How stupid do you have to be?...

[Angrboda]

In checking out the shekel shit I learned that this was originally a Babylonian unit of measurement which, like everything else apparently, they stole from the Babylonians.

Another blow against the OT being written before the Babylonian conquest.

I thought about this while watching the video version of "The Bible Unearthed." Finklestein argues that elements of the text are clearly anachronistic if one accepts the traditional dating of them, and suggests a 7th century composition. However, while the anachronisms clearly suggest a late recording of the texts, they do not in and of themselves fix a date of composition, as changes during oral transmission, as well as accretions, can account for anachronisms without critically impugning the integrity of the text. (There are other ways for anachronisms to innocently creep into texts, but I don't remember them offhand. Given that the Hebraic texts weren't normalized until centuries later, some as late as the second century CE, there's plenty of room for inadvertent anachronisms to creep in.)