The Bible as Not Purely Semitic

Out of this milieu came what we consider to be the Bible. Our mental models that the Bible is purely the emanation of the Semitic language family and Semitic culture is itself going to be contested in Finding Manuland.

Source: Expanding Mental Models · FM Draft (podcast transcript)

The programmatic statement about contesting Biblical origins. Christianity and the Hebrew Bible arose in an environment saturated with Indo-European cultural influences over two millennia — a claim that reframes the relationship between IE and Semitic traditions.

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