re: #26 De Kolta Chair

Dr. Marc Monte (what an apt name for a con artist) is a typical fundamentalist, two centuries behind mainstream Christian scholars.

The problem with following scholars in religion is that you have to leave pretty much most of the Bible behind, and what remains rests on a pretty flimsy foundation. E.g. even aside from significant NT interpolations, scholars have established that it contains outright forgeries (letters not written by Paul but ascribed to him, 2 Peter, etc.). The problems with the historicity of the gospels are numerous. The story with the OT is the same - the Pentateuch was not written by Moses and doesn’t tell pretty much any real history (no Patriarchs, no Egyptian sojourn, no Exodus, no Canaan conquest), the book of Daniel is a 2nd century BC forgery, the story of David’s and Solomon’s kingdoms is at least enormously exaggerated (at worst they didn’t exist, but that’s a minority opinion) and so on.

So I can well understand the reluctance for relying on the mainstream scholarship. Most Christians reject it.

re: #27 The Ghost of a Flea

…and completely ignoring how Jews have been interpreting the Old Testament from four+ thousand.

I don’t think they ignore it, just disagree. It is a different religion with different rules, after all.
Also, the Tanakh is not 4000 years old.