Archeological climate studies suggest that a major drought in the Levant beginning just before 2000 BCE with attendant famine, plagues, and cultural stress especially in agricultural communities (and in other fertile areas at different times) opened the way for marauding nomads to plunder the surviving stressed farming communities. Hmmm, rivers turning to mud or blood, locusts, death of first born and other children, frogs leaving the wetlands.... sound familiar?Something of great significance happened early on in the history the Middle East. Some life altering event left an indelible mark on the world view of the inhabitants as conditions went from very good to very bad. A pessimistic, hostile, anti-women and anti-nature world view emerged. Unlike any worldview the world has ever seen."
christine3
What is a necessary resource for marauders? Lots and lots of poor young men to die in battle. How do you get lots and lots of poor young men? Take the women out of the economic production cycle of planting and reaping, either by farming or gathering, and turn them into property as breeders of warfare assets, that is poor young men.
If you can get God to consider those dumb farmers as lesser beings to be plundered, humanism that is treating all people, men, women and children as worthy of respect is simply weakness.
Is it just a story that God refused Cain's offering of produce? Cain who then killed his herding brother and became an object of derision for all time? I think not. Note that Cain used superior weaponry to kill the herder. This is a fable for all time. The only way to deal with marauders is with superior weapons. So much for peaceful coexistence.
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