The Bible's Buried Secrets

Very interesting prog - iPlayer link below - archeologists analyse evidence of "claimed" Biblical events.

In prog 1 there is no evidence at all to suggest that David ever had a kingdom based in Jerusalem !

All "supposed" evidence is at least a Century out date-wise (so nothing whatever to do with David), and (according to the programme) was "discovered" by archeologists who had a Bible in one hand and a trowel in the other (in other words decided what they wanted to find - then went out and found it !)

Could be a fascinating series.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zp3j3/B...Davids_Empire_Exist/

He most certainly did have a Kingdom and I'm a descendant.

The most informative book on the 'bible' is by the Aussie Dead Sea Scrolls expert Barbara Thiering.

She decoded the Scrolls and many of (my relative) Jesus and the Bible's 'miracles' have an easy explanation.

For instance- a Virgin was a girl who hadn't yet had a baby..not a virgin as we think. therefore Mary hadn't had a child and Jesus (my relative) was her first.

Walking on water was an old Rabbi ritual..they built a stage just under the water out about 20 feet and the rabbi would walk out and do his rituals...but Jesus (my relative) being an unordained rabbi outraged everyone by walking 'on water' and doing the rituals...

there's always a basis of truth in everything.

You couldn't invent a character like Jesus if you tried.

needless to say..he was the first Socialist !

veritas wrote:
He most certainly did have a Kingdom and I'm a descendant.

You couldn't invent a character like Jesus if you tried.

The prog agreed that David existed - but in an area much closer to the Lebanon border - certainly NOT Jerusalem (and his "kingdom" was so small that no evidence of its existance remains)!

He also lived around 100 years BEFORE the buildings etc uncovered and attributed to him (these were built mainly by someone else - forgotten his name now, was it Omni? - who gets a one word mention in the Bible).

No one is suggesting that Jesus was invented.

Final part of this 2-parter tonight .... been absolutely fascinating.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888421

It only seems the other day that the book 'The holy blood and the holy grail' changed many people's ideas of biblical history.
Due to lack of real evidence no doubt in a hundred years time a different view will prevail.
Just have to wait for Veritas to invent a time machine

Solihull Exile wrote:
It only seems the other day that the book 'The holy blood and the holy grail' changed many people's ideas of biblical history.
Due to lack of real evidence no doubt in a hundred years time a different view will prevail.
Just have to wait for Veritas to invent a time machine

what makes you think I don't have one already?