You don’t, I suspect, actually care at all about first temple Israelite culture. You care about how modern Abrahamic religions are false and politically destructive. Granted! But that claim doesn’t have anything to do with history, and thinking that arguments against modern theists constitute an understanding of an ancient culture is not justifiable.
Just for the record, I do care: anthropology is, I believe, an utterly curcial subject, and understanding what humans are capable of, how they invented different systems and methods to live together and apart, to associate and to resolve conflict—I think that’s absolutely essential if one wants to look at the world and at oneself with clear eyes.
Just for the record, I do care: anthropology is, I believe, an utterly curcial subject, and understanding what humans are capable of, how they invented different systems and methods to live together and apart, to associate and to resolve conflict—I think that’s absolutely essential if one wants to look at the world and at oneself with clear eyes.