07-02-2015, 12:20 PM
(07-02-2015, 11:30 AM)Benton Wrote: There are fewer people who think that. Thankfully. There's not a lot of time stamps, but, from what I've read, most of the OT books were written between 4-6,000 years ago.
(07-02-2015, 11:37 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Meh, isn't OT God just Zeus with a different name and a new coat of paint? Or was the OT older than tales of Zeus? Meh, Ida know.
The OT as we know it today is from about 600BCE onward. It was during Babylonian captivity that the Jews came into contact with Zoroastrianism and that changed their faith from a more polytheistic approach to monotheistic. When this occurred, many of their stories were reworked to go with the idea of one god. The deity that remained was but the highest ranking of the gods in their pantheon.
