That isn't true. Prophets appear in the Bible at least as far back as the beginning of the monarchy in Israel. Not to mention Moses.
All Fables, the Jewish equivilent of Hercules & Prometheus & the Trojan War mythic stories, this is what new evidence points to & intuition assures you is true. Knowing what human nature & the lure power of written/scribed aggrandized propaganda, something you'd easily be drawn to, as all fundamentalist are, as we know. (all fundamentalists, Islam, Jew & Christian that choose fables over reality)
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The Bible Unearthed concludes that the biblical writers deliberately invented the empire, power, and wealth, of Saul, David, and Solomon, by appropriating the deeds and achievements of the Omrides, so that they could then denigrate the Omrides and obscure their accomplishments, since these kings held a religious viewpoint that was anathema to the biblical editors. [34]
The Book of Kings, as it stands today, seems to suggest that the religion of Israel and Judah was primarily monotheistic, with one or two wayward kings (such as the Omrides) who tried to introduce Canaanite polytheism, the people occasionally joining in this 'apostasy' from monotheism, but a close reading and the archaeological record reveals that the opposite was true. [35] Iron Age remains show that in the time of the setting of the Book of Kings, sacrifices continued to be offered at hilltop shrines (which the Bible terms "high places"), incense and libations were being offered throughout the land, and clay figurines of deities were still being used in homes everywhere in the land as household gods; [35] one inscription from the Shephelah, dating from the period, even refers to " YHWH and his Asherah". [36] |
