Excellent article. Thank you. In researching my novels, Noah's Wife and Lot's Wife, I had several moments like the one described here of shock at the juxtaposition of what I had been taught about the beginnings of Judaism and what archeology is revealing about the true roots of the major world religions. Similar to that simplified picture of Rosa Parks, our beginnings were not the God-to-Abraham: "I am one; start the Jewish people" that we were taught in Sunday School. Facing this and facing the fact that Jewish extremism is just as ugly as any other, is hard and against our core desires about how we see ourselves, but I agree with the author. If we face the truth, it will set us free. http://www.tkthorne.com
Excellent article. Thank you. In researching my novels, Noah's Wife and Lot's Wife, I had several moments like the one described here of shock at the juxtaposition of what I had been taught about the beginnings of Judaism and what archeology is revealing about the true roots of the major world religions. Similar to that simplified picture of Rosa Parks, our beginnings were not the God-to-Abraham: "I am one; start the Jewish people" that we were taught in Sunday School. Facing this and facing the fact that Jewish extremism is just as ugly as any other, is hard and against our core desires about how we see ourselves, but I agree with the author. If we face the truth, it will set us free. http://www.tkthorne.com