ProfBenTziyyon wrote:

I am still waiting for “Gideon Mage” to respond to the challenge I posed in post #31 and repeated in post #33. People like him are very fond of making grandiose claims and false accusations, but they go strangely quiet whenever such claims and accusations are challenged.

In the English language, "you" is either singular or plural.  I have no idea what you mean by "people like him" means, unless it is some kind of weird ad hominem.   I am not at all sure what you think I am "like".  I normally refrain from stating my personal views on certain subjects,  I am going to make a few statements.  I am not preaching or teaching, simply defending myself.  I don't like the word "believe", as it implies concepts alien to my consciousness.

I do not feel that the Torah, as we have it today, is even close to whatever Moses received on whichever mountain.  For just one example, I don't accept that the account of his death, which includes a comment about no "greater prophet unto this day", which clearly indicates it was written much later, would be included in a revelation given to Moses.  I suspect that there really was a Moses.  I think the description of his meeting with the Divine One, although hopelessly garbled, is a recording, by whoever composed it, of a true event.  I feel that there is plenty of evidence to this effect.  Mishnah, Talmud, Gemara, whichever...these are later commentaries, in my opinion.  I am not interested in superstitions promulgated to the contrary.  I suspect that there have been literally countless revelations to every civilization of human history, from the same Divine Source.  "Judiasm" is a system of beliefs, based on Tanach and other writings, but it is just a system of beliefs.  God has spoken other times.  

However, I suspect a sham on behalf of certain ones, such as any form of Xianity whatsoever, which is why I post comments here.
Now, what type of person am I "professor"?