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Surely you shoild be able to cite a source saying that alll scholars agree that the Pentateuch was pre-Hellenistic . This is controversial? Do I need to prove there is no scholar who thinks the Pentateuch was originally written in Chinese? Your model is poor. I present a better model If someone had...

There are hundreds of scholars in this field. If you include published opinions it's thousands. Gmirkin is a flake of dust in a vast ocean of conformity. So? Surely you shoild be able to cite a source saying that alll scholars aaside from Gmirkin agree that the Pentateuch was pre-Hellenistic. I was...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 6:30 pm So the bottom line is 100% of scholars likely think the Pentateuch predated the Hellenistic period. 100%..

Gmirkin is a scholar. And even if he were not, you need to provide a citation for your claim.

Cite some documents. Point to actual evidence. Stop waving your hands. By the way, did you find my evidence adequate, or did you ignore it along with my words You conflate dating the Pentateuch to the Hellernistic period with accepting Gmirkin's proposal. ? Here is the evidence, conflater. Cite som...

Adler does not support Gmirkin's hypothesis. What do you think would happen if I emailed Lemche or Weselius about Gmirkin's theory? Come on. This is stupid. Are you so incapable of reading and understanding my words tthat you missed my words that: You conflate dating the Pentateuch to the Hellernis...

the evidence which we have does not support the claim that the Pentateuch predates the Hellenistic period What dating does the evidence support? Of course the evidence supports the Persian period. One scholar says it was made in an Alexandrian laboratory and 100% of the rest of academia says it pre...

Really? You honestly believe that. What? Be specific. You think the Jews lied about having a Pentateuch in the Persian period. I nver said that, nor do I believe that. Rather, the evidence which we have does not support the claim that the Pentateuch predates the Hellenistic period. But this is not ...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:59 pm I am not saying that everything in the gospel was "true" but we can't just make a blanket assumption it was all a lie.

But nor can we assume that the gospel was meant to convey truth.

Furthermore, all of these Buddhist texts which I am citing, although interesting parellels to the possible creation of fictitious prose narratives about a real person which were and are believed by members or a religion to be true, are a distraction from the main controversy with Secret Alias's clai...

Show Buddhist "gospels" developed from an obsession with messianic chronology i.e. that after a certain number of years the messiah or Buddha would come and that the fulfillment of these calculations was/were entirely fictitious i.e. a hoax and that this sham became the centerpiece to an ...