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2009-08-26Jerusalem unearthed – archaeology and Jerusalem 1000 to 700 b.c.e.The biblical legend:1000 to 700 b.c.e. covers the biblical time from the reign of Solomon to the fall of Jerusalem’s neighbouring northern kingdom of Samaria. According to the narrative of 1 and 2 Kings Jerusalem in the...

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Where did the Bible’s Jews come from? 2012-02-16 by Neil GodfreyThis post is based primarily on a few pages in The Mythic Past by Thomas L. Thompson. It is slightly supplemented by fewer notes from a different but complementary discussion on the biblical meanings of “the people of God” in The I...

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2010-09-08More nonsense from biblical archaeologists: turning a Taliban text into a proclamation of human rights and dignity!by Neil Godfrey Two archaeologists, one Israeli (Israel Finkelstein) and one American (Neil Asher Silberman), have bizarrely managed to repackage a Taliban-like an...

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The Slave Trade & Black GenocideDeath Toll: 5,000,000 – 17,000,000 in the Slave Trade; Millions Dead from Colonialism Strange Fruit By Billie HolidaySouthern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hangi...

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Sedur (Jewish prayer book).The exact prayer is this:"Blessed are you, Hashem, King of the Universe, for not having made me a Gentile Dog.""Blessed are you, Hashem, King of the Universe, for not having made me a slave."Blessed are you, Hashem, King of the Universe, for not hav...

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Atheist Richard Dawkins considers the war over Canaan to be one of the most morally atrocious aspects of the OT.[1] In his book The God Delusion, he writes,The Bible story of Joshua’s destruction of Jericho, and the invasion of the Promised Land in general, is morally indistinguishable from Hitl...

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The Tel Dan Stela and the Kings of Aram and IsraelEXCERPT A people known as the Arameans lived in the regions of Syria and Mesopotamia in antiquity. They were a large group of linguistically related peoples who spoke dialects of a West Semitic language known as Aramaic. Although not politically uni...

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The Expulsion of the HyksosTel Habuwa excavations reveal the conquest of Tjaru by Ahmose I Noah Wiener • 02/11/2015This Bible History Daily feature was originally published in March 2013. It has been updated.—Ed. “After the conclusion of the treaty they left with their families and chatt...

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The Exodus & the Expulsion of the Hyksos - Archaeology of the Bible - Peter MyersYou are at http://mailstar.net/archaeology-bible.html.Current Egyptology and Archaeology deny that there was an Exodus. Instead, they say that this is a confused memory of the Expulsion of the Hyksos from Egy...

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Prof. Ze’ev Herzog of the Archaeology Faculty at the University of Tel AvivDeconstructing the walls of JerichoBy Ze'ev HerzogFollowing 70 years of intensive excavations in the Land of Israel, archaeologists have found out: The patriarchs' acts are legendary, the Israelites did not sojourn i...

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The Exodus: Does archaeology have a say?The Exodus is so fundamental to us and our Jewish sources that it is embarrassing that there is no evidence outside of the Bible to support it. 3,300 year old clay coffin found in Jezreel Valley. (photo credit:Israel Antiquities Authority)Share on Facebook...

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Hebrew language West Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors, although the language was not referred to by the name Hebrew in the Tanakh.[note 2] The earliest examples of written Paleo-He...

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Oct 11 2015 : The Times of India (Chennai) Mother's Missionaries won't budge, decide to discontinue adoptionsHimanshi Dhawan New Delhi The Missionaries of Charity on Saturday made it official that it was discontinuing adoption work in India, as it would be “difficult“ to comply with all...

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http://www.penn.museum/sites/Canaan/Egypt.html EGYPT IN CANAAN For more than 300 years during the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, Egypt ruled Canaan. Deities, arts and technology were intermingled between the two cultures. stele The Egyptian culture developed alongside Cannan and A...

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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/asktheexpert/ask_churchbuildings.htmlASK | posted 11/12/2008 02:16PM 1 of 1 ADVERTISEMENTThe New Testament speaks of a l...

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The Discovery of an Unknown Dead Sea Scroll: The Original Text of Deuteronomy 27? James Hamilton Charlesworth ’62 One reason I went in 1958 to Ohio Wesleyan University from southeast Florida was because my mother’s brother, Les Hamilton, graduated from there and she dreamed of following his foo...

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“When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians.” (Genesis 46:33-34 NAU) Joseph...

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Inerrancy, apocalypse, castration: Bible scholar says not to take scripture literallyJennifer Grace Bird, 43, teaches Bible classes at the University of Portland and Portland Community College. She has a Ph.D in New Testament and Early Christianity from Vanderbilt University. (Melissa Bin...

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http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/temple-at-jerusalem/searching-for-the-temple-of-king-solomon/HowBiblical Archaeology Society Staff • 10/10/2014T...

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This man spent an entire year taking the Bible literally. Here's what happened What would it be like to take every commandment in the Bible literally?Almost 10 years ago, A.J. Jacobs, an author and editor of Esquire magazine, did just that, which he chronicled in his book “The Year of Living Biblic...

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PSYCHOLOGY OF PROPHETISMA Secular Look at the Bible KOENRAAD ELST Voice of India, New Delhi

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New Testament Narrative as Old Testament MidrashRobert M. Price A. IntroductionThe line is thin between extrapolating new meanings from ancient scriptures (borrowing the authority of the old) and actually composing new scripture (or quasi-scripture) by extrapolating from the old. By this p...

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Jesus Myth - The Case Against Historical Christ By - January 03, 2007The majority of people in the world today assume or believe that Jesus Christ was at the very least a real person. Perhaps he wasn't really "the Messiah", perhaps he was not "The Son of God", and perhaps he di...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews The Hebrew word for Jew, יְהוּדִי ISO 259-3 Yhudi, is pronounced [jehuˈdi], with the stress on the final syllable, in Israeli Hebrew, in its basic form.[54] The Ladino name is ג׳ודיו, Djudio (sg.); ג׳ודיוס, Djudios (pl.); Yiddish: ייִד Y...

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8 Tips for Dating Early Christian TextsBefore I say anything else, I want to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to the 7,000+ people who visited the blog last week to read the Spring 2015 Meeting reports. Who knew so many people could get excited about Paul? This new post comes from a place of frustration...

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Milestones in the Quest for the Historical JesusRobert W. Funk From The Fourth Rhttp://www.westarinstitute.org/resources/the-fourth-r/milestones-in-the-quest-for-the-historical-jesus/Volume 14-4 July–August 2001The quest for the historical Jesus has been underway for more th...

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When Was Acts Written? Not in the First Century.Scholars Study Book of Acts as Second-Century Myth of Christian Origins Press Release November 1, 2013Polebridge Press recently released the final report of a decade-long study on the biblical book of Acts carried out by the Acts Seminar, a collabo...

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