Quote:I think, its safe to say, we will find the evidence. People have been skeptical about the Bible and pretty much always proven wrong.
Sol, you can kid yourself all you like but modern archaeology has trashed the OT.
There were no patriarchs. No Exodus. No Conquest. No "Glorious" United Kingdom. It's all an invention of later writers....and it does not hold up to modern scientific inquiry.
There was a (relatively ) wealthy northern kingdom. There was a painfully poor and useless southern kingdom. There were Philistines. There were Assyrians. There were Babylonians and Egyptians and Phoenicians all pretty much behaving as every other petty principality of the time.
What is singularly missing in the archaeological record is any indication of the deeds or existence of your precious Jews.
Find the evidence, you say? They are down to bedrock in places in Jerusalem which is not that big an area. They have found flint tools from paleolithic hunters. The only piece missing is the capitol of David's "empire" which no one else in the ancient world seems to know about, either. Why don't you strain your brain a bit and see if you can figure out why that is.
