There are 23,000 Assyrian tablets, cylinders and prisms that have been translated. Evey single one of them is in the British museum. They date from 702 BC. They chronicle the 23 years siege and submission of the northern kingdom of Israel, the final "deportation" of Israelites to other communities, including the Medians. They also chronicle the Israelites left in their land to work the land there for tribute to the Assyrian king. They record the invasion of Nebopolassar and the Medians of Ninevah and the fall of th Assyrian empire. There are letters to the king describing trouble collecting tribute that mention the Israelites. There are messages from Assyrian military outposts during and after the defeat of Assyria. There are accounting and administration tablets, chronicles of conquered peoples and where they were posted, including the Israelites. There are lists of peoples and their movements and where they were placed, explanations of policies affecting conquered peoples, including the Israelites, description of tactics used to suborn those peoples. If you ignore or are ignorant of those writings, you have a serious problem. Call the British museum. Ask them about the Assyrian records on file and the writings in various forms there. Don't believe me. Check for yourself, then get back to me.
I don't have to check anything since you have not stated anything that is not already known.
None of those tablets say anything about the Israelites escaping from Assyria or uniting in a massive revolt against Assyria and helping their enemies fight against them.
All those tablets tell is that the Israelites were there (which we knew) and about how the Assyrians administered their empire (which we knew).
So, your appeal to the Assyrian tablets as revealing some great 'unknown truth' is simply smoke and mirrors.
What you have to produce is evidence that the Israelites escaped from Assyria as a united 10 tribe nation and went to Western Europe and then had mass amnesia and forgot their Hebrew heritage and became the founders of the Western nations.
So, once again, if you cannot produce such evidence (not conjecture), your entire theory is built on a foundation of sand.
I don't have to check anything since you have not stated anything that is not already known. None of those tablets say anything about the Israelites escaping from Assyria or uniting in a massive revolt against Assyria and helping their enemies fight against them. All those tablets tell is that the Israelites were there (which we knew) and about how the Assyrians administered their empire (which we knew). So, your appeal to the Assyrian tablets as revealing some great 'unknown truth' is simply smoke and mirrors. What you have to produce is evidence that the Israelites escaped from Assyria as a united 10 tribe nation and went to Western Europe and then had mass amnesia and forgot their Hebrew heritage and became the founders of the Western nations. So, once again, if you cannot produce such evidence (not conjecture), your entire theory is built on a foundation of sand. Granted, there is no tablet that says, "The great numbers of Israelites gathered together and went to Europe." Apparently, this kind of statement is what you require.
However, there are many that talk about people that one recognizes as Israelite. I've already given you a sample of the things reported.
You didn't know how the Assyrians administered their empire. You though 27,000 deported were all the Israelites that were left in that area.
You didn't even know about the Assyrian records existed before I told you, because the histories you relied upon were written by a person who either didn't know of them or entirely ignored them.
I think I have come as close to proof with the available evidence as one can when uncovering what people did three thousand years ago.
You, on the other hand, have not presented any writing, either biblical, historical or recorded by ancient writers during the period, several of which wrote regularly about the people of the Bible, that would indicate migrations of the northern kingdom returned from Assyria and merged with the remnants of the southern kingdom residing in Palestine.
At that time, it is without a doubt such writers would consider Hosea and Ezekiel to have been fulfilled, or, at least the event would have been close enough to prophecies to record it.
I have writings, and a lot of them, at my disposal. If you would like some references to books written from the translated tablets, cylinders and prisms, I'll be happy to provide.
