(April 12, 2012 at 1:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Again, the Hebrew compilers updated names to more recognizable names.
That is simply apologetic bullshit. In trying to write a description of events centuries before their time they simply assumed that the world as it existed in their time was the same. This accounts for the inclusion of places and states which existed in the Iron Age but not in the Late Bronze Age showing up in your fucking bible.
As William Dever has noted, the real miracle of Joshua is that he destroyed cities which did not exist.
In the Late Bronze Age, Egypt had complete dominion over Canaan. somehow, the later jerkoffs who wrote these fairy tales had forgotten that.
You would like the works and findings of the Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Ze'ev Herzog, who said;
This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel: the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the 12 tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is the fact that the united monarchy of David and Solomon, which is described by the Bible as a regional power, was at most a small tribal kingdom. And it will come as an unpleasant shock to many that the God of Israel, Jehovah, had a female consort and that the early Israelite religion adopted monotheism only in the waning period of the monarchy and not at Mount Sinai. Most of those who are engaged in scientific work in the interlocking spheres of the Bible, archaeology and the history of the Jewish people - and who once went into the field looking for proof to corroborate the Bible story - now agree that the historic events relating to the stages of the Jewish people's emergence are radically different from what that story tells.
http://archaeologynews.multiply.com/notes/item/15
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