RE: Refuting the historical accuracy of the Bible
September 3, 2010 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2010 at 4:18 pm by Minimalist.)
Yes.
Unfortunately it will require reading actual books.
I suggest Finkelstein and Silberman's "The Bible Unearthed " and William Dever's " Who Were The Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?" (Dever likes long titles.)
There is virtually no historical reality in the NT so I guess I'm assuming you mean the OT.
For immediate reference you can try this.
http://www.worldagesarchive.com/Referenc...ers%29.htm
Unfortunately it will require reading actual books.
I suggest Finkelstein and Silberman's "The Bible Unearthed " and William Dever's " Who Were The Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?" (Dever likes long titles.)
There is virtually no historical reality in the NT so I guess I'm assuming you mean the OT.
For immediate reference you can try this.
http://www.worldagesarchive.com/Referenc...ers%29.htm
Quote:The Davidic Empire, which archaeologists once thought as incontrovertible as the Roman, is now seen as an invention of Jerusalem-based priests in the seventh and eighth centuries B.C. who were eager to burnish their national history. The religion we call Judaism does not reach well back into the second millennium B.C. but appears to be, at most, a product of the mid-first.
