Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jason Hare <jaihare AT gmail.com>]

Yigal Wrote:
>> To which the "cynical" answer would be - "How likely is it that a book 
>> would
have survived, unknown and unnoticed, for hundreds of years since the days
of Moses?... <<

What would lead us to think that the scroll was locked away since the
time of Moses? It need only have been in the Temple since the split of
the Northern Kingdom from Judah, or even from a time later... when
people began to seriously reject the worship at the Temple in
Jerusalem and "attend services" at the BMWT. What would make someone
surmise that the scroll had been lost in the Temple for hundreds of
years? It could have been a matter of two or three generations.

Regards,
Jason Hare
Rehovot, Israel