RE: Chat with a creationist
May 5, 2012 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2012 at 3:22 pm by Abishalom.)
(May 5, 2012 at 12:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It probably was not written at all until the Greeks came along. Many religions begin as oral tales in the hands of priests. The fact that we have no texts...or even inscriptions in tombs argues against any great literary tradition. Perhaps Philip R Davies would be the best place to start.Why do you make such baseless assumptions? Are you aware that it was the Greeks who ordered the Greek translation of the bible from Hebrew as a "scholarly writing"? So obviously the scriptures had to have been around for quite some time.
If you have Google Chrome you can translate this page. But this is a tomb dated to at least 6th or 7th century BC.
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%9...7%99%D7%AA
So we can safely conclude that the Hebrew scriptures were at least in already circulation at some prior time to the 6th/7th century BC. Of course I posted an article discussing a Hebrew artifact dated around 10th century BC. That coupled with the fact that the Hebrew language has been around since at least 10th century BC. Then we can safely conclude that the Hebrew culture has been around since at least some time prior to the 10th century BC.
