The Bible's Buried Secrets

Scripture

Archeology

Monotheism

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Nile, Southern Egypt,

Merneptah Stele 1208 BC Triumph steelah

Israel first mentioned

Abraham, Gen. 12:1-2

Moses, Exodus 34:27

Documentary Hypothesis

When was the Bible written

Ancient Hebrew Alphabet

Tel Said 1000BC

oldest passage Exodus 15:4, Song of the Sea

hazor, 1250 BC

Israelite houses, (originally Canananites)

identity: inventing stories in destroying the Canaanites

Name of God: YHWH

Ancient Egypt: Karnak

Shazu (Midian, Moses):YHW

canaantes escaped from egypt, not Israelites 47:30

polytheistic

victory tel dan stele: Damascus, "house of David", 10th BC

J (10th bc)

Carbon Dating

Solomon's Gates

Shishak Campaign, 925 bc

Temple Ain Dara

Yahweh and Ashera

Assyria

D

Babylonia

destruction of Jerusalem

without, temple, king, land

P (Torah)

circumcision Gen 17

Foundation of Judaism, Monotheism

dead sea scrolls 200 bc

earliest reference, 7th century, numbers 6:24-26

Persia, Ezra