Palestinians, Villains in the Bible, Were Europeans

DNA has revealed the Palestinians may have been vilified because they were from a different culture. The ancients who wrote the Bible did not like them. They were recorded as difficult people and ones who doubted what the Biblical authors were preaching.

The DNA collected from some graves of Palestinians tells use the were originally from Southern Europe and migrated to the area of the Biblical authors about 17 centuries BCE. From the Bible one gets the impression they kept their cultural identity and perhaps looked physically different.

We have to use a bit of caution here and note that there may have been various cultures represented by those call Palestinians. The discovered bones with European DNA may have been but one of several subsets of people.

The general point, however, that groups maligned in the Bible may have been demonized for reasons not given. They may have been foreigners or had a history different than the small group who wrote stories previously told around camp fires.

For some reasons we humans are programmed to pick out groups outside of our own and demonize them. There is plenty of that in the Bible. And, there is too much of it today.

I'm trying to remember groups that have been demonized in my long life. I'm sure I can't remember many. They were, of course, black people. During WWII it was not just Japanese but some other oriental races. New waves of immigrants woke up dislike, the Irish and Italians come to mind. Native Americans have suffered from day one. Lately it's been Muslims, Mexicans and Central Americans.

Think of what a "Bible" would say if it were written at any point in the last eight or nine decades. Black people, Mexicans or Muslims would be the Palestinians. That Christianity is based on a shallow book called the Bible is most unfortunate.