Sir William Matthew Flinders PetrieFRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis, Tanis, Abydos and Amarna. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, [ 2 ] an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. [ 3 ]
What If The Bible Had Never Existed???
by ziddina 82 Replies latest jw friends
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FlyingHighNow
Oops, Zidd, maybe your theory doesn't hold water in the face of archeological evidence. Not trying to be a smart ass, just posting in the same spirit you are: the "Aha! Got you!" spirit.
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Mad Sweeney
If you believe in dozens or hundreds of gods but worship your local favorite in your home, are you a monotheist?
I don't think so. You're still a polytheist. Why?
Because if your village gets its ass kicked by another tribe, you'll gladly take on worship of their god(s).
It's kind of like following sports is today. You have your home team. Say, the Saint Louis Cardinals of the NFL. Then, the Cards move to Arizona. You sort of still like them because they're your team, but you now have some freedom to look around the league for a new favorite. But then the Rams move to Saint Louis. What next? Is there really only one team for you? No, you buy Rams tickets and go to their games now. At no time in all this do you deny the existence of merit of any other team in the NFL. You just have a favorite. Maybe you picked the Cowboys (for some unknown reason many people do) before the Rams moved in and maybe you stay with the 'Girls or you jump to the new home team Rams.
If there was any monotheism in ancient times in the middle east and Europe, it was as loose as what I describe above, which to me isn't monotheism at all. It's polytheism.
That said, we're forgetting the far east. There was a huge pantheon in India but not quite the same way we have gods in the west. And then there are the pantheists. I'd like to think I'd be a pantheist.
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FlyingHighNow
More interesting information about Flinders Petrie:
http://archaeology.about.com/od/pterms/g/petriewf.htm
Definition: British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was one of the pioneers of the science, conducting archaeology primarily in Egypt and Palestine. He excavated at the Pyramids of Giza between 1880 and 1882, and conducted surveys in the Fayyum Depression, and excavated at predynastic cemeteries of Naqada, Diaspolis Parva and Abadiya.
It was in these last studies that Petrie developed his still-very-useful seriation analysis, which compared percentages of styles of artifacts to relatively date sites and occupations. Seriation was not of practical use for anybody but Petrie until the 1970s, when computers could be brought to bear on the massive amount of data. Remarkably, Petrie did it with slips of paper.
Professionally, Petrie was associated with the Egypt Exploration Fund and Palestine Exploration Fund, and was the first Edwards professor of Egyptology at the University of London. -
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still thinking
If the bible had Never existed, God would have used another method to communicate to us.
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Mad Sweeney
That would have been great then because the Bible is an EPIC FAIL.
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FlyingHighNow
The Bible is an epic fail and it is an epic success. It all depends on your point of view.
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unshackled
That would have been great then because the Bible is an EPIC FAIL.
Agreed Sweeney. Unless one considers suppression of women, mutilation and abuse of children, slavery, genocide, infanticide, hate for homosexuals success...then sure, the bible was an epic success.
