Very interesting stuff Brian. You are certainly correct with regard to people(like me) having been misled by the Biblical Archeaology crowd. In my case it was the church youth group leader when I was about 15(I'm 42 now). He used the argument that we could trust the Bible was God's word because the archeaologists found the Hittites, but he was vague about just who they were.
Anyway, I have studied somewhat the ancestors of the Anatolian Hittites, and you may be interested to know that these people partly originated from the prehistoric(appx. 7000 BC) settlement town of Catal Hoyuk. But regarding the Hittites of Palestine I would like to learn more.
Apparently, people want to believe so badly that they ignore or twist the new facts when those facts go against their long-held cherished beliefs. The Catholic inquisitors did this to Galileo when he invited them to look thru his telescope to prove that the earth revolved around the sun, and they refused.
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