Look, JCR,Where is your evidence for this? These were not the overlords, but
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For JCR only, it seems:Here goes:
The points which you clearly have failed to understand are these:
1) These were "city" mice forced to wander in a waste.
2) "City" mice are accustomed to customs.All people are accustomed to customs. What you need to show is that
3) Custom hardens into rules very fast..Even among nomadic and seminomadic peoples? Even among rural peoples?
4) The customs in the ANE required certain dimensions and formats for
presenting legal documents as coming from an authority.
5) The tablets would have had to meet these expected customary forms to beThis is a leap, to say that they had to be tablets.
accepted as authoritative... whether or not there was a wall to display
them on. In this case, they were placed in a carry-case called an ark
6) Moshe is described as following custom when he presents the tablets toWhere is this found in Tanakh? Or are you making assumptions based on
the people.
7) From the evidence of the PaleoLev scroll, once there were walls to putHistory, as presented in Tanakh, indicates that there were no official
them on, they followed custom and displayed the Torah on the wall. (They
also returned to "city" mousery as soon as they could... something that
tends to be ignored.)
8) The customs of the ANE in presenting authoritative documents continuedBut did Judea follow that custom? While you have done well in
in use essentially unchanged through the entire Greco-Roman, Medieval, and
early Renaissance periods
9) Remnants of these ancient customs survive to this day.(e.g. legal size
paper; black equals law; stripes equal rank).
10) If you wish to maintain otherwise, you must provide the contradictory
evidence.
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risa
Dr. Rochelle I. S. Altman
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