‘Scholars’ have tried to paint the Masoretic Text as no more than 1300 years old. This seems to roll that back by several hundred years, although Leviticus may not have enough textual variants to judge properly.
Thanks much for your informed reply.
This is anecdotal, but I’m old and have followed these things for a long time. I think the age of these things, writing and civilization and religious culture, has been continually discovered to be older and older and older.
The more we learn, the further back it goes.
It, seems to me, that once it was put into writing, it was meticulously preserving in text (while simultaneously preserving language and religion and culture).
Of course we cannot know the, likely much more lengthy, oral chain; but, I believe, we can attribute a very similar adherence to the original there.
We are looking at a very very long time of unbroken transmission of history and beliefs. The more we learn the further back it goes.
I think 10,000 years is a conservative estimate. And that can be difficult to grasp and understand the content.