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Originally Posted by Snowball7
The author is a biased heretic who pushes his anti-Catholic and anti-Davidic, anti-Divine agenda.
MacCulloch is a rabid homosexual activist. You will not get unbiased presentation or respect for
traditions of millenia in any of his deceitful screeds.
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Good ol' Snowball. We can always rely on you for a balanced, reasoned questioning of the evidence for any proposition that cuts across your faith -based beliefs.
It has been increasingly accepted that the OT (I looked at it as compared with the Hebrew Pentateuch and the difference is really only in the ordering, so I am not bothered by the Jewish dislike of term 'OT') is pretty mythological up to probably David. Even Exodus, which I originally thought had some basis in fact (though heavily laced with bias) seems almost entirely made up - except
possibly for one unrelated historical event - the expulsion of the Hyksos.
I am dubious myself about those early dates and I see reasons to put the writing of the first part of the Bible - the law and rites - as after the establishment of Israel in the 11th c BC and the 'History' (borrowing from Mesopotamian legend - Moses in the bulrushes is strikingly similar to the story of Sargon of Akkad) added later. The Jeremiad stuff clearly relates to the (7th c BC) problems with Assyria and eventually with the 2nd Babylonian empire, ending with the Exile. The oldest known Biblical writing is the 6th c BC 'silver scroll' with a prayer containing a a somewhat garbled reference to Numbers and Leviticus/Deuteronomy, as I recall.
Thereafter, we get the post-dated (what they get wrong gives the date they were written) prophecies of Babylon, Tyre and Daniel and that means that this was written around the 3rd -2nd centuries BC.
After that is the Maccabean revolt and then Herod and then we are in NT times.
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