When told that a great deal of what appears in the Torah, Old Testament, was plagiarized by the Judeans from tales they heard when they were enslaved by the Babylonians -where they learned to write-, the accountant had to rethink his foundation on faith, unquestionable belief on the role of divine revelations -to be printed on a papyrus-. The relationship with the Bible was not longer a comfort zone for the mathematical mind. To have to deal with widely published scientific evidence, that discards previous rigidly embedded ideas kept the middle age man quiet for a while. The culture that so efficiently shaped the accountant’s view of the “cosmos” thru the filter of one idea, divine revelation, was beginning to be canceled.
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