As an old Orthodox Jew, that practiced the Torah strictly and who read from the Torah daily and meditated on it constantly.... I found many contradictions in the Torah and the rest of the Tanach.
With that said, I am compiling a list of all the contradictions I found and can remember from the top of my head.
I suppose I found well over 200 of them. I did have a list at one point, but my computer that had this list broke down. So, i am compiling them again.
Here is a small sample:
1) Who dug the well at Beer-Sheba
a. Was it Abraham (Gen 21:22-32)
b. Was it Isaac (Gen 26:23-33)
2) Which set of the Ten commandments is the correct set when it comes to the reason behind the Sabbath?
a. Was it based on the six days of creation and Him resting on the seventh (Exodus 20:8-12 and Exodus 31:17)
b. Or, is it based on that fact we Jews were slaves in Egypt and were not allowed to rest (Deuteronomy 5:15)
3) What happened at the beginning?
a. Eve was made on the 6th day (Genesis 1:26-31)
b..Or, did she come at some unspecified time later, after Adam worked the garden for some time and after naming all of the animals (Gen 2)?
4) What is the proper procedure for some of the Shavuot (Feast of Weeks / Penticost) ritual?
a. 1 bull and 2 rams (Lev 23: 18)
b. Or, 2 bulls and 1 ram? (Num 28:27)
5) Concerning Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement
a. Did Moses give the ritual and commands of Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16 and 23:26-32, Number 29:7-11)
b. Or, did it come into existence after Nehemiah and Ezra, for the people fasted and did like deeds on the 24th, not the 10th and there was no mention of it in the law which they read from (Nehemiah 8 &9)
6) Israelite History...
a. Did the Israelites have a miraculous deliverance from Egyptian slavery as Exodus claims
b. Or were we the Hyksos that ruled in Avaris and who enslaved others, till King Ahmose defeated us and drove us to Canaan (Look up Ahmose & Hyksos)
7. Where was the law supposedly given?
a. Sinai (Exodus 19)
b. Horeb (Deut 4:10, 4:15, 5:2, 9:8, 1 Kings 8:9, 2 Chron 5:10, Psalm 106:19, Malachi 4:4)
8. According to the bible, when it gives the genealogy from Adam to Noah, then follow that to the last king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the Temple in 586 BCE.... the bible claims that the flood happened in 2,507 BCE or there abouts according to that time line.
However, real historical facts is this: we have an uninterrupted list of kings of the Pharaohs of Egypt dating as far back as 3,100 BCE and possibly older.
Hard to believe a flood myth that wiped out "all of mankind," yet we have historical evidence that clearly shows mankind was never touched as a whole by a flood and, thus, they continued on and didn't have to start over.
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Notes for continued writing:
Age of the patriarchs and their death... compared to the genealogy list, they should be around or still alive during the time of certain grand kids.
Case in point, when reading about Noah, he lives to a certain age and then dies and the narrative continues as if he is dead and no longer around.... YET according to the gene list.... he was still alive when Isaac was born. In fact, by that list, Noah dies when Isaac is like 12 years old.
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Who killed Goliath
Who wrote the torah, Moses or post-exile Jews?
A) Sumer myths mentioned Gen 1-11 = Post-exile
B) Urartu mentioned, Post-exile. They existed from 850 -590 BCE
C) Legends of a ziggiret = post exile
D) Flood, yet pharoahs still around = post exile
E) Mentioning Jewish kings in Gen 36
F) Death of Moses mentioned at the end of Deut
G) ANTI-Solomon laws in Deut 17
H) Yom Kippur mentioned, yet didnt exist till after Ezra
So.... that some stuff for you so far.
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