Thomas...So why are you sending this to me is it a response to something I have said?
This is the statement you posted..." <<< Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral and folk traditions (many of them going far back) in the Hellenistic period. That was one of several currents, of which the collection that formed the New Testament was another. Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now generally recognized in Biblical scholarship that it has done the opposite. The Bible is not a historical text, and has only vague resemblances to what took place, as far as can be reconstructed. For example, whether Israel ever existed is not clear; if so, it was probably a small kingdom somewhere in the hills, apparently virtually unknown to the Egyptians. >>>"...
And here is the ending to the above statement you posted
...." That's my understanding, from casual reading; I haven't followed recent work closely."...
This guy is referring to a bible or biblical archaeology
Not archaeology itself.
How come you missed posting the end to that statement...maybe because the guy said his info is from causal reading?? or he really hasn't followed it very closely...sounds like the guy is saying he really don't know a whole lot about the subject so what was your point in posting the above. Does it really bother you that the state of Israel existed that long ago??
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