I don't shy away from anything. As far as I'm concerned, any body of evidence or reasonable argument is fair game. This doesn't mean I have an answer for everything but that nothing is ruled out a priori. If the available evidence suggests that the Bible's account of the Exodus from Egypt never happened, I accept it. I celebrate Passover as a moral ideal rather than established fact. If my account of early Israelite history is inaccurate, I'm happy to be corrected. But as far as I know, the conquest of Palestine as described in the Bible never happened.
I don't shy away from anything. As far as I'm concerned, any body of evidence or reasonable argument is fair game. This doesn't mean I have an answer for everything but that nothing is ruled out a priori. If the available evidence suggests that the Bible's account of the Exodus from Egypt never happened, I accept it. I celebrate Passover as a moral ideal rather than established fact. If my account of early Israelite history is inaccurate, I'm happy to be corrected. But as far as I know, the conquest of Palestine as described in the Bible never happened.