from: Israel Finkelstein / Neil A. Silberman:
The Bible unearthed. Archeology's New Vision of Ancient
Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts; The Free
Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2001;
German edition has got the title "No trombones before
Jericho" (orig. German: "Keine Posaunen vor Jericho"):
edition C.H.Beck oHG, Munich 2002;
Here in this analysis is used the
German version "Keine Posaunen vor Jericho" of DTV,
Munich 2004, second edition of 2005. All page
indications refer to the German version. I hope the page
numbers are not very different.
Legends in the book of Judges
about the cults and ideas in the northern Reich and in the
southern Reich
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of Assyria, Babylonia and Elam of about 1,050
b.C. Breakthrough to Mediterranean is coming
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The book of Judges with it's events about the
alleged kings Saul, David, and Solomon consists of
reminders to local fights and is describing heroes in form
of epic poems, folktales (p.137) and myths (p.151).
According to the book of Judges king David and Solomon are
said having ruled from 1005 to 930 B.C. approximately
(p.145). Historicaly there cannot be proved anything.
Eventually hero stories of former times are mixed within
(p.137). But the book of Richter is presenting excellent
geographical descriptions of the landscape which has
hardly changed until today (p.151).
[Geographic precisino shall give the impression that also
the historic connectsions could be true].
The stories of the book of Judges shall serve as a
"lesson" to the population of Judah in 7th century B.C.
after the ruin of the North Reich Israel (p.137-138), and
the situations and stories can be interpreted directly to
situation in 7th century B.C. (p.138).
The book of Judges states an
alleged cult between "sin" and rescue
OT claims:
-- Israeli population lived in a repeated rhythm of sin,
punishment by god and salvage (book of Judges 2,11-19)
-- by the installation of kingdoms this repeated rhythm of
"sin", punishment and salvage is said having been broken
(book of Judges, 21,25)
-- the relation between Israelites and God always is said
having been in danger, this interpretation is arbitrarily
made by the authors
-- God is said having done the Israelites into the hands
of their enemies because of disloyalty, so the Israelites
will beg for help with God, and then the Israelites are
said having regeretted and God is said having saved the
Israelites resp. having helped to victories over their
enemies
-- this is a religious cycle with alliance - promise -
disloyalty - regret - salvation which is always repeated
-- it seems that the situation of the kingdom of Judah was
similar in the 7th century so there were many hopes for a
salvation (p.137).
OT: Alleged destruction of
all other faith groups as a condition for a salvation
[and this is a total religious racism].
OT claims:
-- all other faith groups in the southern half of the
alleged tribal territories shall have been destroyed
fulfilling the will of God (p.138) resp. in the southern
part all Canaanetes are said having been destroyed (p.168)
-- the alleged trials for an ethnic cleansing and mass
murder in the northern part are said having failed all,
and there shall have existed Canaanete enclaves (book of
Judges, 1,21; 1,27-35) (p.138)
-- by this reason - because the other faith groups were
not totally destroyed in the northern half - is said that
the split North Reich of Israel had been destroyed later,
and teh alleged later South Reich Judah is said having
rated as the "better" Reich (p.138)
-- it's stated that in the northern part the Canaanetes
have mixed with the Jewish tribes, and this shall be a sin
which leads to the later foreign occupation of the
northern part (p.168)
-- Bible describes that the South Reich Judah is stronger
whereas the North Reich is stronger in fact (p.169).
OT: The faked king Saul
OT claims:
-- from an alleged tribe named Benjamin has come an
alleged first ruling king Saul (p.140)
-- the alleged king Saul was the king of the alleged North
Reich, and after a military defeat against the Philistines
he is said having committed suicide (p.168)
-- Saul and his son Jonathan are said having been killed
in the Philistine wars (p.151)
-- the Philistines are said having won the battle of Eben
Ezer and are said having robbed the Ark of the Covenant
(p.151)
-- then the northern tribes are said having proclaimed
David (king of South Reich Judah) for the king of whole
Israel (p.168).
