In Ancient Israel, a 1992 compilation of various essays edited by Amnon Ben Tor, the noted Israeli archaeologist Amihai Mazar writes the following:
http://books.google.com/books?id=m1b1VgN...&q&f=false
It's page 282 of a Google Books preview and so cannot be copied and pasted but Mazar's commentary on Exodus bullshit begins in the first column.
What he is referencing is the attempt by Israeli archaeologists to excavate the site of Kadesh Barnea which is the only oasis in that part of Sinai where any sizable group of people would have the water to live for long. THEY FOUND NOTHING from the Early Bronze Age to the Iron Age which indicated that there had been any occupation at all.
This was not what they expected to find. They set out with the full expectation that they would find Late Bronze Age evidence for the jews fleeing Egypt. Unlike xtian fuckheads, Mazar and his colleagues had the intellectual integrity to report their finds and evidence based conclusions. Note a bit further on where Yohanon Aharoni's excavations in the Arad valley show that Arad did not exist until the 10th century, either. These are anachronisms and the fucking OT is full of them.... and full of shit.
http://books.google.com/books?id=m1b1VgN...&q&f=false
It's page 282 of a Google Books preview and so cannot be copied and pasted but Mazar's commentary on Exodus bullshit begins in the first column.
What he is referencing is the attempt by Israeli archaeologists to excavate the site of Kadesh Barnea which is the only oasis in that part of Sinai where any sizable group of people would have the water to live for long. THEY FOUND NOTHING from the Early Bronze Age to the Iron Age which indicated that there had been any occupation at all.
This was not what they expected to find. They set out with the full expectation that they would find Late Bronze Age evidence for the jews fleeing Egypt. Unlike xtian fuckheads, Mazar and his colleagues had the intellectual integrity to report their finds and evidence based conclusions. Note a bit further on where Yohanon Aharoni's excavations in the Arad valley show that Arad did not exist until the 10th century, either. These are anachronisms and the fucking OT is full of them.... and full of shit.
