I have not introduced you to the full extent of my biblical scholarship. But here is a sampler.
The Bible is a book on 'Alternate Facts'..
The Jews are the only people who have been dislodged from their country twice in their history. The Jews were a tribal group surrounded by powerful neighbours like the Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians. There never made any contributions to math or science and most of their past were overshadowed by their more advanced neighbours. The Bible began as a book of the larger than life Patriarchs and the invention of the Jewish people in an attempt to reconstruct Jewish history with literary embellishment slanted towards success by inventing prophets and heroes where God rewarded the people when they obeyed his commandments and punished them when they failed. But history is not written in isolation and when the Jews tried to treat the bible as a historical record, contradictions began to expose their literary overreach. Circumcision can only take a people so far and covenants are no guarantee against reality nor can it compensate for the burden of memory carried by the Jews who wished they were better than their neighbours and invented a narrative that reflected their deepest desires.
Now that we know why the contradictions were necessary in the creation of the Jewish people we can try to piece together how these contradictions served their narrative.
You haven't been here long enough to know that we have discussed pretty much anything you bring up in Tanakh - multiple times.
"The Archaeological Evidence for the Bible is Non-Existent!"
"The Archaeological Evidence for the Bible is scarce. In fact, it is non-existent. After 200 years of Christian archaeologists digging up the whole Middle East, they haven"t found any proof of the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, Hebrew Slaves or the Ten Plagues. NONE!!! And this from a nation of people who wrote EVERYTHING down in stone!! And Sinai has no proof of any large group of people travelling through it EVER!!! The first evidence correlating to the biblical story doesn"t appear in Canaan archaeology until around 100 years before the Babylonian Captivity (around 600 BC).
This lack of evidence includes Patriachs such as David and Solomon who are not found in records from other nations and supposedly lived relatively close to those who wrote the Bible in the Babylonian Captivity around 500 B.C.
“The Archaeological Evidence for the Bible is Non-Existent!”
You should read past the first couple of paragraphs when you send us to a site. The bold paragraphs at the top are from a letter sent to them. Below it is their rebuttal. Your article says there
IS evidence for King David.
"There are two other possible indications (not yet conclusive) which mention David. Kenneth Kitchen (University of Liverpool) makes a strong case for a mention of David by pharaoh Sheshonq I in the tenth century B.C. It is in the temple of Amun at Karnak. This pharaoh is mentioned in I Kings 14:25 (Hebrew:
Shishak). The exact letters are
dvt. In the transliteration of words from one Semitic language to another,
d and
t are often used interchangeably. We have a clear example of this from the sixth century B.C. in a victory inscription of an Ethiopic ruler who is celebrating his triumphs. He quotes two of David’s Psalms (19 and 65), and the reference is
unmistakably to the Biblical king David. Here too the
t is used rather than the
d. Granted, this is sixth century, but it shows an Ethiopic king was aware of and refers to David as a real person and two of his literary efforts.
An additional reference comes from the Moabite Stone (which is not yet completely deciphered). It is also called the Mesha Stele, which is contemporaneous with the Tel Dan inscription (ninth century B.C.) Andre Lemaire, the eminent French paleographer, believes he has detected a reference to the House of David on the Mesha Stele."
We also have this from Biblical Archaeology Magazine.
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21. David, king, r. ca. 1010–970, 1 Samuel 16:13, etc. in three inscriptions. Most notable is the victory stele in Aramaic known as the “house of David” inscription, discovered at Tel Dan; Avraham Biran and Joseph Naveh, “An Aramaic Stele from Tel Dan,”
IEJ 43 (1993), pp. 81–98, and idem, “The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment,”
IEJ 45 (1995), pp. 1–18. An ancient Aramaic word pattern in line 9 designates David as the founder of the dynasty of Judah in the phrase “house of David” (2 Sam 2:11 and 5:5; Gary A. Rendsburg, “On the Writing ביתדיד [BYTDWD] in the Aramaic Inscription from Tel Dan,”
IEJ 45 [1995], pp. 22–25;
Raging Torrent, p. 20, under “Ba’asha . . .”;
IBP, pp. 110–132, 265–77; “Sixteen,” pp. 41–43)....In the second inscription, the Mesha Inscription, the phrase “house of David” appears in Moabite in line 31 with the same meaning: that he is the founder of the dynasty..."
So why has the Bible a book of Alternat Facts fascinated the Western World and kept alive by 2 billion Christians when it was written to preserve the Jewish memory of their history reconstructed on Alternate Facts and, especially when the Bible did not serve the Jews well? The bible concluded in the demise of the Jewish people, their messiah was crucified by the Romans, Jerusalem destroyed along with their temple followed by 2000 years of persecution and expulsions. It also left a sliver of hope that God would someday restore the Jewish nation to its everlasting glory. But how does that comport with the Christians who see their own salvation and future buried in the same Jewish narrative? ........Harikrish.
Wow, you really need to reread Tanakh. You have come up with some of the same errors that Christians have.
THE MESSIAH of the Jews has not come yet. The messiah/anointed one whom was killed in the text, was one of thousands of anointed people at that time = Priests, Kings, Judges, etc.
Watch the video in # 122. He tells you whom that particular messiah/anointed one was.
The second half is particularly interesting.
Obviously the Jewish people are still around.
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Got this from Google, I'll search for the ones I saved tomorrow.
