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I've got a copy of that in NC from possibly high school years. I remember it being pretty disturbing to me at the time. Of course, I also didn't know anything about Biblical archaeology at the time. In fact, I still don't (and honestly, don't care so much about the OT), although I saw a really interesting video by Paul Maier on the current state of NT archaeology/documentation.

It's awfully interesting to compare it to the state of LDS archaeology, as well, which I didn't appreciate until seeing from the video the sorts of things that they've been able to find to back up NT statements, and how much of that they didn't have a hundred years ago. If one was a Mormon one could take this optimistically, in that they didn't have any of this evidence a hundred years ago, and who knows what may turn up in the next hundred years, or pessimistically, in the sense of, "why don't they have anything now when people are looking pretty actively?"

Maybe someday I'll feel brave enough to post publicly on my experiences with cognitive dissonance.