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Like the book. In fact, own the book. So, too, From Epic to Canon. Nevertheless, and despite your efforts to impress, the results are sophomoric and increasingly tiresome.
Gotta go; perhaps we'll chat more later.
Adam forsook the command of God to obey his wife. This represented a form of idolatry. Adam was not deceived, so he did not need to obey her. Eve was deceived by her own vanity and so she was guilty. Entrapment is not a sin. It is a perfectly valid way of catching those predisposed to crime. I've used it myself. Only he who was predisposed to steal actually stole. All the rest passed by the opportunity. Eve was predisposed to sin. In any event, the created has no charge against its creator, and the command given was unambiguous. There is nothing in scripture to say that they did not understand the command or its consequences. The Christian devil is a lowly fellow, but appearing in many masks and guises to deceive the unwary. Seducing gods yesterday, political charlatans today. Nazism one day, human rights the next day. You never know where he may crop up.
Obviously it lay in the creative power of women.
The doctrine of original sin as taught by Augustine the Manichaean is tripe. Sin is not imputed to anyone by reason of anything Adam did. As to those outside Eden, sin is not imputed where this is no command and no law (Roms 5;13).
You have not shown that YHWH + "the Asherash legacy derived from earlier Ba'al worship of the Canaanites" represented a systematic engagement with polytheism at a State level. It is similar to today. Local paganism and superstititions by the inhabitants of a country, which are perpetuated from generation to generation, do not necessarily reflect the State religion. There may be a combination of practices. You have not shown that YHWH was a true polytheistic God. Asherah idols do not reflect the works of the Hebrew prophets, who are mostly regarded as authentic by scholars. You have to accept that there were different conceptions of religion amongst different groups of people. This reflects the biblical account.
Exodus contains many "egyptianisms." The Levites have Egyptian names. It refers to a period of history circa 1500BC which is poorly documented from other sources. However I can start a thread on this, when I have sufficient material, which I do have, but not to hand at present. I will have to dig it out. Your thesis is a limited one, being that the Hebrews engaged with Canaanite polythesism, which the bible admits. So there isn't really much else that you can prove as your thesis is very limited, showing that polytheistic practices crept into Israelite YHWH worship. So what? It's not enough to say that monotheism started only in 600BC, because you have no evidence of it, and especially you have no evidence to rebut the biblical account of YHWH worship predating this by many centuries. As as I said right from the start, a lot of errors seem to have arisen from discounting a late date for the Exodus, and then assuming that it had never happened at all. Most biblicists support an early Exodus date these days. However it is another thread.
I think you have to agree with some other idea already to understand the premise.
Most books were
Poorly documented from any sources.
Definitely seems later compiled to me.
That is something for which you have provided no evidence. Even the name "Moses" echoes the names of the Pharaohs of his era. This is hardly likely to have been invented out of thin air, nearly 1000 years after the event, somewhere in Babylon, as your fiction presupposes. And although the documentation is sparse, there is documentation that totally refutes your "overwhelming evidence" theory. The bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed, eh?
Why wouldnt they? They presumably also believed that *Abraham started monotheism, and that people might worship idols, hence mentioned in the OT. Your premise doesnt explain that polytheism is actually what was practiced at the time of Biblical narrative, but rather that polytheism was extant, a problem, so forth. Two different arguments.