> Ancient Jewish and Christian writers, such as Ecclesiasticus,
Josephus, Philo, and Origen were essentially in full agreement that> Christian history agrees with this belief.
the Pentateuch was written solely by Moses. The Mishnah and the
Talmud also confirm this. Tradition during the first millennium of
Okay--but all these people lived--and the NT was written after CE. What
means did they have of knowing if Moses wrote the Torah? Did they even have a way
of detecting the anachronisms in it? There was no Egyptology or Biblical
archaeology then. They had a tradition--but sometimes tradition can be wrong.
> HH: It is important in showing the character of Joseph. I appreciated
the rest that you wrote but cannot respond to it. R. K. Harrison
found no other real parallels between the "Tale of Two Brothers" and
the Joseph story apart from this one incident of the attempted
seduction. By the dating of Eugene H. Merrill in his book Kingdom of
Priests (Baker, 1987, p. 31), the birthdate of Joseph was 1916 B.C.
By that dating he would have been contemporaneous with Sinuhe, if the
latter existed. Harrison says that Sinuhe supposedly comes from the
time of c. 1900 B.C.
I don't know how anybody pinpoints the birthdate of Joseph as 1916. I would
certainly like to see the rationale. The dating of Sinuhe is correct.
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