No, Jim, if I write that something happened, without qualification, I mean not just that it is my view or opinion that it happened, but that I know that it happened, beyond reasonable doubt. You cannot know, beyond reasonable doubt, that the DtrH (whatever that might be) was written after the exile, because there is insufficient evidence. But I would let this pass if you could provide some good evidence that this actually happened.
And what do Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzer do to prove the Bible's account of Israel's history? ...
They are part of the Bible's account of Israel's history. They are themselves something in the Hebrew Bible. And this confirmation of the general accuracy of part of this history tends to suggest the reliability of more of it.
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