[Accygirl]

Two different ideas... The Hebrew Bible accurately reflects the life and times of the authors, but it doesn't accurately reflect the events. A scribe in Jerusalem during the late 8th century BCE wouldn't know anything about Abraham's life, but he likely thought to himself that Abraham must have lived alot like my nomadic constituents and therefore wrote Abraham's character as if he would be at home in "contemporary" Israelite surroundings.

[Elsie]

A scribe in Jerusalem during the late 8th century BCE wouldn't know anything about Abraham's life...

How do you know this??