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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: 2000-year-old eggs, urrh books
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Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 17:05:04 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  6 17:05:04 1985
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Summary: 

By internal evidence, it should be obvious that the New Testament is a
MAXIMUM of 1985-33 = 1952 or such years old, NOT "over 2000."  Actually.
I don't think the entire collection as a book can be traced back much beyond
1600 years.

Books around longer than that include the Iliad, Hesiod's Theogeny,
Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish (Marduk's saga), the Tanak (aka Old Testament),
and LOTS of others.  Lessee, if length of years means something about
truthfulness, then the 1930 phonebook is more correct than the 1985.  (?)
Urrh, the story of Innanna is truer than any of the books mentioned above.
Urrh,