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[Aractus]

How can you justify ignoring important historical findings? The catalyst that led me to leave Christianity was in learning more about historical findings in the Levant. The lie perpetuated by Apologetics is that "there is historical doubt" or "insufficient historical information" about history and the Bible. But that is just not true at all. For example, several cities are mentioned by name in the book of Joshua as being conquered by the Israelites in the Conquest of Canaan. For this account to be true, at a minimum all those cities had to have been occupied by citizens at the same time in the late Bronze Age. Furthermore there would need to be evidence of said conquest in each of the cities. Archaeologists have been examining these City-states for two hundred years now, and they have made solid findings. Many of them were not occupied in the late Bronze Age - some of them had been conquered long before, and others had been abandoned without any signs of conflict.

The archaeological record shows that the ancient Israelite people were indigenous to the lands, and that they started spreading over the northern part of the Levant in the 9th century BC without any signs of conflict. The kingdom of Judah emerged in the south of the Levant in the 8th century BC, and also in the 8th century, the Neo-Assyrian Empire completely destroyed the kingdom of Israel, which in-turn created a whole nation of refugees who fled to the south and found safety in the Kingdom of Judah.

Finally, after all of this has happened, Judaism as a religion based on the text of the Pentateuch appears. Meaning the Pentateuch is probably written down from the 8th or 7th century BC. It's not written all at once, a fact that is well attested to by modern Hebrew text scholars, who find that it was written and expanded upon over time (likely time period being anywhere from one century to several centuries). And it's a clear-cut example of true mythology 101. Interestingly, most people are ignorant over what "mythology" means, it doesn't mean that someone invented any part of the Pentateuch, it means that the shared beliefs of the culture emerged organically.