Archeology is Demolishing the History of the Bible 2001 The following are verbatim excerpts from news articles, which are linked below. This material is readily available to all for verification. salon/books/feature/2001/02/07/solomon/index.html Exodus never happened and the walls of Jericho did not come a-tumbling down. How archaeologists are shaking Israel to its biblical foundations. Israel Finkelstein, chairman of the Archaeology Department at Tel Aviv University, with archaeology historian Neil Asher Silberman, has just published a book called The Bible Unearthed: Archaeologys New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Text. The Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land [of Canaan] in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the twelve tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is the fact that the united kingdom of David and Solomon, described in the Bible as a regional power, was at most a small tribal kingdom.
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