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Russell, you do not know what I have read.
But run if you wish.

In a view of a long duration of copying and variant mss a "roughly contemporary" origin proposal is both unnecessary and quite improbable.

Dismissing the fact that the earliest known manuscript does not date an origin shows bias.
Merely asserting that x in your opinion is more Greek than Near Eastern is undemonstrated so weightless.

Though not all here will agree, I think Joan E. Taylor's article Golgotha: A Reconsideration of the Evidence for the Sites of Jesus' Crucifixion and Burial NT Studies 44 (1998) 180-203 is reasonable. From the abstract: "In this study Golgotha is defined as the area of a disused quarry, west of ...

Celsus was probably dead by the time Origen wrote. I believe he hadn't heard of him before, in Alexandria, or even later, until asked to respond. No threat to his thesis.
If that Jew were well known, why did no one else, that we know of, know about him, or quote his text, or give his name?

But, evidently, Origen never heard of Celsus nor the (hypothetical) Jewish text during his time in Alexandria, but only later when his patron, who was then in Asia Minor (where he heard of Celsus?) coerced him into writing a rebuttal.

Tet and Taw are different consonants.

It may be worth noting that in the Academic Discussion, thread "Why the Hellenistic era for ALL 'Old Testament' books should be taken seriously," NG wrote, in part, Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:47 am: "A question for the more hard hearted sceptics who cannot possibly conceive of any serious pos...

Different views, "hard hearted"? In the title of this thread, "Why the Hellenistic era for ALL 'Old Testament' books should be taken seriously," do note the word "should." So far, justifications offered for that bold claim (e.g., "ALL" is bold) have been mostl...

The book discussed in Jewish Texts and History section,
The sources of Celsus's criticism of Jesus: Theological developments in the second century AD,
Tijsseling, Egge, author
Leuven ; Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2022,
fwiw, suggests that Celsus drew on a Jewish text that he, E.T., dates between c.105-130.