We have William Dever and Joel Baden giving the consensus opinion, both I linked to. The only evidence you sourced isn't yet evidence. So are you now just straight up lying or do you have evidence.
There is no evidence ever of armed conflict in Canaan.
THE ORIGINS OF ISRAEL
Q: What have archeologists learned from these settlements about the early Israelites? Are there signs that the Israelites came in conquest, taking over the land from Canaanites?
Dever: The settlements were founded not on the ruins of destroyed Canaanite towns but rather on bedrock or on virgin soil. There was no evidence of armed conflict in most of these sites. Archeologists also have discovered that most of the large Canaanite towns that were supposedly destroyed by invading Israelites were either not destroyed at all or destroyed by "Sea People"—Philistines, or others.
So gradually the old conquest model [based on the accounts of Joshua's conquests in the Bible] began to lose favor amongst scholars. Many scholars now think that most of the early Israelites were originally Canaanites, displaced Canaanites, displaced from the lowlands, from the river valleys, displaced geographically and then displaced ideologically.
Archaeologist Carol Meyers, Exodus is a foundation myth. Maybe a few people came from Egypt and joined the Israelites and those stories became Exodus.
Remembering the Exodus
So even though most of the early Israelites had not themselves made the exodus from Egypt, they adopt this story as part of their heritage.
Yes. While very few Israelites may have actually made the trek across Sinai, it becomes the national story of all Israelites and is celebrated in all kinds of ways. Their agricultural festivals become celebrations of freedom, for instance. Many aspects of a new culture emerge and are linked with the "memories" of exodus.
The people who made the exodus from Egypt remember the experience, relive it, recreate it in rituals. They pass their rituals on to others, to future generations and to other people. We do this in our own American lives: Very few of us have ancestors who came over on the
Mayflower, and yet that story has become part of our national story.
Biblical scholar and archeologist Carol Meyers offers a new and surprising view of the iconic exodus from Egypt.
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It cannot. The first book, Genesis is a re-write of Mesopotamian flood and creation myths.
David and Isaiah are forgeries and the NT is all syncretism.
PROVING THE BIBLE
Q: Have biblical archeologists traditionally tried to find evidence that events in the Bible really happened?
William Dever: From the beginnings of what we call biblical archeology, perhaps 150 years ago, scholars, mostly western scholars, have attempted to use archeological data to prove the Bible. And for a long time it was thought to work. [William Foxwell] Albright, the great father of our discipline, often spoke of the "archeological revolution." Well, the revolution has come but not in the way that Albright thought. The truth of the matter today is that archeology raises more questions about the historicity of the Hebrew Bible and even the New Testament than it provides answers, and that's very disturbing to some people.
In this article, archaeologist and biblical scholar William Dever discusses how archeology can offer vivid insights into the biblical world.
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Because the vast majority of temples found has uncovered thousands of goddess figurines. The Documentary Hypothesis has nothing to do with origins, it has to do with who wrote scripture and when.
The text does not "exactly" tell you most people worshipped a consort of Yahweh. Genesis is a myth, Exodus is a foundation myth, the kingdom was much more small scale and no supernatural aspects can ever be proven. This is just one of the thousands of cultural myths.
Proverbs uses wisdom found in Egyptian and Mesopotamian sites, meaning it isn't from a God, it's created by people.
You have not. Just the one where zero evidence has been released.
There is an interview with the worlds most prolific Biblical archaeologist right heree -
In this article, archaeologist and biblical scholar William Dever discusses how archeology can offer vivid insights into the biblical world.
www.pbs.org
you would think you would read it and understand. But you know it doesn't match your beliefs so you look elsewhere. This is not how one finds truth, this is how one uses confirmation bias to find only things that re-enforce an already formed belief system. Having nothing to do with what is actually true.
Dever is explaining archaeology cannot prove Biblical narratives?
Why yes, actually, it's always based on evidence. I constantly demonstrate this and you continue to tap dance around obvious facts.
Historians only go by evidence.
You might as well say the same about science.
There is no evidence of anything supernatural. There is archaeological evidence that the Biblical narrative is syncretic mythology mixed with some history.
The textual evidence is massive that it's typical syncretic mythology.
What else is there?
No, you get this wrong over and over. I have ideas that I suspect are true but I want to know what is actually true. If there is a God who loves blood sacrifice I want to know. I use evidence to form my beliefs. I thought at least there would be some spiritual mysteries in Eastern religions, but I wait to see what the actual evidence is. Not what a Hindu tells me her grandmother swears she saw when she was 9. If you want true beliefs you need a sound methodology, using empirical evidence to test those beliefs and be able to let go when proven wrong. Otherwise you will never know anything that is true.
First of all demons are not real. That is something to scare small children into going to bed, not to form a worldview on.
But yes, are demons not supposed to encourage people to do bad subliminally? Not lay out rules for a kind and compassionate life?
Even the Bible doesn't say set slaves free. Here is a free tip. PEOPLE wrote this. PEOPLE wrote and invented the gospels.
Don't confuse truth with falsehood or knowingly conceal the truth.
2:42
- Be good to parents, relatives, orphans, and the needy. Speak kindly and pay the poor-due. 2:83
- If you believe it, prove it. (A good rule, but does it apply to Muslims, too?) 2:111
- The Jews say the Christians are wrong, and vice versa. Yet they both believe in the Scriptures. 2:113
- Give of your wealth to family, relatives, and the needy. Set slaves free. 2:177
- Do not fight wars of aggression. (Does this apply only during Ramadan?) 2:190
- "Do good." 2:195
- Spend your money for good: to help your parents, your family, orphans, wayfarers, and the needy. 2:215
- Help orphans. 2:220
- "Make not Allah, by your oaths, a hindrance to ... making peace among mankind." 2:224
- "There is no compulsion in religion." (But see the next verse which says that disbelievers will burn forever in Hell.) 2:256
- Pay the poor-due. , , 2:277
- "If the debtor is in straitened circumstances, then (let there be) postponement to (the time of) ease." 2:280
- Don't argue about things that you know nothing about. 3:66
- Feed and clothe the needy. Set a slave free. 5:89"
- Do good to parents, don't kill your children or other living things unnecessarily. 6:151
- Pay the poor-due. 7:156
- Be kind and forgiving toward others. 7:199
- And if they incline to peace, incline thou also to it. 8:61-Quran
