the so fallible Bible

[John V]

Again, it's W. F. Albright against a bunch of asshole apologists like you and those other xtian shitheads. Guess who has more credibility?

Apparently you didn't bother to read the references (no surprise there) in the wiki link, which include
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Scarre
He's a PhD and head of a university archaeology department.

There's also this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bulliet
He has a PhD from Harvard and is a "professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology, and the history of the role of animals in human society."

So you were saying something about Christian apologists?

BTW, try to get it through your thick jesus-freak head that camels did live in the region among the humans. They weren't suddenly poofed into existence...in the manner of your silly-assed god...but as Finkelstein makes clear it is when they were domesticated as beasts of burden for the Assyrian trade that really matters.

Oddly, the priests who wrote this shit had a far better grasp of historical timelines than modern jesus-freaks.

Genesis 11:31

King James Version (KJV)

31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

But the Chaldeans did not enter the region until c 1,000 BC.

The homeland of the Semitic Chaldean people was in the far south east of Mesopotamia. It is not certain when they migrated at an unknown period into the country of the Mesopotamian sea-lands about the head of the Persian Gulf. They seem to have appeared there at about the same time that other new Semitic peoples, the Arameans and the Sutu appeared in Babylonia, c. 1000 BC. This was a period of weakness in Babylonia, and its ineffectual kings were unable to prevent new waves of peoples invading and settling in the land.[

which means that unlike you shitheads they were placing their "abraham" character in an actual historical time when camels were becoming important as beasts of burden.

Sadly, it is the pathetic attempt by jesus-freaks to push their timeline much further back than history will allow which gets you in trouble in the first place. This is a first millennium story....and not written down until the end of the first millennium or early first millennium AD at best.

When you can understand that you will begin to become less of an asshole.


I'm not holding my breath.

You don't source your quote - is it from the same people who incorrectly think that camels weren't domesticated until 1,000 BC?