I put up a $3K challenge about 4 days ago, no takers. I got replies and messages esposing this and that using wise sounding phrases but no takers. Put you money where your mouth is ainti up!!! Prove the truth of islam, christianity and judaism. Prove black people are crazy for following the religions of the 3 groups of people that killed raped tortured and mudered over 40 million of their ancestors. Come get your money!!! I have 5 thousand folowers somone wants to get paid where are the faithful, the scholars the devote. However if you loose I get paid you must denounce the religion of the slaver, rapsit and murderer (except for Sudanese and Ethiopian Christianity they didnt partake in this cruelty) and learn from The Neter Sesen and walk the path of Maat. I will give you a fighting chance....The founder of Judaism the parent religion of Christianity and Islam Abraham of the bible never exsisted.... this will be my opening Salvo...and here is why... Abraham could not have walked from Ur to Egypt back than so lets start with camels...There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place. Camels probably had little or no role in the lives of such early Jewish patriarchs as Abraham, Jacob and Joseph, who lived in the first half of the second millennium B.C., and yet stories about them mention these domesticated pack animals more than 20 times. Genesis 24, for example, tells of Abraham’s servant going by camel on a mission to find a wife for Isaac. These anachronisms are telling evidence that the Bible was written or edited long after the events it narrates and is not always reliable as verifiable history. These camel stories “do not encapsulate memories from the second millennium,” said Noam Mizrahi, an Israeli biblical scholar, “but should be viewed as back-projections from a much later period.” Dr. Mizrahi likened the practice to a historical account of medieval events that veers off to a description of “how people in the Middle Ages used semitrailers in order to transport goods from one European kingdom to another.” For two archaeologists at Tel Aviv University, the anachronisms were motivation to dig for camel bones at an ancient copper smelting camp in the Aravah Valley in Israel and in Wadi Finan in Jordan. They sought evidence of when domesticated camels were first introduced into the land of Israel and the surrounding region. The archaeologists, Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible. Some bones in deeper sediments, they said, probably belonged to wild camels that people hunted for their meat. Dr. Sapir-Hen could identify a domesticated animal by signs in leg bones that it had carried heavy loads. The findings were published recently in the journal Tel Aviv and in a news release from Tel Aviv University. The archaeologists said that the origin of the domesticated camel was probably in the Arabian Peninsula, which borders the Aravah Valley. Egyptians exploited the copper resources there and probably had a hand in introducing the camels. Earlier, people in the region relied on mules and donkeys as their beasts of burden. In the early to mid-20th century, leading scholars such as William F. Albright and Albrecht Alt believed the patriarchs and matriarchs to be either real individuals or believable composite people living in the patriarchal age, the 2nd millennium BCE. In the 1970s, however, new conclusions about Israels past and the biblical texts challenged this portrait. The two works largely responsible were Thomas L. Thompsons The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), and John Van Seters Abraham in History and Tradition (1975). Thompsons argument, based on archaeology and ancient texts, was that no compelling evidence pointed to the patriarchs living in the 2nd millennium and that the biblical texts reflected first millennium conditions and concerns; Van Seters, basing himself on an examination of the patriarchal stories, agreed with Thompson that their names, social milieu and messages strongly suggested that they were Iron Age creations.[8] By the beginning of the 21st century, and despite sporadic attempts by more conservative scholars such as Kenneth Kitchen to save the patriarchal narratives as history, archaeologists had given up hope of recovering any context that would make Abraham, Isaac or Jacob credible historical figures In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from Ur of the Chaldees (Ur Kaśdim); if this city is to be identified with the ancient Sumerian city state of Ur, it would be within what would many centuries later become the Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although it must be pointed out that the Chaldeans certainly did not exist in Mesopotamia (or anywhere else in historical record) at the time that Abraham is believed to have existed (circa 1800-1700 BC), arriving some eight or nine hundred years later.[9] This fact casts serious doubt on the chronological accuracy and historicity of the Abrahamic story. On the other hand, the traditional identification with a site in Assyria (a nation in northern Mesopotamia both predating Chaldea by well over one thousand three hundred years, and one which was never recorded in historical record as ever having been inhabited by the much later arriving Chaldeans) would then imply the later sense of Babylonia. Some interpreters have additionally tried to identify Abrahams birthplace with Chaldia in Asia Minor on the Black Sea, a distinct region utterly unrelated geographically, culturally and ethnically to the south east Mesopotamian Chaldea. According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kaśdim (and Chaldea) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad. However, by the beginning of the 21st century, and despite sporadic attempts by more conservative theologically minded scholars such as Kenneth Kitchen to save these Biblical patriarchal narratives as actual true history, many modern archaeologists and historians had given up hope of recovering any context that would make Abraham, Isaac or Jacob credible or realistic historical figures[10]
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