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UCANSEE2: "I didn't know anyone doubted it."

jocon307: "so, who thought this wasn’t true?
I thought David & Solomon were historical figures, or I am just dumb?"

The usual term is "biblical minimalists": ideas presented by scholars the likes of Israel Finkelstein, Niels Peter Lemche and Thomas L. Thompson at the University of Copenhagen, Philip R. Davies, and Keith Whitelam.
These scholars took (or take) the position: nothing in the Bible can be believed unless it is independently attested to.
For New Testament "minamalists" you can look at John Dominick Crossan's "Jesus Seminar".

For the works of scholars opposed to "minimalism", I highly recommend the magazine, "Biblical Archaeology Review"

Thank you, that explains a lot. It also explains how some people can be soooooooo stupid as to deny that Jews lived in Israel in ancient times.

Oy, the lies the left tells themselves never cease to amaze. I guess the Roman records document Jews in Israel pretty well, I don’t think you’d even need to believe one word of the Bible to verify that.

Although it kind of is amazing that any of this stuff survives. I looked up Lon Chaney last night (because I was confused about Sr. & Jr.) and according to Wikipedia there are pretty large gaps in what is known in the life of Lon Chaney, Sr. and he was a fairly well known actor who lived from 1883-1930, that surprised me a bit.