http://www.bloggernews.net/114522 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/114522#comment-1404440 phennario Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:32:09 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114522#comment-1404440 I've just started to read this book and find a glaring error at the very start which causes me to wonder about the veracity of the rest of the book. Mr. Livingstone states that Esau tricked his brother out of is birthright. Yet in reading the Bible it is Jacob who twice tricks Esau out of his birthright and his inheritance. With such an obvious error in setting one of the cornerstones of his theory how stable can the rest of the edifice be? I’ve just started to read this book and find a glaring error at the very start which causes me to wonder about the veracity of the rest of the book. Mr. Livingstone states that Esau tricked his brother out of is birthright. Yet in reading the Bible it is Jacob who twice tricks Esau out of his birthright and his inheritance. With such an obvious error in setting one of the cornerstones of his theory how stable can the rest of the edifice be?

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