Almost everyone in the Middle East during the 1800’s had no idea there were vast ancient kingdoms such as Elam and Sumer in their lands where now are deserts or land so dry it couldn’t have supported the kingdoms known to Christians though who began conducting archaeological investigations based solely on the contents of books of Genesis and Exodus, so the fact that academics these days look on the Bible with jaundiced eye only proves their biblephobia, the avoidance of historical truths because of the spiritual message entailed therein.
