Posted on 07/22/2008 2:37:05 AM PDT by Man50D
Abraham didn't exist? The Exodus didn't happen?
The Bible's Buried Secrets, a new PBS documentary, is likely to cause a furor.
"It challenges the Bible's stories if you want to read them literally, and that will disturb many people," says archaeologist William Dever, who specializes in Israel's history. "But it explains how and why these stories ever came to be told in the first place, and how and why they were written down."
The Nova program will premiere Nov. 18. PBS presented a clip and a panel discussion at the summer tour of the Television Critics Association.
The program says the Bible was written in the sixth century BC and that hundreds of authors contributed.
"At least the first five books of the Bible come together during the Babylonian exile," says producer Gary Glassman.
The program challenges long-held beliefs. Abraham, Sarah and their offspring probably didn't exist, says Carol Meyers, a religion professor at Duke University.
"These stories are unlikely to represent real historical events, but rather there's some kernel of ancient experience in there which has survived and which helps give identity to the people at the time the Bible finally took shape centuries and centuries later," Meyers says.
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Abraham and Sarah are more real than ethics and honesty
at PBS.
But then if Abraham was gay, or a dictator, then
PBS would be on its knees before him.
The skills to build thew temple in Israel (Herod's stones for example) had to come from somewhere, so no doubt their were many stone masons among them. Also farmers, and every other type of craftsmen
Great to see PBS leaning on scholarship with its feet firmly planted in the 1800’s.
Oh, if Carol says it, that settles it.
Is this the same Duke University whose professors were ready to lynch 3 Lacrosse Players three years ago?
Not surprised in the least.
It is also possible that the producer of this film screws his dog each day, and the little bitch begs for more.
It’s possible.
No one has proven otherwise.
We’ll leave it up to you to reach a conclusion.
I have one of the books, but haven't looked at it in awhile and am too lazy to do so now. But from (flawed) memory;
Textual analysis indicates 3 or 4 principal sources for the first 5 books of the old Testament.
In stories about events which supposedly occurred in the 10th or 11th centuries B.C. there are references to customs and practices which characterized the 6th century and were unknown to the earlier time.
There are no references in Egyptian records to the events described in the Bible.
That's all I can remember but it's pretty interesting stuff. Worth looking at.
The pyramids were built around 2600 B.C. Herod flourished 2500 years later.
Lies brought to you via television sponsored by Satan.
Just more of the liberal mo - attack what threatens your warped worldview. Bad old Christianity is anti-homosexual, pro-life and moral. Certainly can't stand that.
The Bible is The Word Of God. If anyone disagrees with God, who is always right, he is automatically wrong. That’s simple arithmetic.
My guess is the part about Abraham not existing will be minimized, though the rest, beginning with Sara won’t... The reason? Well, Abraham was the “father” of Judaism, Christianity, and islam... And while PBS will have no problem with claiming that the first two are based on lies and stories, we must remember that this IS a leftist front group, and as such, is inherently cowardly. And in this case, for good reason. Because though PBS and their ilk will talk about Christian “NAZIs” and such, they do know that insulting muslims regarding their faith WILL get them killed.
Mark
A few years ago, National Geographic did a lengthy illustrated piece on the construction of Egypt’s pyramids. There was no mention of Jews or Hebrews or Exodus. I let my subscription lapse, tossed out my mountains of back issues, and that was that.
Well, then answer me this smart guys: if it didn’t happen, then just what did Indiana Jones rescue in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? Huh?? Don’t got an answer, do ya!
OK, break it up. Move along. Nothing to see here. It’s the same old story we’ve been being told for as long as the Bible has been considered by the Lord’s people to the divinely inspired word of God. These people have no concept of faith. They don’t believe any farther than they can see on a clear.
A woman’s right to choose and AGW are falsities.
There, I just dismissed two Liberal religious beliefs.
Day? ;-)
He was born in a stable.
Cordially,
Hmmmm... It’s the brain fade thing again! My brain just outpaces my fingers. Thanks for the assist.
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