No we don’t have any manuscripts that old (were it that we do) but we dopreserves parts of an ancient literary style that went out of use during
the
early to mid bronze age:
Do you have any evidence for this? As far as I am aware we don't have any
Hebrew manuscripts dated to that age (wish we did) and this line of
'evidence' merely furnishes new issues for debate.
have documents from other cultures, and they have revealed literary formulae
that appear in Genesis, but not in later books. One of them is that the
title and author of a document was listed at the end of the document, not at
the beginning.
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