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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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So the problem is not in this theory or that theory, the problem is in the way of thinking, in the concept, the idea of all traditional Biblical archaeology does not work, is wrong. And I think that now we have to go back to the text, to the Book of Genesis, in order to understand the reality of the period of the Patriarchs on the background of the period of the writing.
[Narrator] Nevertheless, the Old Testament can still be used by historians. [?]
It suffices to know how to identify the clues contained in the book, [?]
the names of places or people, typical landscapes.
In the book of Genesis, reference is made to the Philistines,
a people who came to Canaan and who made life difficult for the Israelites. [?]
What do we know of the Philistines?
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