So far, we've learned that much of the Biblical "history" of the "Jews" is fiction; the supposed conquest of the area of Canaan didn't take place. The Jews were Canaanite sheep herders who peacefully built small villages next to their Canaanite neighbors.
But who were the Jews? Here's the answer to that: "....today's Jews and Palestinians ... populations fit very closely together and that a majority of Arabs and Jews in Israel and the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza, have common ancestors who lived in the region as much as 8000 years ago."
Common Ancestors!!
Not a race set apart, conceived in the mind of their God who ordained them to conquer and occupy a "Promised Land!"
In fact, is the God of the Bible even the god that the early Jews worshipped? Likely not, is the answer. "...the word Israel means 'fighter for El' and El was a Canaanite god. ... the commonest religious objects found in excavations throughout Israel are small female figures. So it seems the Israelites were worshiping God, Yahweh and Mrs. God, Asherah. (emphasis added by GB) A temple from the eighth century B.C.E. .... suggest(s) that gods, not a god, were being worshipped. Since the Bible tells us that Judah was remaining faithful to the true religion, maybe the true religion at that time wasn't the one we know from the Bible."
Now, this is very interesting. We know that the Hebrew Bible - what the Christians call the Old Testament - was written within the several centuries prior to the Current Era, the stories they incorporated, and the myths they canonized, were centuries or millennia old by the time they wrote them down. Just how much liberty did the numerous writers and editors take in incorporating these tales into their written manuscript? Considering the multitudinous contradicting stories in the O.T. (you can Google 'Bible Contradictions' to see a whole sheaf of them; I won't try to enumerate them here), it is evident that the writers had multiple and conflicting stories they had heard and that had been passed along for generations.
How they canonized the myths, selected competing tales, and created "The God" that all should follow is the gist of numerous books I have on my shelf. Yes, I say "created" the God - for that is but fiction derived from the mind of ancient man.
This current book is substantiating all of that with archaeological evidence.
So, even though the Jewish Bible lies, the rocks don't lie. And therein resides the truth about the Judeo-Christian religion.
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