I do get what you're saying though. Alot of those scrolls are a good starting place for history, you just have to realize that people in those times wrote in metaphors.I think your sarcasm detector is on the fritz.
...There's a really good history show called "Battles BC," and it has a lot of episodes about biblical conflicts like the "Siege of Jericho" and "David & Goliath." ...In Jericho the bible says "they played the trumpets and the walls came tumbling down." That was in reference to their tactic of marching around the outer city walls for 3 days as a intelligence squad climbed through a window with a red rope into a prostitutes apartment that they paid with coin & immunity (low income residents lived in apartments contained in the outer wall). The others watching around the perimeter or a distraction, so when the intelligence and Assault squad heard the trumpets playing that meant they were ready for them to open the gates from the inside where metaphorically the "walls came tumbling down."
... The metaphor in David and Goliath in the book of the Philistines is in reference to the larger army that the Philistines had in comparison to King David's army. There was no such person as Goliath, just an army larger than King David's. The Philistines are actually what we call today the Palestinians, back then their primary religion was Coptic Christian.
... So you will find some interesting stuff you just have to know comprehend it properly and interpret passages with other sources that make more reasonable sense.
