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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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And when one looked through the same kind of literature,
the same kind of archival documents of the 1st millennium,
the same customs show up in these texts.
Taking all of these things together, they really prove absolutely nothing. There's just no firm evidence that can pin down the Patriarchs and Abraham into a particular period in the 2nd millennium.
[Narrator] In this way, traditional Biblical archaeology reached a dead end in terms of the Abraham story.
[Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University] So what we see is that the whole concept of roaming the land with the Bible in one hand and the space in the other in order to look for the Patriarchs, doesn't work. In a domino effect, one theory after the next collapsed.
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