Dennis Prager is not to be trusted

I read through Dennis Prager's commentary on Exodus and then I read Darío Fernández.

Prager claimed there was no record of a Jew - outside the Bible - being executed according to the laws of Torah. This didn't pass the smell test. If God's Law says "if X happens, do Y" and human nature is constant; then somewhere somehow, Y will happen.

Fernández's book was mostly against the Islamic regime in Andalus, but the text also made some observations about Sephardic Jewish life in the ghetto. If you were a Jew and you broke the Sephardic law, you got killed.

Exile was a tool in the toolbox; a Jew getting exiled for blasphemy against the prophets might well be blaspheming against Muslim prophets too which meant death. But such events might not count for Prager.

Fernández documents that Jews got stoned for apostasy in Spain as well - directly.

Fernández notes a law in the Constantine code forbidding Jews from stoning apostates [n. 79]; the Visigoths in Spain enacted the same law. The monarchs wouldn't have had to forbid that law if nobody was enforcing it. Note also that Jewish law associates apostasy with adultery and, I surmise, some Francescas and Paolos likely got the rock as well.

When Vox Day calls Dennis Prager a liar - that's a reason why.

BACKDATE 8/18.