Did homer write bout Iliad and the Odyssey?

Man, I've been reading "Some Mistakes of Moses". The Pentateuch gets a thorough dismantling in there. Only an idiot could take that literally, and Ingersoll blows it up in style.

I can see two ways that Homer and Moses was different. Homer spoke of events reported to him by strangers. He never said that the gods commanded that he write the "record" of the Odyssey and the Iliad/ Moses spoke of events that directly involved his family members, all the way back to Eden.

As families are famous for, they tell events of previous generations to the new generations. And while some claim that "written" language (especially Hebrew) wasn't "invented" until the nation was formed, they have no solid evidence that the Hebrews didn't have a written language. So, Moses may not have had as sources just the verbal history, but a collection of written documents.

Moses was told to write and given direct instructions from God, and since he had 40 years in the wilderness, had plenty of time to do that. And consider the overlapping of lives. Noah died just two years before Abraham was born and Shem, Noah's son, died just 2 decades before Abraham did.

With all these overlapping times, the accounts were transferred from a person living before the flood to one born after it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.