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Gmirkin is not only claiming that the passage in Diodorus Siculus book 40 is only loosely based on Hecataeus. IIUC He currently argues that the portion of the quote in Diodorus Siculus that he does attribute to Hecataeus was a source for (later) Jewish traditions rather than being evidence of (earl...

If you want me to respond to it you might like to let me know about it in some other venue. I am finding this forum a horrible, toxic, sickening place. I have more positive things to do and places to be. Oh, I've just seen this after responding to your other post. Yes, I have found it pretty toxic ...

Yes, but is not the Pentateuch a cooperative effort of "Judea/Jehud" and the Samarians? (That's not only Gmirkin's idea.) It was not produced by a single political or even religious state. That's a good point. The involvement of the Samaritans is crucial, but a very thorny problem when it...

what is the basis for our description of the Pentateuch "fractured, stratified, structurally complicated" OK, well, let's start with this - Three large corpuses of law - (this is encouraging me to upload my mini-essay on this subject) The Covenant Code (CC- Ex 20:24-23:19); The Holiness C...

The models you describe are born from the assumption that the biblical literature began in the times of the biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah, let's say from the eighth and seventh centuries -- and then, of course, in the "creative window" of the Babylonian captivity. But is not the d...

I'd agree with all this. I’m not sure what to say when you say “I'd agree with all this” but also say that you "regard the Gmirkin date as the earliest possible date that the raw materials (identified by Gmirkin - Plato, Berossus, Manetho et al) all became available in the Greek language at th...

Gmirkin has a detailed and original interpretation of Hecataeus, but at face value it seems to testify to the existence of some version of the Laws of Moses. Andrew Criddle Yep, I know Gmirkin's textual analysis of that passage and I have to say that, when I first read the Manetho/Berossus book, I ...

Why can't Gmirkin's detractors find one ancient author or archeology mentioning the existence of the Torah before c.274 BCE? Why can't any archeological evidence for societal Torah observance be found prior to the early 2nd / late 3rd century BCE? I can't speak for all Gmirkin detractors, but only ...

Also, BTW, note that the only places in the Pentateuch that the phrase "sons of God" is used is Genesis 6 and Deuteronomy 32, which I consider a significant clue that the writer of Genesis 1-11 is the same person who wrote the ending of the Pentateuch as well. Although I agree that Deuter...

Also, BTW, note that the only places in the Pentateuch that the phrase "sons of God" is used is Genesis 6 and Deuteronomy 32, which I consider a significant clue that the writer of Genesis 1-11 is the same person who wrote the ending of the Pentateuch as well. Although I agree that Deuter...