It’s very sad to find out the conspiracy created by unscrupulous humans that knowing these facts they’re still duping the gullible about biblical, archaeological veracity. The truth is for everyone to see, archaeology doesn’t prove the truthfulness of the biblical record, I did my research, if you want to know the real truth, do yours.
Historicity of the Old Testament
The historicity of the Old Testament has been a matter of debate, particularly since the 19th century when Julius Wellhausen using source criticism claimed to have isolated four strands of tradition behind the Pentateuch (JEDP)(see the documentary hypothesis). The Wellhausen School assigned dates for these strands (and their later editing) from the 10th–5th centuries BC. Because the composition of the Pentateuch according to Wellhausen was so much later than the events it described, some who accept Wellhausen’s documentary hypothesis tend to regard the narratives of the Pentateuch as largely fictional, while others see the stories as part of a long oral tradition. Some conservative biblical scholarship, on the other hand, generally rejected Wellhausen’s Documenatary Hypothesis and believes more in the Old Testament: Timeline.
Current debate concerning the historicity of the Old Testament can be divided into several camps. One group has been labeled “biblical minimalists” by its critics. Minimalists (e.g., Philip Davies, Thompson, Seters) see very little reliable history in any of the Old Testament. Conservative Old Testament scholars, “biblical maximalists”, generally accept the historicity of most Old Testament narratives (save the accounts in Gen 1–11) on confessional grounds, and Fundamentalist Christian Egyptologists (e.g., Kenneth Kitchen) argue that such a belief is not incompatible with the external evidence. While other scholars (e.g., William Dever) are somewhere in between: they see clear signs of evidence for the monarchy and much of Israel’s later history, though they doubt the Exodus and Conquest. The vast majority of scholars at American universities are somewhere between biblical minimalism and maximalism; there are still many maximalists at conservative/evangelical seminaries, while there are very few biblical minimalists at any American universities. Interestingly, both Kitchen and archaeologist Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University are probably the only scholars from the maximalist and minimalist camps who are sufficiently trained to address these questions with the necessary sophistication—both are giants in their fields—and both come to different conclusions.
Contemporary Israeli archaeologists have now rejected much of the Deuteronomistic history of the Old Testament. Notably, Finkelstein and Neal Asher Silberman have written popular books detailing the now widespread consensus that many of the most well known Biblical stories are incompatible with the archaeology of the region. Among the Biblical events now adjudged to be largely, if not completely ahistorical include the patriarchal histories, the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt, the Exodus, the sojourn of the Israelites in the Sinai Peninsula, the conquest of Cannan by Joshua and a united kingdom under David and Solomon. The very existence of David and Solomon is a matter of debate but the archaeology of the region shows that Judea, during the alleged time of David and Solomon, was little more than a small local chiefdom in the southern highlands which never controlled the much richer and more populated regions of the north.
You can start in these links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis
This link can take you to the heathen origins of the the biblical YHWH and El. Which proves that the Jews were not “especially chosen” but they adquired their deities from more pagan ancient civilizations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw_%28god%29
