For what it’s worth, Professor Barnea also holds that the Torah was written in the early Hellenistic Era, when (as he notes) the first traditions about Moses also appear, namely in the writings of Hecataeus of Abdera and Manetho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjOW7vfPILA
Reinhard G. Kratz (discussing my work among others) also agrees that neither Hecataeus of Abdera, Manetho or Berossus are witnesses to the biblical tradition. “Consequently, we must abandon the view that these three historians are early witnesses for both the transmission and circulation of the Pentateuch among Jews and Greeks at the Persian–Hellenistic transition.”
Greek Historians on Jews and Judaism in the 3rd Century BCE, in S. Honigman et al. (eds.), Times of Transition: Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period, Mosaics 1, Tel Aviv 2021, 263–278.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjOW7vfPILA
Reinhard G. Kratz (discussing my work among others) also agrees that neither Hecataeus of Abdera, Manetho or Berossus are witnesses to the biblical tradition. “Consequently, we must abandon the view that these three historians are early witnesses for both the transmission and circulation of the Pentateuch among Jews and Greeks at the Persian–Hellenistic transition.”
Greek Historians on Jews and Judaism in the 3rd Century BCE, in S. Honigman et al. (eds.), Times of Transition: Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period, Mosaics 1, Tel Aviv 2021, 263–278.
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