Reddit reviews The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

The whole First Temple period is legendary as represented in the Hebrew Bible. Modern archaeology suggests there was no United Kingdom ruled from Jerusalem, or that it may be a Judaean spin on the Omride dynasty ruled from the "Northern Kingdom" in Samaria; and household idols appear in roughly equal abundance up to the Bablylonian Exile. The earliest mentions of the "Biblical" Yahweh (from the Omride period) even associate Him with "His" Asherah, a goddess usually paired with El - so we might infer that while Yahweh was identified with El that early, He wasn't considered the only Deity.

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https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Kingdom-Archaeology-Northern-Monographs/dp/1589839102

Absolutely friend :)

Let me preface it by saying that when I woke up, I felt I needed to go back and revisit everything that I had "learned" and ensure that I really knew fact from fiction.

So I did a lot of research to be sure. Some may need more research to be convinced, others may need less.

What I found very influential was the book The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. You can find it here on amazon (get it used for only $5 shipped to your door!!)

I also found the Yale University course freely available on Youtube on The Hebrew Bible by Christine Hayes.

You can also find a course of The New Testament as taught by Dale B. Martin from Yale here.

I was certainly racked with confusion and mental anguish in struggling to reach a point where I felt comfortable with the conclusions that I drew, and a big help also came from the John Cedars youtube channel, the Theramin Trees youtube channel, and DarkMatter2525. The jwfairytale channel was also very helpful to go through the experience of the pain, because it was very very similar to mine.

What's this? A wild literature tip appears!

http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Unearthed-Archaeologys-Vision-Ancient/dp/0684869128

http://www.amazon.com/David-Solomon-Search-Western-Tradition/dp/0743243633/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Also, there is Bibeln och arkeologerna ('The bible and the archaeologists') by Hans Furuhagen but I don't think there is an English translation.

It's super effective!

the bible is not at all historically accurate, and archaeologists are increasingly starting to discover just how wrong the bible actually is. christians are, as usual, about 30 years behind on this matter. See the following

http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Unearthed-Archaeologys-Vision-Ancient/dp/0684869128

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed

Good luck pinpointing those places. But first, read a book called "The Bible Unearthed"

Not the bible exactly but pretty much anything and everything Elaine Pagels has published gives a lot of insight into the development of Christianity and in the process includes a metric fuckton on the development of the scriptures.

For the OT, I highly recommend Finkelstein and Silberman, The Bible Unearthed

Get this hardcover for under $7 shipped: http://www.amazon.com/The-Bible-Unearthed-Archaeologys-Ancient/dp/0684869128