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::That's ''not'' what I said, not what I meant, and not what it amounts to. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 06:37, 29 March 2007 (EDT)
::That's ''not'' what I said, not what I meant, and not what it amounts to. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 06:37, 29 March 2007 (EDT)
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:''By the most optimistic estimates, then, nothing in Genesis was written less than a thousand years after the events it attempts to describe, which isn't to say the authors may not have drawn on earlier texts. After all, no works from the Roman period survive in the authors' handwriting, yet the authenticity of, say, the letters of Cicero is rarely disputed. However, the most recent historical and archeological research reported and collated by Finkelstein and Silberman, among others, suggests that the Torah is unlikely to have been written much before the 7th century BC.''
This line of reasoning was applied beginning in the mid-1800s, and was thoroughly disproved. The editor also states that Cicero is undisputed despite having no written evidence in the author's handwriting, yet he tries to disprove Genesis as being no older than the 7th century B.C., and this based on revisionist works by Finkelstein and Silberman. This is evidence of double-standards. If one can accept Cicero based on no evidence, then one can accept the Bible as being written in a far older time than the 7th century B.C....unless the editor has a personal dislike for the Bible, as does Finkelstein and Silberman. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 19:10, 3 April 2007 (EDT)
== Question on text ==
== Question on text ==