Dear Peter Kirk,
I can hardly understand how you bring under a hat the otherwise not so shameful attitude of the age of Moses and later versus something like a golden calf and the treatment given it in the Sinai story.
Furthermore there exists no such divine interdiction to the Israelites to
wear gold jewels to feature as a deuteronomic law. ...
Besides, once one has rejected the current reading of this text, there is no
need to explain how the bible redactor envisioned the posibility to drink
gold. He certainly ...
... took Numbers 5,11-31 as a model for a divine ordeal, but to make this function with gold and on such a scale, one ought have lots of fantasy. Beg your pardon, I don“t have the fantasy to imagine such a grotesque scene. I see you all try to make function the practically impossible.
Do you have an idea how long it would take by artisanal bronze age methods to
transform a gold statue into fine powder instead only molting it (should
somebody just want to destroy it)? Perhaps up to a week or so. The reverse
process would take much lesser.
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