Jewish Texts and History • Re: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"

Niels P. Lemche (U. Copenhagen) wrote an essay, April, 2024 at
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/article ... rminus-quo

I was not persuaded.
Others?

I am persuaded that Lemche and Gmirkin and others have developed sound cases for a Hellenistic era origin for the Hebrew writings.

You were asked in the comments at that site, as you have been also asked here, to provide some evidence earlier than 272 BCE:

• Yes of course, but as long as you don't provide evidence of such early dates, your argument is not worth anything. So far I haven't seen or heard anything that is different from what was brought forward against especially Philip Davies -- thirty years ago, I believe.
  
  So please provide a piece of a scroll of, say the deuteronomistic history that can safely be from before 272 BCE.

You have not provided this data. I can agree that if such data were provided by yourself (or others) then this might provide a pause for thought about the Hellenistic era origin hypothesis. But so far ..... nothing.

Statistics: Posted by Leucius Charinus — Fri May 03, 2024 9:03 pm

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