(October 11, 2010 at 2:07 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Christians also say that there is no Biblical claim that archeology has proven false
http://www.worldagesarchive.com/Referenc...ers%29.htm
Quote:In the last quarter century or so, archaeologists have seen one settled assumption after another concerning who the ancient Israelites were and where they came from proved false. Rather than a band of invaders who fought their way into the Holy Land, the Israelites are now thought to have been an 'indigenous culture that developed west of the Jordan River around 1200 B.C. Abraham, Isaac, and the other patriarchs appear to have been spliced together out of various pieces of local lore. 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.
This article is pretty good but there is no substitute for reading The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein, prof of archaeology at Tel Aviv University.
So far it seems that there is little in the fucking bible that has been sustained by archaeology.
Thanks for the link! And I will check that book out!