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People in bible never existed according to head of Theology at a university in UK!
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RE: People in bible never existed according to head of Theology at a university in UK!
(December 30, 2017 at 11:21 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
(December 30, 2017 at 11:05 pm)possibletarian Wrote: All it says is that it shows evidence of 'some' type of government activity was conducted in that period, not evidence of David and Solomon, she would have known this, as you rightly pointed out the find happened before the video, she would be well aware of it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...ry-BC.html
They don't directly reference David or Solomon, but do provide evidence of government activity during that period

It's amazing what extra's theist read into discoveries.

From your own link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...ry-BC.html

Quote:
  • Experts say they offer evidence of biblical kings David and Solomon

I refer back to your earlier quote:

(December 30, 2017 at 10:22 pm)possibletarian Wrote: who are we to listen to..? people who believe these myths, or someone who has actually studied and travelled extensively and has a credited qualification.

It's not 'thiests' that are making the connection to David and Solomon, it's the experts, whom by your own admission you believe without question.

Some experts, Huggy.  Others are unimpressed.

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.632873


Quote:The artifacts are important, said Israel Finkelstein, an archaeology professor at Tel Aviv University. They "probably hint at" a city-state other than that of Gath on the southern coastal plain during the period, he wrote in an email to The Associated Press. Gath was a major Philistine city-state when it was destroyed in the 9th century, according to archaeologists. According to the Bible, it was the home town of Goliath, the giant whom young David laid flat with stone and sling.

But Finkelstein, co-author of a book arguing that "tenth-century Jerusalem was a small highland village that controlled a sparsely settled hinterland" rather than the great kingdom the Bible describes David and his son Solomon as ruling, was unconvinced by Hardin's broader conclusion. It's too far from Jerusalem — about 70 miles — to make connections, he said, and radiocarbon dating for the part of the Iron Age described could be anywhere from mid-10th century to 800 B.C.

"There is no reason to start rewriting history books that come from modern critical research," wrote Finkelstein, who wrote "David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition" with journalist and archaeology historian Neil Asher Silberman.

BTW, on a hunch I went back and checked the date on your article.  Dec. 16, 2014

There is a pattern of November/December headlines designed to make xhristards feel all hot and wet around the holidays.  It's good for tourism.  It's good for selling newspapers.
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RE: People in bible never existed according to head of Theology at a university in UK! - by Minimalist - December 30, 2017 at 11:44 pm

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