The Bible Unearthed : The Patriarchs, The Exodus, The Kings, The Book
by frankiespeakin 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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mP
Dont get Christians started on Israel Finkelstein, hes a fraud and doesnot know anything, even if he is a world expert on ancient Israel.
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Witness My Fury
Yeah good vids I've seen them all, they are a kind of preamble / simplified version of the book they wrote of the same name.
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Larsinger58
I like Israel Finkelstein. He is so anxious to prove the Bible wrong, he ends up doing just the opposite. He's a great archaeologist but he is a biased Biblical historian. Even so, his research might not confirm the popular timeline which is distorted by the Assyrian eponym eclipse being dated to 763 BCE rather than 871 BCE, but it does confirm the timeline that the bible establishes which is 54 years later for the time of Shishak.
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Witness My Fury
And of course you have NO bias Lars?
He's not out to prove the bible wrong, he's just going where the archaeology points instead of forcing it to fit the bible like they used to do "with a bible in one hand and a spade in the other."
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marmot
mP, would you care to elaborate on why he is a "fraud" and doesn't know anything? I read and appreciated the book and thought he was very even-handed, giving equal voice to the opposition.
Or maybe my sarcasm meter is broken.
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Witness My Fury
He was being sarcastic..