You mean, there was no Abraham 1750 BC
and no Sodom and Gomorah 1650 BC
Abraham is probably a literary creation, William Dever Biblical archaeologist:
"One of the first efforts of biblical archeology in the last century was to prove the historicity of the patriarchs, to locate them in a particular period in the archeological history. Today I think most archeologists would argue that there is no direct archeological proof that Abraham, for instance, ever lived. We do know a lot about pastoral nomads, we know about the Amorites' migrations from Mesopotamia to Canaan, and it's possible to see in that an Abraham-like figure somewhere around 1800 B.C.E. But there's no direct connection."
The towns and cities were not as large as described. Sure they existed. Yahweh is their mythical deity in change.
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The Bible describes it as a glorious kingdom stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia. Does archeology back up these descriptions?
The stories of Solomon are larger than life. According to the stories, Solomon imported 100,000 workers from what is now Lebanon. Well, the whole population of Israel probably wasn't 100,000 in the 10th century. Everything Solomon touched turned to gold. In the minds of the biblical writers, of course, David and Solomon are ideal kings chosen by Yahweh. So they glorify them.
Now, archeology can't either prove or disprove the stories. But I think most archeologists today would argue that the United Monarchy was not much more than a kind of hill-country chiefdom. It was very small-scale."
and no Canaanite invasion of Egypt (late Bronze)
I don't know what the Canaanites did before they split into Israelites and Judahites? Some of the Biblical history is true. Smaller than reported. The deities are the main fiction. Like all nations.
The origins of Israel
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?
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.
So what we are dealing with is a movement of peoples but not an invasion of an armed corps from the outside. A social and economic revolution, if you will, rather than a military revolution. And it begins a slow process in which the Israelites distinguish themselves from their Canaanite ancestors, particularly in religion—with a new deity, new religious laws and customs, new ethnic markers, as we would call them today.
and no Moses (mass migrations Bronze Age Collapse)
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No, Exodus isn't likely, Israel came peacefully from Canan. Those are national myths written to unify the people and give them an identity.
Moses is considered a literary creation - "Generally, Moses is seen as a
legendary figure, whilst retaining the possibility that Moses or a Moses-like figure existed in the 13th century BCE.
[14][15][16][17][18] "
The stories of Moses life are largely stories also found in older Egyptian myths.
and no Joshua's curse on Mount Ebal
and no cultic center at Shiloh (war of the Phillistines)
and no House of David ca 1000 BC
and no House of Omri in Samaria ca 885 BC
and no Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah ?????
I didn't say there were no Israelites, Judahites and the 12 tribes. They has their own mythology like every of the thousands of nations.
And what about Jesus and those of his ministry during Roman times, they didn't exist either ????
There was definitely a ministry. It was at least 50% Gnostic (compltely different theology) until the 3rd century when Rome made a canon official.
The Gospels tell the story of a Jewish version of a popular Greek savior demigod story that most of the mystery religions already had. This comes from Hellenism.
“Christianity is not a Jewish religion, it’s a Hellenistic religion.”
“Jesus is of Jewish ethnicity but is telling the story of a Hellenistic deity”
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Carl A. P. Ruck (born December 8, 1935, Bridgeport, Connecticut), is a professor in the Classical Studies department at Boston University. He received his B.A. at Yale University, his M.A. at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. at Harvard University.
There are Persian myths in the NT as well, both Greeks and Persians occupied th eHebrew nation for many decades before the NT was written.
During the period of the
Second Temple (c.515 BC – 70 AD), the Hebrew people lived under the rule of first the Persian
Achaemenid Empire, then the
Greek kingdoms of the
Diadochi, and finally the
Roman Empire.
[47] Their culture was profoundly influenced by those of the peoples who ruled them.
[47] Consequently, their views on existence after death were profoundly shaped by the ideas of the Persians,
Greeks, and Romans.
[48][49] The idea of the
immortality of the soul is derived from Greek philosophy[49] and the idea of the
resurrection of the dead is derived from Persian cosmology.
[49] By the early first century AD, these two seemingly incompatible ideas were often conflated by Hebrew thinkers.
[49] The Hebrews also
inherited from the Persians,
Greeks, and Romans the idea that the
human soul originates in the divine realm and seeks to return there.
[47] The idea that a
human soul belongs in Heaven and that Earth is merely a temporary abode in which the
soul is tested to prove its worthiness became increasingly popular during t
he Hellenistic period (323 – 31 BC).
[40] Gradually, some Hebrews began to adopt the idea of Heaven as the eternal home of the righteous dead.
[40]
The Hellenistic World: The World of Alexander the Great
Hellenistic thought is evident in the narratives which make up the books of the Bible as the Hebrew Scriptures were revised and canonized during the Second Temple Period (c.515 BCE-70 CE), the latter part of which was during the
Hellenic Period of the region.
The gospels and epistles of the Christian New Testament were written in Greek and draw on
Greek philosophy and religion as, for example, in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in which the word becomes flesh, a Platonic concept.
