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LC previously wrote, Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:49 pm, in part: "...how are we supposed to start looking at the historical evidence? It looks like a mess. Unless you have some better ideas I'm just trying to tidy it up a little." I suggest the "implications" of "assumptions" ab...

Well, that's a "strong opinion."

There appears to be a general trend of dating some Qumran mss earlier than previous estimates and date ranges, as I wrote before. One recent example, in this subforum: Palaeo-Hebrew: a new advance by StephenGoranson » Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:03 am, and M. Langlois on paleo-Hebrew paleography of several m...

Niels P. Lemche (U. Copenhagen) wrote an essay, April, 2024 at
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/article ... rminus-quo

I was not persuaded.
Others?

The question remains, whether your one-source total manufacture proposal is so obviously true.
Or whether, though I don't see that proposal as plausible, I am allowed to think something different.

One of the variables in claims about when the five books of Torah were written or completed is whether or when what counts as being completed.
By, e.g., Gmirkin.
By, elsewhere, Lemche.
And others.

If, rgprice, "trying to sort all of this out has been impossible,"
why did you say "I have no doubt..."?
Does that mean that the sorting out was previously impossible, but, in your view,
it is now sorted out, and, if so,
partially or completely?

JarekS, you have repeated your "marketing and content sales" pitch.
No sale.

Guiseppe, of course you are free to say, as you did above, in part: "I enjoy to inquiry on different hypotheses [...]" What I do question is your approval of multiple opinions which all embrace mythicism, but, at the same time, as means to that end, you appear to accept those scenarios tha...

Reading the materiality of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri: non-invasive analyses to reveal scribal choices by Tea Ghigo and Alberto Nodar Dominguez Open access Archaeological and Anthropological Science Published: 14 August 2023 Volume 15, article number 132, (2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007...