OT: The faked king David -
the faked culture of David
OT claims:
-- David is said having occupied Jerusalem in a
hit-and-run style and is said having installed an own
regency in this way (p.260)
-- then king David is said having made an alliance with
God, and David is said having banned all foreign gods and
is said having ordered the daily cult (p.138)
-- king David is said having defined Jerusalem as the
single capital of the Jews (p.138)
-- kind Gadiv is said having defined a definite place for
the Ark of the Covenant (p.138-139)
-- king David is said having ordered the tempel in
Jerusalem so there was adorated only one single god
(p.139)
-- David temple is said having been the key for the
salvation of Israel and of the destruction of all other
faith groups, and is said having benn the "key" for the
stop of the negative events for Israel and for growing
wealth (p.139)
-- the alleged king's palace in Jerusalem is said having
been a mental hot spot
-- David, the son of Isai, is said having been anointed as
the king of all tribes of Israel and by this the promise
of God which was given to Abraham is said having been
fulfilled (p.140)
-- David is said having been a fair-minded king and is
said having represented a myth figure in the history of
Israel (p.140).
King David is said having completed the "work" of ethnic
cleansing and genocide which was begun under Joshua:
-- king David is said having occupied the rest of the land
-- king David is said having amplifyed the Reich to the
frontier lines of Abraham [according to 1st book Moses,
chapter 15, phrase 18: Nile and Euphrates as border lines]
-- king David is said having founded a famous Reich
(p.161).
[And with this conquest and occupation and ethnic
cleansing is connected "Star of David", and that's why
Zionism is never giving up it's conquests against the
Arabs, and that's why all Arab countries never will accept
a "Jewish State" with the "Star of David" in it's flag.
Also stupid journalists should see this connection].
This invented king David is described and gloryfied in
many songs and stories.
OT claims:
-- king David is said having occupied Jerusalem and a big
Reich
-- king David is said having hit Goliath with one single
stone with a slingshot and killed him in this way
-- king David is said having reached to the court of the
king playing harp in a skillfull way
-- king David is said having been a rebel and a pirate
-- king David is said having persecuted Bathseba in a
lustful way (p.140)
-- king David is said having won many battles against the
Philistine towns (p.151).
OT: the faked cult of Solomon
OT claims:
-- king Solomon is said having ruled from the Egypt
frontier down to the Euphrates (p.182)
-- David's son Solomon is said having treated the northern
tribes like colonized subjects, with high tax and
compulsory service (p.168)
-- king Solomon is said (1st book of Kings 11,4-8) having
seduced to "idolatry" by a foreign woman, to a cult for
the goddess of Sidon, Astarte, and for the cult of the
dreadful god of the Ammonites, Milkom (p.182), and king
Solomon is said having accepted these cults then: the
cults for god Milkom of the Ammonites, for the god Kamos
of the Moabites (p.262), and for the goddess Astarte of
the Sidonites (1st book of Kings, 11,5; 2nd book of Kings,
23,13) (p.263)
-- Solomon is said having sunk in "sin", according to 1st
book of Kings 2,1-89 he is said having brought a harem of
foreign women to Jerusalem (p.162)
-- and then (according to 1st book of Kings, 11,11-13) God
is said having punished king Solomon with the split of the
"Reich of Israel" (p.182).
Depsite of all David's son Solomon is said having been the
king with the maximum of wisdom, and he is said having
been a great building owner, and he is said having been
able deciding sharp witted verdicts, and he is said having
been very rich, and he is said having constructed the
tempel of Jerusalem (p.140).
The readers of the Bible is presented a "Golden Age" of
Israel under David and Solomon, but this is only a fake.
The scholars partly believe in this yet today, and
archeologic findings are classified to David Solomon story
despite of all contradictions,without calling the story
well into question (p.140).
The claims of the old scholars according
to the Bible
-- Israeli settlements are said having
grown under the kings of Saul, David, and Solomon
-- there is said that there were installed
many centralized forms of organization
-- there is said that the danger by
Philistine coastal towns has driven the development to an
Israelite monarchy (p.141).
"Allocations"
with much fantasy
-- the geological layers with the
destructed Canaanite towns are allocated to the conquest
under David (p.141)
-- the city gates and findings of the
palace are generally allocated to the construction activity
under an alleged king named Solomon (p.141).
In this way was performed archeology for
centuries.
