Thanks, I posted the article as I thought it interesting. Interesting that this one professor thought his discovery proved thousands of others wrong.
If there were 99 theories about the origin of the Bible and they all agreed that before Moses the Hebrew sacred scriptures were passed down as an oral tradition since Hebrews couldn't write, and then 1 guy came up with a demonstration that Hebrews had writing a thousand years earlier, that would pretty much demolish that aspect of the other 99 theories.
One popular work of nearly half a century ago was Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible. It's a compendium of a large number of theories regarding Bible origins, theories about how writing was invented, when and where, as well as speculation about obscure stories in the Bible.
Not that Isaac was the world's best Biblical scholar but he was a decent writer. The only unfortunate aspect of this book is that when there was the slightest doubt Isaac took the dark side.
At the time this book was written the scholarly concensus was that Hebrews couldn't write until they got to Egypt and even then continued with the oral tradition until they got back to Caanan where they waited another 500+ years for the Babylonian captivity where the Arabs taught them how to write. These days Egyptian writing is known to be a development that took place long after Sumerian writing, and that by the time of Father Abraham, who spent most of his life wandering about what had been ancient Sumeria, writing was widespread in that same area. Today's scholars are pretty much forced to come up with ideas of why proto-Hebrews were incapable of picking up writing from their neighbors!
Isaac Asimov would no doubt be pleased with this particular archaeological find ~ which proves that Jews were smart back in the good old days ~ but he'd also be disappointed that virtually all the then current theories regarding Biblical scholarship were in serious error.
BTW, the folks who carry on the tradition of preparing handmade Torahs for use in synagogue worship also memorize the text they write. Basically no mistakes are allowed and if one is made they start over.