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Originally posted by Dottore
... Think for a moment how primitive the writers of these texts were - and how primitive the societies in which they lived!
There have been more than 2000 years of science and learning and civilization - of enlightenment - since then that you are choosing to ignore for some primitive mantra.
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Consider Hunanup... (bear with me
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He lived in a small village and one day he went into town to buy some groceries for his family. On the way, he ran into Dehu who conspired to defraud Hunanum out of everything of value that he had on him. So Dehu concocted a scheme such that Hunanum no way to avoid it. When Hunanum seeked to back out of the situation and drove over a portion of Dehu's property. Dehu used this pretext to assault Hunanum and take over his possessions.
After recovering, Hunanum tried to recover his possessions polititely, but to no avail. Hunanum then appealed to the courts, but they couldn't decide. Finally he appealed to the highest court in the land who ruled that he should be reimbursed (plus punitive damages) by Dehu. As far as we know, this was done.
Here you have examples of social order, heirarchy, family structure, complex economic relationships, rule of law, an orderly judicial system with checks and balances, as well as a precise and detailed means of recording the events. It also dates by to about 2050 BCE in Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs, before most scholars agree that Abram even had left Ur. The "high court" in this case was the "King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Neb-Kau-re, the blessed". I found this story (I've condensed it for the sake of space) in a book I found at B&N a couple of years ago titled "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt", edited by Jon E. Lewis, and is known as "The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant". I really like it because it shows how much the "ancient" people were like us. Hunanum, who cares for his family, works for a living and tries to do the right thing. Sound familiar???