>I've long believed (and it's probably not my thought
>at all but the remembered opinion of some scholar) the
>Old Testament is the tribal war chronicle of people
>living only a few moments, so to speak, after we
>became truly human whereas the New Testament is the
>much more complex and cosmopolitan product of
>humanity's agriculture and city-state -- regional
>empire phase.
>
>
>The two collections of books scarcely belong together.
But fundies really love the OT, don't they? The brutal, vengeful, judgmental stuff, which is at odds with JC's turn the other cheek wussiness.
Doug