It’s just simply fascinating to see what so called ‘amateurs’ do to the biblical text. Even though ‘amateur’ means ‘love’ when such a person distorts, twists, manipulates, and decontextualizes the texts at hand they show themselves to be anything but ‘lovers’ of the Bible.
Yet another dilettante has recently opined that the narrative about Moses proves he was a drug user. AFP reports
High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy. “As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,” Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.
What an idiot. They must pass out Professorships like crack in the hood these days.
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Yeah, I once heard a full professor of biblical studies here state that John of Patmos was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs when he “experienced” the visions of the Revelation.
So, clearly they are passing out professorships like porn at Bible camp these days.
Jim,
I could not agree with you more! The passing out of “Professorships like crack in the hood these days” also goes for those dilettantes who say things that in the past you have agree with … (e.g., Abu el-Haj and others …).
Aren
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Shockingly uninformed! The Professor actually seems to assume that Moses was a historical figure.
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