yup thanks for the invite @Smoke

interesting

__**HISTORY OF RELIGION**__

**The Bible Unearthed** is a book and documentary film presenting biblical archaeology and scholarship about the origins of Judaism.
DOCUMENTARY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RfScpEcZ8
BOOK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed
"...an archaeological analysis of the patriarchal, conquest, judges, and United Monarchy narratives [shows] that while there is no compelling archaeological evidence for any of them, there is clear archaeological evidence that places the stories themselves in a late 7th-century BCE context."
On the basis of this evidence they propose
“ ... an archaeological reconstruction of the distinct histories of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, highlighting the largely neglected history of the Omride Dynasty and attempting to show how the influence of Assyrian imperialism in the region set in motion a chain of events that would eventually make the poorer, more remote, and more religiously conservative kingdom of Judah the belated center of the cultic and national hopes of all Israel."
As noted by a reviewer on Salon.com the approach and conclusions of The Bible Unearthed are not particularly new. Ze'ev Herzog, professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University, wrote a cover story for Haaretz in 1999 in which he reached similar conclusions following the same methodology; Herzog noted also that some of these findings have been accepted by the majority of biblical scholars and archaeologists for years and even decades, even though they have only recently begun to make a dent in the awareness of the general public.