Friday, February 7, 2014

Archaeological News

Archaeologists Carbon-Date Camel Bones, Discover Major Discrepancy In Bible Story

The "discrepancy" is apparent only to non-theists or literalists, I suspect.  As Biblical archaeologist William Dever once said, and is quoted in the article,

"We want to make the Bible history. Many people think it has to be history or nothing. But there is no word for history in the Hebrew Bible. In other words, what did the biblical writers think they were doing? Writing objective history? No. That's a modern discipline. They were telling stories. They wanted you to know what these purported events mean."