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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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Convincing presentation by two Israeli scholars of the lack of archeological evidence supporting the Bible as an historical account, and the large amount of evidence contradicting the Biblical account of history. The authors' hypothesis of the Biblical account's origins and motives is separate from this overwhelming amount of data pointing to the Bible as largely historical fiction.
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Jul 19, 2012 06:24AM
I was looking at the possibility of giving this book to someone as a present, but it sounds like a pretty uninformed critifcism. If the pentateuch wa not written by Moses, we must conclude Jesus was a liar or an ignoramus, for he quoted Moses as Scripture in His reply to the Pharisees in Mark chapter 10.
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The authors' criticism is well informed - that the pentateuch was not written by Moses is widely accepted among scholars, and the implications of the archeology are more radical still. However, if you are convinced that the bible is literally true, it certainly would not be a book you would wish to give as a gift.
Baff, your logic is circular and based on the idea that the Bible, or at least the New Testament, is the literal truth. The NT was written years and centuries after Jesus lived. Jesus did not write the NT. The authors of the NT knew the pentateuch well too and quoted it liberally. Look up pseudoepigraphic and you'll see what I mean.
Just to clarify, Neil Silverman is an American.
