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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts |
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5 Responses to “The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts”
February 28th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
The authors have twisted biblical archeology to question or deny many aspects of the Hebrew Scriptures. The book’s contents are given away by the front jacket summary: The authors explain “how and why the Bible’s historical saga differs so dramatically from the archeological finds. They explain what the Bible says about ancient Israel and show how it (the Bible) diverges sharply from archeological reality.”
This is nothing more than two “experts” trying to show that the Bible is not God’s inspired Word. NOT WORTH WASTING TIME READING!
RUSS MINER
Rating: 1 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
This book asserts that the patriarchs didnt exist, that exodus never happened, and that we only have recent history. There is one fact alone that puts this book in the trash bin: the fact that kohanim DNA is genetically traceable to one common ancestor who lived about 4000 years ago. That sort of puts a nice wrinkle in the assumptions found here, doesn’t it. I wonder if they can explain that one away.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
The authors suceeded into raising questions-but thats all- the haven’t succeeded into disproving the bible.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
This authors of this book realize the Bible is historically accurate, even bringing up ancient evidence which shows the Bible (which is a detailed historical record thousands of years old which over and over has shown itself to be true) shows the Bible to be true, but get this, that’s not good enough for the authors, they can’t allow themselves to be astonished at that fact, no they’ve got to push their own opinions and take the evidence they find out of the context of all the other evidences. They attempt to show that the Bible is not true in all it says, BECAUSE THEY CAN’T FIND EVIDENCE FOR EVERY SINGLE STATEMENT. Well big surprise, not everything lasts forever, deal with it and get over your arrogant selves. More examples of the author’s con artistry, check out this review:
“Most of the Bible is found to be legend or propaganda favoring that party or its agenda. [O.K., now what is this statement based on? Nothing!] The Israelites did not come from somewhere else, neither Ur nor Egypt, but are the same people who had been living there for millennia, not much different from any of their neighbors, like the Canaanites. This is pretty much accepted as fact by most experts.” And what was that last statement based on? It was based on “most experts” huh? Sure, but who are “most experts”? Saying “most experts” said so IS NOT SCIENTIFIC REASONING OR EVIDENCE and is not logical evidence. “Most experts” claimed blacks were inferior and that brain size determined intelligence, and were they right? Furthermore, what about the other experts? Do they not count merely because they are fewer in number?
Here’s the rest of that review:
“The authors add to this, however, the more controversial position that in fact there was never even a united monarchy: according to their view, this was a deliberate invention serving the interests of some of the kings of Judah (spearheaded by the ambitious Josiah, whom the Bible depicts actually ‘discovering’ the book of Deuteronomy) who dreamed of conquering the northern territory of Israel.”
Guess who made the review I quoted? Neil Asher Silberman: one of the authors.
Another reviewer who rated this book four stars made this stupid claim (which shows you how much intelligence and knowledge the people have who are wallowing in the stupidty of this book):
“Excellent Primer on Current Biblical Archeology, February 20, 2003 Reviewer: hominuslupus “hominuslupus” (albuquerque, nm USA)
The ‘Bible’ held an unexamined position of absolute authority for much of the past two millenia. Only in the past century has it undergone a methodogical and undogmatic scrutiny.”
Why did he put Bible in quotes lol? The word bible means “a collection of books” so why the quotes? Is there something suspicious about the usage of the word Bible lol? And the bible hasn’t been methodically challenged for 2000 years and before that time because 1) The majority of Jews who had it hated hearing the truth 2) When they did challenge it were hammered by God for their rebellion which shut them up for long periods of time and a few times even got them to admit the truth 3) As for the whole Bible not being methodically challenged, that’s because there wasn’t a whole lot of the conveniences we have today like the internet, printers, wealth, etc., and 4) It WASN’T ALL PUT TOGETHER YET 5) Was hard to get a hold of and 6) was written in an uncommon language: Latin.
And people wonder why Christians get mad.
Anyways, see The Bible as History which was written FIFTY YEARS AGO and proves this book to be garbage and Before the Flood (which I also reviewed) which like the Bible Unearthed attempts to refute the Bible’s EXACT story while ironically bringing up evidence which shows the Bible IS HISTORICALLY ACCURATE.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
I am SO glad I checked this one out from the library before buying it. The authors are by no means researchers. The jump to conclusions prematurely. I was amazed it was printed before someone told these two that they need to do more research. There are better books out there…find one!
Rating: 1 / 5