Just provide verifiable references:Who believed in buried or alive Biblical Jerusalem 500 years ago?

Question

No new archeological news please, these have always been found fake after few years, more than 500 times already. Please quote with verifiable reference details some known scholars of five hundred years ago who clearly stated that Biblical Jerusalem is buried or had been alive at Syrian province of Palestine? Scholars: Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeol... Thomas L. Thompson, Kamal Salibi and their fast growing associates deny existance of any Biblical city called Jerusalem in Palestine ever in the history. They point to the complete absence of any Archeological and textual evidance from the time before the time of recent five six centuries of our past. Bible as such is not considered history anymore as historicity of its characters is all disputed. Why not present any thing other than Bible for Jerusalem ever in the Syrian province of Palestine? Does any thing exist to support Biblical Jerusalem?

Answer 1

Are you suggesting that the ancient city of Jerusalem did not exist?  

The Roman historian Livy wrote about Pompey's conquest of the city (63 BCE) in book 102 of his Periochae.  I sincerely doubt Livy invented a fictional city as part of his history of Rome.  I'd consider Livy a credible reference.

I also dispute that there is no archeological evidence that ancient Jerusalm existed.  You should visit the place and see it for yourself.  There is a lot more evidence of it than just the Old Testament, or even Livy, for that matter.

Sounds like revisionist history to me.

Answer 2

Why don't you post this in the Israel section, I'm sure you will get plenty of interesting answers.

By the way, I've been to Jerusalem a few times, went down the tunnel along the Western wall, plenty of clay artifacts down there with Hebrew writing on them, you see the Muslim Wakf didn't get to these, so they couldn't destroy that part of history.