Very informative. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing this, it's got me going down a rabbit hole now! There's just so much stuff surrounding Judaism and early Christianity that you just don't hear about or engage with meaningfully or critically as a Christian, so now I'm enjoying getting stuck into it.

It's an interesting topic! I havent had a chance to watch this yet.

But the topic is one covered in The Bible Unearthed, a book that describes archaeological evidence of bronze age Judah contradicting historical claims made in the first seven books of the Bible.

The book talks about how a particular king used an official state religion to unify the north and south regions, replacing polytheism with monotheism and basically borrowing and mashing up a couple of the many gods being worshipped at the time and compiling religious myths, traditions, etc. into what is now the first books of the bible.