RE: The Bible Takes It Up The Ass, Again!
February 5, 2014 at 10:33 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2014 at 10:34 pm by Minimalist.)
As I learned from The Bible Unearthed, the Jewish tradition is that 38 of the 40 years were spent encamped at the oasis of Kadesh-Barnea. This nonsense of them walking around in circles seems to be a xtian thing not a jewish thing.
It was one reason why, after the 1967 war when Israel gained control of the West Bank and Sinai that teams of young Israeli archaeologists set off to places like Kadesh-Barnea to find evidence of their ancestors. They failed utterly, as Amihai Mazar notes in this essay from Amnon Ben Tor's Archaeology of Ancient Israel. Fortunately, this page made it into the Google Books preview.
http://books.google.com/books?id=m1b1VgN...&q&f=false
Note also how Mazar goes on to discuss the work of Yohanon Aharoni who also failed to find any kingdom of Arad at this time period.
These Israeli archaeologists gave an honest account of their findings and the fucking bible went down in flames!
BWHAHAHAHA!
BTW, this book was published in 1980. It's only "news" to jesus freak morons.
It was one reason why, after the 1967 war when Israel gained control of the West Bank and Sinai that teams of young Israeli archaeologists set off to places like Kadesh-Barnea to find evidence of their ancestors. They failed utterly, as Amihai Mazar notes in this essay from Amnon Ben Tor's Archaeology of Ancient Israel. Fortunately, this page made it into the Google Books preview.
http://books.google.com/books?id=m1b1VgN...&q&f=false
Note also how Mazar goes on to discuss the work of Yohanon Aharoni who also failed to find any kingdom of Arad at this time period.
These Israeli archaeologists gave an honest account of their findings and the fucking bible went down in flames!
BWHAHAHAHA!
BTW, this book was published in 1980. It's only "news" to jesus freak morons.
