the tanakh contradicts history. what you're talking about was mainstream and well known for decades among archeologist and published peer reviewed academics. however it wasn't well known amongst every to day people. And this probably still the case to this day. Most people probably don't know that the tanakh's account of history contradicts the material evidence of those bygone eras. even in countries where belief in the tanakh is declining. And the people who stop beliving in the bible probably do so for reasons other than it's contradiction to history. I mean most people think tanakh writings are bronze age and iron age writings. When the bulk of the tanakh is most likely from the Hellenistic period. not even from the Persian period.

>be archaeologist
>dig around Sinai for decades
>find literally zero evidence of millions of Israelites wandering for 40 years
>Exodus not even once
>read about Jericho walls falling from trumpet blast
>actually check Jericho
>city was already destroyed centuries before Joshua would’ve arrived
>tanakh cope intensifies
>open tanakh
>David and Solomon had giga-kingdom with gold, palaces, empire vibes
>check archaeological record
>barely find a few huts and broken pottery
>“unified monarchy” my ass
>see Philistines mentioned in Abraham’s time
>they didn’t even exist yet
>tanakh.exe has stopped working
>global flood with Noah and zoo boat
>geology and archaeology: “nah bro, never happened”
>no flood layers, no mass extinction, no ark debris
>boat story just vibes
>look up ancient records from Egypt, Assyria, Babylon
>expect epic tanakh battles and plagues
>records: “who?”
>tanakh getting ghosted by history
>dig in Canaan
>expect foreign Israelite invaders
>instead find Canaanites slowly evolving into Israelites
>“conquest of Canaan” was just a rebrand
>analyze Hebrew texts
>turns out most were written centuries after events they describe
>tfw your holy book is historical fanfic

Every holy book contradicts history, that's what mysticism does.

>>17808092 (OP)
A few very important pieces of information are correct. Namely the flood, which we now know to have been a literal historical event, taking place about 12kya and being recounted in the most vivid detail by the OT. This shifts back the timeline of the bible by several thousand years at the very least, indicating that is in fact a much older text than previously assumed, but maybe not, it is messy to say the least. There are also very strange indicators that the author understood what the conditions of early life were on the planet, namely that life began in the oceans and archaic human species existed first then Adam & Eve or "modern" homo sapiens emerged with something being special about them. I don't think I need to tell you how unlikely it is that we were able to guess and enumerate so clearly bits of bioanthropology and paleontology that would be entirely unverifiable for millennia. The telomere limit and understanding of organic life also being mentioned is another insane "coincidence" that attests to the original author of these books knowing intricately the origins of life. This is on par with Aristotle accidentally describing atoms but it happens like 20 times in Genesis alone.