Also heard the claim there’s no historical record of the biblical king David’s existence. At least not from any other neighbouring ruler anywhere near his alleged lifetime
Jews/Hebrews didn’t exist until well into the New Kingdom period. So the pyramid builders would have no experience with such a group. Its argued that hebrew descended from the hyksos, a group of semites who the Egyptians fought alot with ( the hyksos took over about half of Egypt for 300 years, 1800 - 1550 BC)
At its greatest extent (1500-1100bc) Egypt entirely subsumes Canaan and yet theres no word of Canaan being ruled over by Egyptians in the OT. Theres no evidence of a large migration of culturally egyptianized people settling in Canaan or genociding many indigenous “goyim” .
Theres plenty of evidence that the Hebrews of the bible were not patrilineally descended from a single patriarch circa 2000 bc. (See Y chromosomal haplogroups) So their biblical ethnogenesis is highly flawed. The people writing the OT were speculating about the origins of a group of unrelated tribes united civilly during a time when Canaanites/Hebrews could not read or write.
Its been hypothesized that a group of unrelated tribes were united under a powerful centralized military regime around 1000. Individuals like David and Saul might have been part of such a regime. But the regime kept no records. Neighboring nations like Babylon and Assyria didn’t record any such king. Contrary to the bible, historians believe Israel/Judah was a really rinky-dink country that other major powers in the area didn’t often mention in their records.
The “history” of the bible is highly unreliable and based on oral traditions about a time when the people in question had no writing. They didn’t exist when they say they existed. They didn’t travel where they said they travelled. They don’t have recollection of an Egyptian empire ruling them just a few centuries earlier. They weren’t monotheists until a very late period (700-400bc or later - see Elephantine Island ). We know the bible was revised over and over to maintain political correctness as the religion and politics evolved.
Why am I saying all this stuff? Because you can’t believe the bible, not even the non-supernatural stuff. All that persecution jazz is just evidence of a lack of historical perspective on the part of the bible authors.
The priests argued that the Hebrews/jews were being attacked by foreigners because they weren’t worshipping Yahweh properly. But it was just because they had alot of aggressive neighbors. That happened to everybody. The exageration of jewish persecution in the bible is ridiculous. The Bablyonian exile was likely just a few thousand political elites who the Babylonians had the curtesy not to execute
Modern jews are not heavily descended from these early hebrews. They are highly admixed with other groups in the middle east and europe. But they do a similar thing. Rabbis promote an “evil goyim” narrative so that their diaspora communities will not “drop out” of judaism and assimilate. Its a gimmick to control their congregants. Diaspora jews have done the majority of the exploitation in the relationship with their host countries. This is why the jobs they take are different from everybody else’s. Slavery and usury are good examples. The arenda system is another. They are not objective chroniclers of their own history.
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Jews/Hebrews didn’t exist until well into the New Kingdom period. So the pyramid builders would have no experience with such a group. Its argued that hebrew descended from the hyksos, a group of semites who the Egyptians fought alot with ( the hyksos took over about half of Egypt for 300 years, 1800 - 1550 BC)
At its greatest extent (1500-1100bc) Egypt entirely subsumes Canaan and yet theres no word of Canaan being ruled over by Egyptians in the OT. Theres no evidence of a large migration of culturally egyptianized people settling in Canaan or genociding many indigenous “goyim” .
Theres plenty of evidence that the Hebrews of the bible were not patrilineally descended from a single patriarch circa 2000 bc. (See Y chromosomal haplogroups) So their biblical ethnogenesis is highly flawed. The people writing the OT were speculating about the origins of a group of unrelated tribes united civilly during a time when Canaanites/Hebrews could not read or write.
Its been hypothesized that a group of unrelated tribes were united under a powerful centralized military regime around 1000. Individuals like David and Saul might have been part of such a regime. But the regime kept no records. Neighboring nations like Babylon and Assyria didn’t record any such king. Contrary to the bible, historians believe Israel/Judah was a really rinky-dink country that other major powers in the area didn’t often mention in their records.
The “history” of the bible is highly unreliable and based on oral traditions about a time when the people in question had no writing. They didn’t exist when they say they existed. They didn’t travel where they said they travelled. They don’t have recollection of an Egyptian empire ruling them just a few centuries earlier. They weren’t monotheists until a very late period (700-400bc or later - see Elephantine Island ). We know the bible was revised over and over to maintain political correctness as the religion and politics evolved.
Why am I saying all this stuff? Because you can’t believe the bible, not even the non-supernatural stuff. All that persecution jazz is just evidence of a lack of historical perspective on the part of the bible authors.
The priests argued that the Hebrews/jews were being attacked by foreigners because they weren’t worshipping Yahweh properly. But it was just because they had alot of aggressive neighbors. That happened to everybody. The exageration of jewish persecution in the bible is ridiculous. The Bablyonian exile was likely just a few thousand political elites who the Babylonians had the curtesy not to execute
Modern jews are not heavily descended from these early hebrews. They are highly admixed with other groups in the middle east and europe. But they do a similar thing. Rabbis promote an “evil goyim” narrative so that their diaspora communities will not “drop out” of judaism and assimilate. Its a gimmick to control their congregants. Diaspora jews have done the majority of the exploitation in the relationship with their host countries. This is why the jobs they take are different from everybody else’s. Slavery and usury are good examples. The arenda system is another. They are not objective chroniclers of their own history.