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From: gnewman@iglou.com (Greg 'Bonz' Newman)
Subject: Re: Noah & other bible myths
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:23:29 GMT
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On 16 Jul 1996 18:40:51 GMT, jking@alnitak.xylogics.com (Jack
King) wrote:

>Libertarius (attila1@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

>:A person called Daniel never existed, neither before
>: nor after the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, The Book of Daniel, which
>: purports to predict things that had happened centuries before, was
>: written long after the events it was supposed to predict, at the time
>: of the Maccabees, in 165 or 164 BC. Its author attributed his book to a
>: "Daniel", a fictitious character named in Ezekiel (14:14) along with
>: Noah and Job. 

>I see.  Daniel never existed.  Isn't it strange that Jesus himself
>refers to Daniel as a prophet (Math 24:15).  But I suppose you have
>a better source?

 Uh.. what does THAT have to do with anything? If Jesus said
that, he was wrong. Is that so hard to figure out?




