...Karl, I haven't been following all of this in detail, but are you really trying to deny that the commandments were written on stone tablets? That seems clear from Exodus 24:12, 31:18, 34:4. The tablets seem to have been small enough to be carried in his hand, but also large enough for what was written on them - and it is not clear whether this is to be understood as just the Ten Commandments but also chapters 21-23. I suppose the exact meaning of the Hebrew might be reinterpreted, but if LXT 'BN doesn't mean "stone tablets", of some size or other, what does it mean?
5) The tablets would have had to meet these expected customary forms to beThis is a leap, to say that they had to be tablets.
accepted as authoritative... whether or not there was a wall to display
them on. In this case, they were placed in a carry-case called an ark
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