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1 Sigma = 68% probability range 2 Sigma = 95% probability range 3 Sigma = 99.7% probability range Don't forget that 6 sigma = 99.99966%. https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/3-sigma However, there is not enough data points to make 3 sigma predictions let alone 6 sigma regarding C...

Just a note for the future reveal. Do not make the mistake of saying that I claimed that all of the Dead Sea Scrolls are hundreds of years older than the paleography scholars claim. Instead, what I'm saying and have always said is; some of the scrolls are significantly older than originally estimate...

The Pentateuch is a Samaritan or northern Israelite document. Enoch is a Jewish or southern Israelite document. If you can explain why the Samaritan document won out among Jews over a native text I am all ears. Every premise above is wrong. We have been over this before. Enoch is a pre-first Temple...

Yes, I agree with Gmirkin's thesis. I also add in the thesis of Margaret Barker in her The Great Angel . I think both scholars are essentially correct. The Torah, and hence Judaism as we know it, was created after the conquest of the Persian empire by Alexander. This is really when what we call Jud...

You keep running into the same problem and that is; failure to take into account the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I'm no longer inclined to provide references that will simply be dismissed out of hand because it doesn't fit your narrative.
Best wishes.

Fast forward 8 years.

Are we now allowed to talk about the difference between semi-atheists like Richard Dawkins and pseudo-athiests like Carrier?

Again, to dismiss the Dead Sea Scrolls is to misunderstand the relationship between Genesis and apocryphal accounts. Which came first, the book of Jubilees or Amram? Amram the father of Moses saw the devil in the form of a serpent. The Testament of Amram. 4Q545 (I saw Watchers) in my vision, a dream...

I recall reading about some ancient text describing "James the Lord's brother" as looking physically similar to Jesus. It said that sometimes even their mother could not tell them apart. Frustratingly, I cannot find the document or the citation! Can anyone help? Brothers from a different ...

C14 date ranges can, in some cases, disprove a hypothesis. For example, if a Qumran Torah text were dated, with high confidence, to 400-300 BCE, then a hypothesis of Torah written first in c. 273-272 would be excluded. https://as.nyu.edu/hebrewjudaic/events/dss-conference-recordings.html Stephen, T...

I'd like to get some feedback on this, as this is going to be a major point in the book I'm working on.... ...The Deuteronomist version of Judaism that we find in the Jewish canon wasn't actually some ancient religion that had been established for thousands of years, it was something that was inven...