Extra-biblical sources that were ancient enemies confirms the historical fact of ancient Israel

Submitted by Abu Nudnik (Canada), Jul 5, 2011 at 18:05

The Assyrian Chronicles confirm the siege of Jerusalem, ca, 722 BC. Titus's Arch in Rome testifies to the destruction of the Second Temple. There are numerous extra-biblical sources... anti-Israeli propaganda requires time machines to make their specious stories true, the most ridiculous ones being the origin of the "Palestinian People" as in Arafat's fatuous comment "We were here even before the prophet Ibrahim." It would be a neat trick to pre-date one's own ancestor and obviously nothing of the kind happened.

According to Islamists, the Koran has the true story and the Bible is a copy of it, substituting Isaac for Ishmael as the subject of the story ordering Abraham to sacrifice his son. Again, it's time machine territory. One would have to go backward in time from Mohamed's day to re-write not only the Hebrew Bible but its translations into Greek and Latin. This is fantasy. The only thing that can explain anyone's believing such things is ignorance and anti-Semitism.

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