..and if i do remember i'll come back with it.. describing the influence of the babylonian captivity on the torah.. aka pentateuch.. we have all come to know and dislike rather intensely.

from what i remember of the thesis, ole neb decided to let them go after a somewhat hand-picked cadre of temple priests rewrote especially descriptions of solomon's temple, which according to some evidence presented formerly included *descriptions of egyptian deities within the temple itself*.

iow, *monotheistic* judaism is only as old as the captivity, according to this theory whose source i can't for the life of me remember..

I think it will become tomorrow's consensus. During the previous several centuries we've gradually learned what the Bible wasn't; now it's our turn to learn what it is.