Made in Alexandria: The Origin of the Yahweh Cult

[Aractus]

You are so full of yourself - do you know that? Even Min can see it. You have no evidence. You're not an authority on this ya know - in fact you're nothing.

Let's consider something for a moment - almost all scholars - Christian, Jewish, Secular - almost every single one agrees that the OT books were written at different times to each other and over a span of at least several hundred years. You're not even a scholar - why is your opinion more valid than the cumulative opinion of the group?

The.LXX.can.not.be.traced.any.further.back.than.the.Hexapla.

I don't know how to get the point across to you - the source that you keep going to, that you keep claiming is the authority on the written OT Biblical tradition appears first - as we know it - mid 3rd century. It doesn't appear BC, it doesn't appear in the first or the second centuries AD it appears in the third century AD from - *nowhere*. Now those scholars I just mentioned - you know the ones who will tell you that the HEBREW was written in stages - they also have an opinion on the LXX. They're in huge agreement on the fact that the Hexapla represents a recension of that particular written Greek tradition. Maybe you can appeal to the scholars on that one, but not on the Hebrew??

The Masoretic Text represents an ancient textual tradition - almost all scholars are unanimous on this. You claim that it's been revised - in other words that it's a recension of an older Hebrew version which itself is a recension of the Greek. Well produce your evidence.

You have nothing. You don't even know what you're talking about. Made in Alexandria my ass! Bart D. Ehrman shits all over your theory. And that's saying something.