They basically dig up as much as they can find to disprove the Bible's history.
This simply shows your utter ignorance on the subject. For hundreds of years archaeologists assumed the Bible was true and interpreted anything they found in that light. Only after evidence against and better dating and investigative techniques were discovered did the overwhelming preponderance of evidence show the Bible was in no way historically accurate.
You are are basically a mouthpiece for how not to thing, a walking advertisement for why we need to teach critical thinking in schools, a billboard screaming out the need for a basic education in science and reasoning, all because you have none of those things.
Girrrrl, where have you been? I've missed you.
I know you are generally dismissive, but actually all this is very subjective and highly dependent on what dates you decide are the Bible's dates for certain events. For instance, Martin Anstey concluded that per the bible, the 1st of Cyrus needed to be dated to c. 455 BCE. On that presumption he assumed the Persian Period was some 82 years too long.
On that note, though, the Jewish rabbinical timeline becomes of great interest. That timeline dates the 6th of Darius and thus the completion of the temple to as late as 352 BCE! That's a reduction in the Persian Period of 164 years! That is, 516 - 352 = 164. Now no one takes 352 BCE seriously as year 6 of Darius I, but it is suspicious as a cryptic date since it is exactly double the distortion of the Persian Period per Anstey and the Bible. That is, the presumptive revised date for year 6 of Darius falls in 516 BCE, exactly 82 years eralier than the Biblical date for that event in 434 BCE. But 352 BCE is exactly 82 years later than 434 BCE. Thus that reference is considered to be a cryptic reference. If so, we cannot rule out that the rabbinical Jews were not aware of the revisions made to the Persian Period. They are just not sharing that with the "goyim" (, i.e. gentiles).
Two other dates also stand out. 526 and 522 BC. There is a 4-year interval between the fall of Jersualem and the beginning of the 70-year exile. The original dates are 529 BCE and 525 BCE, respectively. Now 5226 and 522 BCE do not covert with the application of a simple 82 years. But if you add the 21 years it took to build the 2nd temple and add that to 82 yeras, giving you 103 years, then 522 and 526 BCE convert to 525 and 529 BCE. At this point, the presumption is that the dates in the rabbinical timeline are cryptic references to the original timeline and convert to the original dating based on some temple-related interval. That is not disproved with their dating of the 1st temple in 832 BCE. The original date is 906 BCE based on the Exodus occurring in 1386 BCE. That represents a 74-year discrepancy (906 = 832 = 74). Of course, 74 is another temple-related interval; it is the interval between the end of the first temple and the beginning of the second (529 - 455 = 74) . Because of this, one presumption is that the Jews never lost track of the original timeline and these cryptic dates are thus used to support the original restored timeline.
So as I said, harmony between the Bible and secular references entirely depends on what Biblical timeline you use and what secular references you use. The 1386 BCE Exodus timeline has high compatibility with a lot of secular references.
I don't mind your pontificating condescending, by the way. We both know I'm the true BBOB* here. (smile)
Welcome back to the discussion!
*"BBOB" = "big bitch on the block"
