The Bible is inaccurate and camels prove it, archaeologists claim
The Huffington Post UK
Archaeologists have cast doubt on the accuracy of the Bible after uncovering new evidence about camels.
Carbon dating suggests the animals were not domesticated in Israel until the 9th century BC – hundreds of years after they were depicted in the Old Testament.
Camels feature in biblical stories involving Abraham and Joseph.
The research was carried out by Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen of Israel’s Tel-Aviv University.
A statement from the university, reported in the Times of Israel, said the discrepancy “is direct proof that the [Biblical] text was compiled well after the events it describes”.
The archeologists found camel bones in layers that dated from the last third of the 10th century BC or later, long after they feature in the Bible.
