You answered the question raised in the last sentence of yours that I quoted.ABuddhist wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:47 amWith all due respect, I read years ago that the oldest texts which are found within the Bible are from inscribed silver bearing blessings also found in Numbers. The inscriptions have been dated to the 7th or 6th century BCE.neilgodfrey wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 7:11 am And if you really have identified clear evidence of biblical books prior to 270 BCE (I only noticed earlier that you said Paleo-Hebrew script was known earlier, a fact no-one disputes) then Gmirkin has made complete idiots of his reviewers and scholarship-specialist publisher.
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Of course, blessing formulas are easy to insert into texts from any time period, so this in no way proves that the Hebrew Bible as a whole predates such inscribed silver.
There are many archaeological finds from long before 270 that have their references in the Bible. The interpretation of such evidence needs to conform to the standards of interpretation applied in other historical-archaeological disciplines. Squeezing everything through a text for which we have no evidence prior to 270 is backwards reasoning. It's the circularity of method that has been increasingly identified and rejected especially since the 1990s.
A Pilate inscription does not prove the gospel Passion Narratives a historical -- the silver amulet interpretation of apologists is the same logical error.