OAA,
So, you think that The Tanakh is just "is an amalgam of updated previous Middle Eastern lore" and nothing more?
If you have read the Jewish Bible you wouldn't talk like this
Nor do they talk like this down here:
--GE.
The holy books,in particular the OT is an amalgam of updated previous Middle Eastern lore.
The similarity between the code of Hammurabi and the Ten Commandments is not accidental.
It is now generally agreed that the origins of Abraham (the Biblical patriarch) is in present day Iraq.
This was why I personally found the 'philistinic' destruction of Iraqi museum by 'mission accomplished' George Bush -in order to topple just one man-particularly abhorrent
OAA.
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-------- Original message --------From: Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com>Date: 29/08/2019 13:46 (GMT+00:00)Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Compensation matters
This legal instruction about animal trespass into a field or vineyard, emerges from the Babylonian, Akkadian and Hebrew context, and although it may not be one of the legal stipulations of Hammurabi, the king of Babylon who claimed that he was inspired by the sun god, it surely sounds like one.
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That it should end up in the "holy books" is interesting.
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Sent from my iPhoneCorrections – should read: Wherever it can be established that these breaches have occurred and by whom, isn't it only fair that the affected farmers receive compensation? Some mechanism has to be in place to ensure that this is carried out - human beings are surely more precious to the Almighty than the bovine species. So, these kinds of disputes/ transgressions could be resolved without any recourse to violence, reprisals, bloodshed...
--On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 00:21, Cornelius Hamelberg <hamelbergcornelius4@gmail.com> wrote:
--In the wake of the salacious & nauseous sex-scandal details about a predatory professor, his sixteen-year-old female undergraduate victim, and the equally serious accusations levelled at what someone has unkindly headlined "Biafrauds or Nigerians: Cyber fraud suspects in USA", the erstwhile beleaguered, all-purpose scapegoat indiscriminately being accused of every imaginable crime under the Nigerian heavens, i.e. our dear Fulani Herdsmen Brethren, who used to occupy so much Naija media space have receded into the background, somewhat, although, perhaps, the respite from the media blaze is only temporarily, even if their alleged pillage, kidnappings, murder, rape, church arsons, obviously being committed by some non-Fulani scoundrels, continues unabated all over the Federation, because the real miscreants are not being apprehended by Naija Law enforcement as they should be...
In the meantime, we are to suppose that there will always be one or two incidents of Fulani cattle straying into /romping over other peoples farm property etc. Last night I was reminded that these type of perennial problems have always existed in agricultural societies, so it was not unexpected to read in Shemot 22 : 4 // Exodus 22: 5
"If a man leads his animals into a field or a vineyard, or lets his animal loose and it eats in another's field, the best of his field or the best of his vineyard he shall pay."
Wherever it can be established that these breeches have occurred and by who isn't it only fair that the affected farmers receive compensation? Some mechanism has to be in place to ensure that this is carried out - human beings are surely more precious than to the Almighty than the bovine species. SO these kinds of disputes/ transgressions can be resolved without any recourse to violence, reprisals, bloodshed...
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