Today’s Reads – Feb 8, 2014 – The Bible and Camel Bones and the War on the Poor and Middle Class
Ok so it’s been a while since I posted some new reads but here are a few that caught my eye today. The first one is from Juan Cole and discusses the writing of the Bible based on Archeological studies. I think it shows that while maybe inspired by God, the Bible was written by people who wrote it based on THEIR frames of reference!!
Camel Bones and Jerusalem: Archeology Shows Bible Written Late, Full of Errors
from Truthdig,com and Informed Comment
A new paper by Israeli archeologists Lidar Sapir-Hen and Erez Ben-Yosef, [pdf] posted at the University of Tel Aviv web site, is bad news for biblical literalists and far right wing Israeli nationalists who use the Bible for support.