“These secular, Christian and Catholic scholars developed a consensus history of when the Bible was written down that put it after the Jewish exiles to Babylon. That’s a thousand years after Moses.”
That means they’ve devoted themselves to a document they believe is fictional. The Bible itself says when it was written. Must cause them some cognitive dissonance, to say the least.
There are manifold cognitive dissonances going on here. But that’s life too. It’s not meant to be a ‘gimmee’, a welfare state so to speak. It takes effort, there is no retirement, no pension seekers, no retirement lifestyles, no sinecures, no vacations.
The Biblical Scholars, however created one. An establishment. Intellectual property rights and rents. Sinecures, pensions, power, franchises.
Not to say that these kind of establishments — or vacations, pensions, intellectual property land rents and nobility classes are bad things. They can be good for a time for some, but they are easily corrupted, corrupting. It’s just something to watch for, to not get too sucked into.
Yes, a lot of these types of biblical scholars treat it as fictional. They treat it like they treat the Illiad.