or they actually agree, in answers on this piece, that Eden in Genesis 2-3 is at least partially metaphorical for the Temple and the Fall a metaphor for the Babylonian Exile. The problem is that this is J material, unless you're claiming VERY late editing for it, or else entirely throwing the documentary hypothesis out the window. I don't buy either one. Per this post, if we restrict ourselves to the first half, could Eden be metaphorical for the Temple? Yes. But, standing by Genesis 2-3 being J material, you have to find some other answer for what the Fall is then metaphorical of. If it's a general expulsion from the presence of (the) god(s), a la end of golden age myths in general? I'm OK with that.

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Here, a discussion of the origin of Yahweh which doesn't mention the Midianite hypothesis. 

And related, at another post? At least in my book, contra this commenter, the Midianite hypothesis is not the same as the Kenite hypothesis.

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That said, sometimes the post itself is the laugher, like this guy asking people to back him up on his claim that Adam and Eve got booted from Eden for having a three-way with a second male. This is also once again a failure of moderators for leaving this post up, including any that are left from two years ago when they ganged up to ban me.

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If you don't get the idea of puns, or don't get grammatical gender, then don't push back against the answers you get. 

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