A fair question. First, there is archaeological evidence as well as external textual evidence to support a number of the elements of the story -- the existence of an Israelite kingdom in that area at the time of David, for example.
Second, Judaism as a religion is not as heavily dependent upon miracle accounts as is Christianity
Hi trad, if you read through a few of my subsequent posts, you'll see that I went into the subject in further depth. If I still haven't answered your question, I'll take another go at it.
46,404 posted on 04/07/2003 11:02:59 AM PDT by malakhi
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