(January 22, 2016 at 12:53 pm)Drich Wrote:(January 22, 2016 at 12:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There was no "joseph" you dumb fuck.
When you stop trying to shoehorn this biblical crap into the record it all works quite nicely....even if it does nothing to help out dumb motherfuckers like you.
Do you have 'proof'?
You wouldn't read it but it is out there. Finkelstein, Dever, Redford, and those are just some of the ones who have written for non-academic readers. Your problem, shithead, is that you only read a book that starts "In The Beginning..." so you'll never learn anything. And you like it that way.
Idiots usually do.
http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/false_testament
Quote:Once again the theory didn't add up. The Book of Numbers states that, following their escape, the Israelites came under attack from the "Canaanite king of Arad , who lived in the Negev ," as they were "coming along the road to Atharim." But although excavations showed that a city of Arad existed in the early Bronze Age from roughly 3500 to 2200 B.C., and that an Iron Age fort arose on the site beginning in roughly 1150 B.C., it was deserted during the years in between. The Pentateuch says the Hebrews did battle with Sihon, king of the Amorites, at a city called Heshbon, but excavations have revealed that Heshbon did not exist during this period either. Nor did Edom , against whose king the Old Testament says the ancient Jews also made war.
Then came a series of archaeological studies conducted in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967. Previously archaeologists had intensively studied specific sites and locales, digging deep in order to determine how technology and culture had changed from one century to the next. Now they tramped through hills and valleys looking for pottery shards and remnants of ancient walls in order to map out how settlement patterns had ebbed and flowed across broad stretches of terrain. Whereas previously archaeologists had concentrated on the lowland cities where the great battles mentioned in the Bible were said to have taken place, they now shifted their attention to the highlands located in the present West Bank . The results were little short of revolutionary. Rather than revealing that Canaan was entered from the outside, analysis of ancient settlement patterns indicated that a distinctive Israelite culture arose locally around 1200 B.C. as nomadic shepherds and goatherds ceased their wanderings and began settling down in the nearby uplands. Instead of an alien culture, the Israelites were indigenous. Indeed, they were highly similar to other cultures that were emerging in the region around the same time--except for one thing: whereas archaeologists found pig bones in other sites, they found none among the Israelites. A prohibition on eating pork may have been one of the earliest ways in which the Israelites distinguished themselves from their neighbors.
Thus there was no migration from Mesopotamia , no sojourn in Egypt , and no exodus. There was no conquest upon the Israelites' return and, for that matter, no peaceful infiltration such as the one advanced by Yohanan Aharoni. Rather than conquerors, the Hebrews were a native people who had never left in the first place.
But seriously dripshit, you are incapable of understanding things like this. You stick to your stupid fucking bible and leave the heavy thinking to others. You WANT fairy tales to be true....just understand that you will be shit on each and every time you spout fairy tales instead of reality.