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Chris Watts: You wrote: “Are you saying that, for example, the first five books of Moses were written when? in your opinion.” Let me first answer in terms of xireq compaginis, and then I’ll answer your question in more general terms. 1. Xireq
Compaginis. In the Amarna Letters
from mid-14th century BCE Canaan proper [excluding
Per Wm. Moran [the editor of
the Amarna Letters] and Robert Hendel [a famed Hebrew language expert] (the
latter in 2012), we know that the archaic xireq compaginis was occasionally used
in Amarna Letters from Several of the peculiarities
of this particular scribe are found in the Patriarchal narratives, leading one
to surmise that after leaving IR-Heba’s employ in 2. Now let me answer more directly the question that you asked. I see the Patriarchal narratives as having been composed, and written down on about 50 cuneiform clay tablets, in the mid-14th century BCE. By contrast, as to all the rest of the Bible, I basically go with mainstream scholarly opinion. Thus I see the rest of the “five books of Moses”, including chapter 36 of Genesis but excluding all the rest of the Patriarchal narratives, as having multiple authors and as not having been recorded in writing until well into the 1st millennium BCE. Jim Stinehart |
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