...I never claimed otherwise.
Again, you are attacking what you THINK I claimed, rather than what I actually claimed. I simply mentioned that Solomon made reference to the "Book of Jasher", and now you have confirmed that he did.
So what's the disagreement?
...you do know that ancient Hebrew has no past, present or future tense and as such is open to interpretation, right?
Sometimes, considering this temporal ambivalence, tautologies can be taken as emphatic absolutes.
For example: "his tomb has not been found" is a definite statement, but "has not been found even to this day" is an obvious redundancy; a grammatical tautology... considering the temporal ambiguity inherent in the language, a translation could easily substitute "never" as inferred by the tautology... simply take the tautology as an emphatic absolute.
Besides, the "even to this day" you insist upon as correct is similarly of ambiguous tense: it could mean the day the text was written or a continuous present: ie "evermore".
Listen to what you just said. If it can mean either the day the text was written or a continuous present, why are you complaining about the reading of the text being the former. More importantly, what is your evidence that it should be the latter vs. the former?
Again, this is a vacuous argument... you scream for links; citations; footnotes and references. If I fail to provide them that is misconstrued as tacit concession on my part, yet if I provide them you simply dismiss them because they don't come from sources YOU accept (Christian apologists).
There is a solution to this stalemate... you could prove me wrong.
I can and have, more times than I care to count. As for your excuse for your lack of providing references and links, it appears you're projecting again. And it shows that your claims don't hold water.
When I make the claim that Moses' tomb was simply unknown, I cite the reference that backs my words. When I refute your claims that the wise men find Jesus at birth, I cite the specific text that state that Jesus was approximately 2 years old.
And the list goes on and on.......
The onus should not be on me to constantly accommodate and pander to your lack of knowledge, try proving me wrong instead of constantly challenging me to produce expansive footnoted bibliographies and references... I'm not interested in educating someone who read one book and decided that was all they ever needed to know.
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Proving you wrong has been so easy that it's ridiculous. And, despite yet another erroneous statement of yours, I don't just read one book (why do you think tearing your blurbs to shreds takes such little effort?).
And, I can cite them, when needed, to support any statement I make regarding certain Biblical subject; whereas, you spout Grade A foolishness, hiding the source of such because you don't of which you speak.
From your Exodus claims to those of Christ, you've been about as right as two left shoes. I can back my words; the question is: Can YOU DO THE SAME?
To date, the answer has been an emphatic NO!! Instead, it's elongated workouts, alleged car trouble, and a host of other excuses, when called upon to defend your wild claims.