Archaeology...Sorry No Indiana Jones Shit.

[Polaris]

Prof. Bloch-Smith is with the Theology Dept of St Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Still, she is an archaeologist and has written this paper which is bound to piss off fundies....if they bothered to read anything which didn't tell them what they wanted to hear in the first place.


https://www.academia.edu/7857714/Questio..._and_Texts

Archaeology, as an independent witness to ancient Israel, enables reconstructing the historical context for the production of Bible texts and in which they are to be understood. Te devastating Assyrian campaigns formed the backdrop for Hezekiah’s reforms and prophetic oracles. In the el Arad example, archaeology supplies material correlates for Israelite features such as massebot and a temple (not mentioned in the Bible) and the actual features and practices to which biblical authors and editors were responding. As the two case studies demonstrate, studying the physical remains together with the literary record provides insight into actual practices of the late eighth through the sixth centuries, the historical circumstances that shaped those actions, and the evolution of Yahwistic cultic practices through the last centuries of the Davidic kingdom.

Tough titties, jesus freaks.

Last centuries of the Davidic Kingdom? Uh what....glad I never went to Seminary if this is what they offer.