(August 27, 2022 at 4:43 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(August 27, 2022 at 3:51 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I find it incomprehensible that a document could be composed in the 6th-century BCE and all of a sudden get a plethora of references come mid-2nd century BCE with not so much as a peep prior to that!
References usually appear after something is written. So even with your exaggerated description the most you can conclude is that it was written before the earliest reference not after.
I think it more likely that it was just another ancient forgery.
