RE: Xtian Bible "Prophecy" Demolished
November 9, 2011 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2011 at 1:26 pm by Minimalist.)
Honestly Zip you hit on a big problem with archaeology. Scholarly works are written for each other - and this is true of many fields - not the general public. That's why a guy like Neil de Grasse Tyson is so valuable to science. He has a way of explaining things in such a way that smarter-than-average laymen ( obviously not fundies, they're hopeless ) can grasp.
"The Bible Unearthed" compiles 30 years of archaeological work which Finkelstein and his colleague Neil Silberman have explained in such a way that the dirty little secret of Syro-Palestinian archaeology escaped from the realm of pottery shards and stratigraphy. The scholars knew where the evidence was going in the 70's but it didn't start to scare the shit out of the religious community until 1999 when this was published in Haaretz by Ze'ev Herzog.
http://www.historykb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/...of-Jericho
The fundies shit their pants.
William Dever was once quoted as saying that " I began writing to oppose the Minimalists and ended up becoming one of them." The evidence is overwhelming to anyone who puts the bible down long enough to read it. The Bible Unearthed was probably the one book which had the biggest impact on me. Prior to that I always assumed that there was some genuine history contained in the OT, if not the hocus-pocus shit. Frankly, whatever historical accuracy it may have seems to be an accident.
That puts you a bit outside the mainstream of fundie "thought," tacky.
I knew there was a reason I liked you.
"The Bible Unearthed" compiles 30 years of archaeological work which Finkelstein and his colleague Neil Silberman have explained in such a way that the dirty little secret of Syro-Palestinian archaeology escaped from the realm of pottery shards and stratigraphy. The scholars knew where the evidence was going in the 70's but it didn't start to scare the shit out of the religious community until 1999 when this was published in Haaretz by Ze'ev Herzog.
http://www.historykb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/...of-Jericho
Quote:The archaeological findings blatantly contradict the biblical picture: the Canaanite cities were not "great," were not fortified and did not have "sky-high walls." The heroism of the conquerors, the few versus the many and the assistance of the God who fought for his people are a theological reconstruction lacking any factual basis.
The fundies shit their pants.
William Dever was once quoted as saying that " I began writing to oppose the Minimalists and ended up becoming one of them." The evidence is overwhelming to anyone who puts the bible down long enough to read it. The Bible Unearthed was probably the one book which had the biggest impact on me. Prior to that I always assumed that there was some genuine history contained in the OT, if not the hocus-pocus shit. Frankly, whatever historical accuracy it may have seems to be an accident.
Quote:I don't consider Micah 5 anything more than a prophesy on the davidic lineage of the Messiah.
That puts you a bit outside the mainstream of fundie "thought," tacky.
I knew there was a reason I liked you.
