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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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similar to those that could then be seen in the Holy [?] Land. According to them, the Biblical story described a lifestyle that was typical of the region. [Jacques Briend, Catholic University of Paris] When scholars sought a date for the Biblical Patriarchs, they basically relied on a certain number of elements contained in the text that took us back to around 1,800 B.C. This obviously means that they relied only on Biblical facts [?], and not on facts that were external to the Bible. Even today, many people imagine that Abraham lived around 1,800 B.C.
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