Science confirms the Bible?

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Please continue, good sir.

First one shows that the Bible is a copy/paste of five different books during the Captivity...it's a real mess when you try and separate the different interwoven statements. Also explains why there are different accounts in the Bible like Genesis and the slaying of Goliath. That and there was a compromise for which Bible to use, but I think even Christians acknowledge that one.

There was a cult where Yahweh was depicted as having a wife goodness named Asherah, who is seen as one of the enemy faiths in the Bible. Some speculate that this was a precursor faith and the Jews went out of their way to remove it from history....I say it's more of a cult because it was only seen in one area to my recollection (even if they tried to eradicate it, they're likely be more than just one remaining evidence...aka we have four Mayan codices.

Elohim was the name for God used during the time of Abraham, but could also been seen as the name of a supreme Canaanite god....the implications being quite destructive to the origin of the Jewish faith.

You need to find William Dever's "Did God Have A Wife." In it he details these developments. It is more in the context of "folk religion" v "state religion." For that, there needs to be a "state" and Judah developed one in the late 8th century BCE. Once you have a central monarch you quickly find priests clinging to him like the parasites they are. The idea of central government rule v a clan based and far more conservative countryside is hardly news. The attempt by rural peoples to try to hold on to their old beliefs - regardless of what they were - is well attested in history from the Pilgrimage of Grace against Henry VIII's confiscation of the monasteries or the revolts in the Vendee against Napoleon. Dever sees the same sort of dynamic. The desire of rural peoples with only a shaky allegiance to a national government seeking to maintain the old ways against some greedy priests trying to exert their power.