Israeli scientists: Described in the Bible events occurred
Great events described in Scripture, never happened.
This was reported in the newspaper La Repubblica. To the conclusion made by Israeli archaeologists on the basis of many years of excavation.
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For example, they claim that the walls of Jericho did not destroy Israeli Ministers sounds of their pipes. The walls are simply not there, scientists say. The settlement of Canaan, the promised Land, the Israelites were not “big”, as the Bible says, and were not walled, raised to the heavens.
“Therefore, the heroism of the conquerors, who allegedly fought with the superior forces of the Canaanites, theological reconstruction is not based on facts, says archaeologist ze’ev Herzog, one of the most famous professors of the faculty of archaeology of tel Aviv University. — On the basis of all our findings, most of the scientists in the field of archaeology, biblical studies and the history of the Jewish people agree that the events described in the Bible, it is a legend, such as the legend of Romulus and Reme”.
Professor Herzog said: “These excavations have led to the fact that has become clear: the Israelites were never in Egypt, never wandered the desert, never conquered the land, then to pass it on to the Twelve tribes of Israel. None of the Central events of Jewish history is not confirmed by what we found. The outcome, for example, could concern only a few families, the history of which was later expanded and “nationalized” for theological reasons.”
This is truly a revolutionary point of view is hardly perceived by many people, he says. The most difficult for understanding became a historic document that the great Kingdom of David and Solomon, who, according to Scripture, the highest point of political, military and economic power of the people of Israel, a Kingdom that, according to the Book of Kings, stretched from the banks of the Euphrates to Gaza, is, according to Herzog, “historiographical, inconsistent with reality you build”.
“The greatness of the Kingdom of David and Solomon is an epic, not a historical one. Perhaps the latest proof of this is that we never found out what it was called, says Herzog. — Jerusalem all with a smile.
The excavations have yielded an impressive amount of material relating to the periods prior to and subsequent to the existence of the United Kingdom of David and Solomon. Nothing confirms the existence of the Kingdom, no clay shard. This does not mean that archaeologists were looking in the wrong place. They have received numerous reports that at the time of David and Solomon Jerusalem was a big settlement in which there was no Central temple or Royal Palace.
David and Solomon were the heads of tribal kingdoms that controlled small areas, David — Hebron, Solomon — in Jerusalem. Simultaneously, on the hills of Samaria, there was a separate state. Israel and Samaria were originally two separate, sometimes warring, kingdoms.”
