RE: Refuting the historical accuracy of the Bible
September 4, 2010 at 1:01 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2010 at 1:17 am by Minimalist.)
Quote:How old is this quote?
The article is dated 2002. However it was 1988 when israel Finkelstein's groundbreaking study on Israelite settlement was released. Pretty much, only fundie morons still cling to the bible.
The shit hit the fan in Israel in 1999 when Ze'ev Herzog published an article in Haaretz that brought the issues which scholars had known for a decade to public light.
As for your two videos...I have to laugh.
The first repeats a load of bible bullshit and fails to note that we have exactly NO evidence for any sort of Davidic Empire. Oddly, the people who were conquered don't seem to know about it and we have no example of Judahite pottery or writing in any of these allegedly conquered territory. We do have the Tel Dan stele which was written by the king of Aram Damascus who did kick the shit out of of a combined force from the House of Omri ( what they called Israel) and the House of David (what they called Judah.) We have ZERO evidence for Solomon or any other king. Supposedly an Egyptian Pharaoh named Sheshonq I attacked Jerusalem but, oddly, when he wrote of his victories on the temple wall at Karnak he didn't even mention attacking the place. He did, however, aim at the wealthier areas to the north which was always the Egyptian interest. No one gave a flying fuck about Judah....a land of sheep and goat shit.
Your second video presents a bunch of holy joes ( remember my admonition above about "fundies!" ) maintaining that "Nazareth" was 3 miles from Sepphoris but there is no evidence that Nazareth existed in the early first century AD. Significalntly, the gospels never mention Sepphoris which seems a curious omission. The second guy who speaks makes one good point. The "earliest" and "best" references to your godboy are the 4 gospels but even they seem to be dated much later....and they were written anonymously. Most were apparently written by fairly well educated Greek speakers. All of this argues against composition by a bunch of illiterate shitkickers.
