But I don’t think Hitler would have anything more to say, that he hadn’t already said many times, loudly and often.

I would like to hear from Moses, David and Solomon, if they even existed. I would like to know if they really wrote the works that are attributed to them, if they really spoke with God, and what they think about what people have done with their teachings.

I’d also like to hear from the guy who discovered fire, the guy who invented the wheel and the guy who decided to come down from the trees. I bet the first two are wishing they had invented the patent office first! Were primitive, stone-age, Da Vincis and Einsteins by today’s standards? Or would they seem stupid compared to a modern-day human? How many stone-age geniuses lived and died, their inventions dying out with their tribes, long before patent offices and other ways to communicate ideas (such as language, or even roads to other tribes).

When you mentioned Hitler, I wondered if we’d really read what he was thinking as much as his manipulative propaganda – what he wanted you to think he was thinking. That would be more likely, and certainly reflects on how some bloggers blog today, doesn’t it?

One of the reasons the Dead Sea Scrolls fascinates me is not the evidence supporting biblical claims, but the journals in the scrolls about the day to day life of how these people lived, behaved, governed themselves, and existed. So I’m with you on this. Great point.

Fig: Thanks.