Israeli archaeologist ; No evidence to support Israelites. Old Testament is a myth.

Cypress said:
Israel is mentioned in the Meneptah Stele discovered in Thebes Egypt which dates to the New Kingdom around 1200 BCE.



Archaeology has disproved Joshua's version of a one-time spectacularly successful military campaign to conquer the land of Canaan. But archaeology suggests the account in Judges of a gradual settlement of the Israelites around 1200 BCE in the central highlands Canaan is closer to historical reality. (Source: Cynthia Chapman, professor of Biblical studies)
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Good point......but don't expect burka-wearing anti-American foreigners to agree with you. :)
 
Doc Dutch said:
Good point......but don't expect burka-wearing anti-American foreigners to agree with you. :)
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Archaeology and literary analysis proves some stories in the Hebrew Bible are embellished, while proving there is more than a kernel of truth to other biblical stories.

Didn't all sentient people who graduated high school already know that, or did Moon assume he had made a deep and profound insight by starting this thread?
 
Cypress said:
Archaeology and literary analysis proves some stories in the Hebrew Bible are embellished, while proving there is more than a kernel of truth to other biblical stories.

Didn't all sentient people who graduated high school already know that, or did Moon assume he had made a deep and profound insight by starting this thread?
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Our little Moonbeam was raised to hate Jews. There is no logic in her hatred.
 
This kind of post is just an absurdity. Like someone denying the holocaust, they simply ignore evidence and repeat stuff. Nothing you say will convince a bigot they are wrong, best to just talk around them and tell the truth while speaking to others than to address an idiot bigot directly, they just don't learn anything and drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
 
Damocles said:
This kind of post is just an absurdity. Like someone denying the holocaust, they simply ignore evidence and repeat stuff. Nothing you say will convince a bigot they are wrong, best to just talk around them and tell the truth while speaking to others than to address an idiot bigot directly, they just don't learn anything and drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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if you are referring to me, in my experience, I've done all the beating......
 
goat said:
What claim in the OP do you find absurd?
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All of it is absurd. As I noted earlier, this is the kind of idiocy you get form a "Flat Earth Theorist", they say stupid things, ignore actual evidence, repeat and then spike the football because they've forgotten they are playing golf. People who make claims like, "There is no evidence of the Hebrew tribes" and then continue to breathe do it with their mouths open and their foreheads sloping. These are the same idiots who will tell me that my grandfather didn't see concentration camps in Germany and that the Holocaust wasn't real.
 
Damocles said:
All of it is absurd. As I noted earlier, this is the kind of idiocy you get form a "Flat Earth Theorist", they say stupid things, ignore actual evidence, repeat and then spike the football because they've forgotten they are playing golf. People who make claims like, "There is no evidence of the Hebrew tribes" and then continue to breathe do it with their mouths open and their foreheads sloping. These are the same idiots who will tell me that my grandfather didn't see concentration camps in Germany and that the Holocaust wasn't real.
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What evidence is there of Israelites in Egypt?
 
Damocles said:
This kind of post is just an absurdity. Like someone denying the holocaust, they simply ignore evidence and repeat stuff. Nothing you say will convince a bigot they are wrong, best to just talk around them and tell the truth while speaking to others than to address an idiot bigot directly, they just don't learn anything and drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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There is no evidence for the Exodus. In fact, all the evidence points against the Exodus.

1. During the time that the Exodus is alleged to have occurred, the “Promised Land” was still part of the Egyptian empire. It wasn't until centuries later that Egypt’s reach had shrunken enough for Palestine to be considered outside of Egypt’s borders. The story was clearly invented at a later date by people who didn't know this.

2. The numbers don't add up!

According to the Bible, 600,000 men left Egypt to follow Moses. This number doesn't include wives, children, or servants, all of whom are mentioned as uncounted extras in addition to the 600,000. Let's be conservative and assume that only 1/4 of the men had one wife each, thus adding an additional 150,000 people to the number of those fleeing Egypt.

600,000 men + 150,000 women = 750,000 people.

And if we we assume that, of those 150,000 married couples, each has, on average, two children, that gives us an additional 300,000 people.

750,000 + 300,000 = 1,050,000. (And that's not counting the servants who are said to have left, too.)

We're talking about over a million people just dropping their lives and evacuating Egypt. It may not sound like a lot, but consider that Egypt's population at the time was an estimated 3.5 million.

If 1/3 of Egypt's population had randomly disappeared, Egypt's economy would have crumbled. Yet there is no evidence that such an socioeconomic downfall ever occurred at that time.
 
America said:
There is no evidence for the Exodus. In fact, all the evidence points against the Exodus.

1. During the time that the Exodus is alleged to have occurred, the “Promised Land” was still part of the Egyptian empire. It wasn't until centuries later that Egypt’s reach had shrunken enough for Palestine to be considered outside of Egypt’s borders. The story was clearly invented at a later date by people who didn't know this.

2. The numbers don't add up!

According to the Bible, 600,000 men left Egypt to follow Moses. This number doesn't include wives, children, or servants, all of whom are mentioned as uncounted extras in addition to the 600,000. Let's be conservative and assume that only 1/4 of the men had one wife each, thus adding an additional 150,000 people to the number of those fleeing Egypt.

600,000 men + 150,000 women = 750,000 people.

And if we we assume that, of those 150,000 married couples, each has, on average, two children, that gives us an additional 300,000 people.

750,000 + 300,000 = 1,050,000. (And that's not counting the servants who are said to have left, too.)

We're talking about over a million people just dropping their lives and evacuating Egypt. It may not sound like a lot, but consider that Egypt's population at the time was an estimated 3.5 million.

If 1/3 of Egypt's population had randomly disappeared, Egypt's economy would have crumbled. Yet there is no evidence that such an socioeconomic downfall ever occurred at that time.
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I have no doubt ancient stories were exaggerated. Still, most have a basis in truth. If a tribe of a few hundred Hebrews were cut loose to leave Egypt, it would make for good campfire stories.

Regardless, why do you hate Christians and Jews so much? Do you also hate Muslims? Buddhists? Hindus?
 
Doc Dutch said:
I have no doubt ancient stories were exaggerated. Still, most have a basis in truth. If a tribe of a few hundred Hebrews were cut loose to leave Egypt, it would make for good campfire stories.

Regardless, why do you hate Christians and Jews so much? Do you also hate Muslims? Buddhists? Hindus?
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I don't hate anyone. I hate religion.
 
Imagine not hating any people!

What would that be like?

Is there anybody who would even know?

I've got to think no.

Mother Teresa must have loathed somebody.
 
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