Moses lived about 1500 BC. As far back as 800 BC, neither Israel nor Judah was truly monotheistic. About 600 BC, monotheism ascended and subsidiary cult centers were wiped out. Soon after, the book of Deuteronomy was rediscovered in the Temple of Judah.
I'm not sure how this follows. So let's sum up the argument... The ruler Josiah supported monotheism, suppressed opposition, and the religious center in Jerusalem put it's weight behind a holy book. In the holy book was a story almost 1000 years old that talks about a divine revelation to all the Jewish people. This story didn't destroy the rulers and powerful people so therefor the story must be true.
That's a weak and pitiful argument and does not constitute absolute verifiability.
It’s interesting that The Jews are still here, as a viable people long after so many of their early contemporaries are dust...and that their homeland is Israel, which has never been the sovereign of anyone else.
Torah also ties to modern science remarkably well.
“Gi’me that ol’ time religion!”
That's a weak and pitiful argument and does not constitute absolute verifiability.
That same book (Deuteronomy) also (as pointed out in the article) makes the claim that no nation (i.e. no religion) would EVER make a similar claim. Some 2,500 years after Ezra and 15,000 religions later, still no takers.
Further, G-d promised the Jews that they would be an eternal people. Despite widespread hatred, the loss of their homeland, the ease of conversion to other religions and multiple attempts to literally exterminate the Jews, they are still here (and, with some 400 nukes and the ability to deliver them over a wide range, they seem not to be going anywhere).
That's about as close to absolute verifiability as you'll ever get. Actually, the holes in the facts are far more in the nature of mistakes by secular archeologists. There are, for instance, serious questions about the exact order of Egyptian Pharoahs - and lots of dates for events outside of Egypt are dependent on who was Pharoah when.
Tao Yin, the chosen people brought the original text of the Torah to the present day. With all of the oppositions and obstacles along the way, they could not have done so by themselves. That’s a big deal, too—something to contemplate and cheer.
Everyone gets something good.
Isaiah 56.
Jealousy is a snag to be avoided.
Isaiah 11:13