(July 1, 2016 at 2:01 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(July 1, 2016 at 1:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Modern archaeological research shows that the earliest beginnings of the regions which ultimately grew to be the states of "Israel" and "Judah" occurred during the Iron Age I period c 1200 BC.
When jesus freaks claim "bronze age" ancestry they are merely indulging their delusions.
Hold on, I got it from you and some others here that the old testament was written by a bunch of bronze age desert sheep fuckers or something to that effect. Christopher Hitchens said the same thing. It was a Christian who protested by saying they were in the iron age.
Wait a moment, dear. A bunch of illiterate peasant farmers at the beginning of the Iron Age didn't write shit. Let's get that clear. There is no indication AT ALL of any sort of OT writings...in any language...prior to the Greek septuagint written in the early 3d century BC. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are the oldest Hebrew ( and Greek and Aramaic) writings of biblical horseshit date from the mid 2d century at the earliest. Whether or not this crap existed as oral tales is debatable but no one had any reason to write this shit down until the state of Judaea gained independence from the Seleucid Empire in the mid 2d century. At that time they did a brief expansion before dynastic squabbling reduced them to the sorry state that the Romans found them in while Pompey was running wild in the east.
But anything that a christard says should be taken with several tons of salt.
Hitchens is a great writer but not an archaeologist.
