[PattonFan]

Biblical references have gained "new plausibility," they conclude.

Gods Word needs no human "plausibility".

A person believes it - or not.

I believe, and will not argue the point..those that don't can go to..well, we know where they go.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Sadly this "scholarship" seems motivated by an effort to dismantle or dishonor Jewish people and traditions.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Knitting A Conundrum]

Wow...I just got that issue today...first time that's happened, that I bought a journal on the same day you listed an article from it...

[SunkenCiv]

Dead link, but interesting:

Did Joshua Destroy Canaanite Hatzor?
Bridges for Peace

The discovery of several cuneiform tablets at the 800-dunam (200-acre) site over the years points to the likelihood that Hatzor will produce the first ancient archive, other than the Dead Sea Scrolls, ever to be found in the country. Such an archive would shed light on the Canaanite city which, the Bible tells us, Joshua "burnt with fire" (Joshua 11:11) after its king led a federation of cities that battled against the Israelite incursion. More than that, it would shed light on a historically crucial period we know little about.

Ben-Tor has yet to find the archive, but he appears to be getting closer. Until this year, he hoped there might be two archives - one in each of the two palaces identified on the acropolis atop the tel. The late Prof. Yigael Yadin had been the first to identify a palace during his landmark dig at Hatzor in the 1950s, dating it to the 18th century BC or Middle Bronze (MB) period. That [fit] perfectly with the date of the royal archive in Mari, Syria, in which cuneiform messages relating to MB Hatzor were found - the first hint of a possible archive at Hatzor.

However, when Ben-Tor began his excavations in 1990 he came upon a palace near Yadin's which he dated, by means of its ceramics, to a few hundred years later - that is, to the last half of the second millennium or Late Bronze (LB) period. The generally accepted dating of the biblical destruction of Hatzor by Joshua roughly coincides with the date of this LB palace's destruction, the 14th or 13th centuries BCE. This summer, as he probed the area of the palaces, Ben-Tor began to have an uneasy feeling that Yadin, his former teacher, had made a wrong dating and that there was in fact only one palace - his own LB structure.

Heh heh...

[Radix]

Somewhere in the mix of the Empires of Babylon, Media-Persia, Phoenecia, the Greeks, the Seleucids, the Assyrians and all of the rest....

Some small Clans, Tribes, Families, whatever somehow made a difference because of their peculiar ways... and thus somehow impacted the course of world history for millenia.

An impact that should in no way be unrecognized or unacknowledged by thinking persons.

[WoofDog123]

i have no dog in the fight over the religious issues many focus on, but time and time again I have found the Old Testament to be an excellent historical source. I don't doubt there is some embellishment on certain topics, which is an entirely smaller scale of distortion than some want to make out.

[Alexander Rubin]

Bible ping.

People trying to 'debunk' King David.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Some scholars are busily debunking the Bible's account of the great King David...

Hmmmmmm. Let's see- who should I believe as to the truth of the Word of God? God or man, God or man, God or man, God or man, God or man.

What a joke and what puny, irrevelant fools are those who actually embark on a serious attempt to "disprove" Scripture.

Psalm 2:4:

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. What a frightening thing it is to be laughed at by God!

It never, ever, ceases to amaze me that, instead of seeking God and joyfully accepting His gift of eternal life and a personal relationship with Him, fallen mankind spends his short years here on earth at war with Him, obsessed with "proving" that He doesn't exist, and, in the end, losing the war with God and spending all eternity in desolation and alone.

I just don't get it.

[SunkenCiv]

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