(April 1, 2015 at 3:07 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: No and no. The most detailed records we have frim bronze-early iron is the Egyptians, and no where do they record any sort of en masse enslavement, and they don't mention a Jewish culture till the time of around the 8th-7th century. Also the archeological evidence does not support a genocide in the region of Isreal at that time and nor does it support the notion of mass migrating people from that time.
What it does suggest is that Jewish culture descended from cultures around it, not becoming truly monotheistic until after the BabylonIan exile.
Actually archaeology does show genocides in the Canaan region, but they occurred centuries or even a millennia earlier than the "first Jews" (8th cent. BC). Going by the Biblical timeline some of them are possible, however at the times they occurred there were no Jewish people. Antisemitism, however, was alive and well under the Roman empire and continued well into the 20th century. It's only following Nazi Germany and the Holocaust that it's become less popular.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
