Reply To: Archeology and the Torah

Let’s go further.

The Bible Critics claim that the Torah was made up.

Lets take the King Josiah theory (one of the four basic “theories, four because they all have various huge probelms)

Virtually all Historical records written by Kings at the time contain virtually no mentions of National tragedies or defeats let alone failings of rulers.

Yet curiosly TaNach alone again and again emphasizes the failings of the Jewish people and it’s leaders.

Why?

Why would a Nation set about writing and enshrining a National history of failings? Why was it this Nation that did it?

Another big problem is that theis particular theory rests on the Jeiwsh Nation being small at the time and larly illitterate in order for such a hoax to be pulled off, however increasingly Archeological evidence points to the fact this was not the case.

Case in point is Omri who lived around two hundred years before Yoshiau and is given scant attention in Melachim other then a few pesukim. Yet archeological points to the fact that the House of Omri did not just exist but was quite powerful.