How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

So what else was happening during this time? Well, people were spreading out over the planet, and new religions and faiths were developing. Buddhism, Shintoism, and Taoism in the 500s and 600s BC, for example (14.8 and 14.9).