RE: People in bible never existed according to head of Theology at a university in UK!
January 1, 2018 at 8:39 pm
(January 1, 2018 at 8:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/dail...jerusalem/
Quote:The next period Geva considers is the period of the United Monarchy, the time of King David and King Solomon and a couple centuries thereafter (1000 B.C.E. down to about the eighth century B.C.E.). In David’s time, the borders of the city did not change from the previous period. However, King Solomon expanded the confines of the city northward to include the Temple Mount. This increased the size of the city to about 40 acres, but the increase in population was not proportionate since much of this expansion was taken up with the Temple and royal buildings. “It is likely that Jerusalem attracted new inhabitants of different social classes,” Geva tells us. “Some of these people came to reside in the city as a consequence of their official and religious capacities, while others came to seek a livelihood in its developing economy.” Geva estimates the population of the city at this time at about 2,000. (Previously, other scholars had estimated the number of people living in the city at this time as 2,000, 2,500 or 4,500–5,000.)
Even with a few obvious problems....such as there being no evidence whatsoever for any fucking temple existing in this miserable little shithole... the population estimates are hardly indicative of a major capital city.
Maybe the David story was cooked up centuries after it supposedly happened?
We know that Jerusalem was an important town during the First Century when the Romans destroyed it and took the population as slaves. Then in the 600s the muslims got their mitts on it. So how would the Christians and Jews get it back? They would make it super important by claiming that it had been the large capital of the mighty King David from centuries ago.
So how did they do that? They simply made up the story and put it in the biblical fairy tale that they wrote to counter the muslims' Koran that Uthman's committee wrote in the 640s. And since people were ignorant they were able to get away with it because no one knew anything abut ancient history at that time.
