Let me offer you two online magazine articles dealing with what archaeology has learned in the last 40 years. Part of the problem with early archaeology is that they were funded by religious-based universities and you ended up with "archaeologists" who were really preachers looking for evidence that their bible was "true." Needless to say they found it mainly by pronouncing every rock they picked up as something that moses pissed on, or some such nonsense.
The introduction of radiocarbon dating in the 50's was the beginning of the end for bible bullshit archaeology and it got a real kick in the ass in the aftermath of the 1967 war. Israel is a strange little country and archaeology is almost a national obsession...or it was until it started telling them things they didn't want to hear. The war gave waves of young Israeli archaeology students access to the West Bank and Sinai and they dutifully started digging and found that it was all a lie. To their very great credit, scholars like Israel Finkelstein, Amihai Mazar, David Ussishkin, Ze'ev Herzog and Ronny Reich did not try to cover up the findings unlike idiot xtian ark hunters have.
Anyway these articles by Professor Herzog and Mr. Lazare will give a background on these finds. A full book on the subject is "The Bible Unearthed" by Finkelstein.
http://rense.com/general12/decon.htm
http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/false_testament
I have a e-copy of The Bible Unearthed. Let me know if you want it.
This is the basic problem with all 3 religions in the area. They are all based on a load of shit.
The introduction of radiocarbon dating in the 50's was the beginning of the end for bible bullshit archaeology and it got a real kick in the ass in the aftermath of the 1967 war. Israel is a strange little country and archaeology is almost a national obsession...or it was until it started telling them things they didn't want to hear. The war gave waves of young Israeli archaeology students access to the West Bank and Sinai and they dutifully started digging and found that it was all a lie. To their very great credit, scholars like Israel Finkelstein, Amihai Mazar, David Ussishkin, Ze'ev Herzog and Ronny Reich did not try to cover up the findings unlike idiot xtian ark hunters have.
Anyway these articles by Professor Herzog and Mr. Lazare will give a background on these finds. A full book on the subject is "The Bible Unearthed" by Finkelstein.
http://rense.com/general12/decon.htm
http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/false_testament
I have a e-copy of The Bible Unearthed. Let me know if you want it.
This is the basic problem with all 3 religions in the area. They are all based on a load of shit.
