People in bible never existed according to head of Theology at a university in UK!

[Huggy Bear]

From your own link.

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


I refer back to your earlier quote:


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.

And the same article also says

However, many experts dismiss the rulers as mythological figures and claim no kingdom ever existed

and the article does go on to make much more modest claims denying any reference to David or Solomon directly these are evidence of governance, (and that in a tiny place) nothing else.
That is likely why being an leading, respected and well know figure in biblical archaeology she dismissed these rather fanciful claims.

*emphasis mine*

That was the case previous to the discovery. Clearly they were wrong about no kingdom ever existing in that region.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...100433.htm

Six official clay seals found by an archaeological team at a small site in Israel offer evidence that supports the existence of biblical kings David and Solomon. Many modern scholars dismiss David and Solomon as mythological figures and believe no kingdom could have existed in the region at the time the Bible recounted their activities. The new finds provide evidence that some type of government activity was conducted there in that period.

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From your own link.

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


I refer back to your earlier quote:


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

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.

Finkelstein sounds like a hater...

I notice how all of the sudden carbon dating is inaccurate when it doesn't fit the narrative.