[CondorFlight]

“and before many scholars believe the major part of the biblical texts, including the five books of Moses”

Joseph, who predated Moses by 400 years, was Prime Minister of Egypt. And Moses was raised as a prince, a member of Pharaoh’s household.

Are we to be told those people couldn’t write, or that they couldn’t have had set down all the records that they wished?

[PlateOfShrimp]

The question is - did they have proportional fonts?

[grey_whiskers]

Relax. They say the same thing about Trump voters today.

Hey, because I guess the Israelites were the *original* Bible-thumpers...when they weren't committing apostasy and whoring after foreign gods, that is...

[xzins]

600 B.C. That was shortly before Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah, and the exile of its elite to Babylon -- and before many scholars believe the major part of the biblical texts, including the five books of Moses, also known as the Pentateuch, were written down in any cohesive form.

That's a major liberal view of the Old Testament that is discounted in so many ways. The bottom line is that a more biblical (and archeological view) has the Pentateuch written by about 1400 or 1250 depending on one's view of the pharaoh at the time of the Exodus.