With our foundational position at such odds... I doubt if we can make any headway here.
Well it isn't my position. I'm listening to historical scholars who are the people who study this.
As the Pastor/historian from Centre Place lectures points out, literary criticism, (study , evaluation and interpretation of biblical literature) reveals several lines of evidence Genesis was written in the 6th century.
11:13 By the time Ezra read the law to the Judeans who returned from exile, the Pentateuch was likely assembled init’s present form.
Jews and Christians after Ezra frequently allude to characters and stories in Genesis (for example Paul frequently alludes to Adam, Abraham and Moses)
However the earliest prophetic authors in the Bible (300 years before Ezra) were apparently unfamiliar with key Genesis stories like Adam and Eve.
Original Isaiah frequently talks about David and Abraham but fails to mention Adam and Eve, Cain & Abel, Noah. These are likewise omitted by all other pre-exilic prophetic authors.
17th century critics pointed out numerous anachronisms. Analysis shows multiple authors. When separated each source has it’s own coherence 46:10
But as I also pointed out from worldhistory and Professor Stavrakopoulou the Mesopotamian, Babylonian and Egyptian sources in the OT are undeniable. In her latest book she uses the original Hebrew to show the way Yahweh was written about and things he says are exactly the same as all Gods going back to the Sumerians.
Francesca Stavrakopoulou Discusses Her Latest Book,
3:15 Yahweh is the same as older Greek gods. Anthropormorphic, dynamic, colorful, emotional, vivid, changeable, masculine, real body parts. In "God: An Anatom
literary criticism, access to Mesopotamian mythology was not available until recent centuries. We didn't know one of the proverb books was a copy of an Egyptian book of wisdon:
"The third unit, 22:17–24:22, is headed "bend your ear and hear the words of the wise". A large part of this section is a recasting of a second-millennium BCE Egyptian work, the
Instruction of Amenemope, and may have reached the Hebrew author(s) through an Aramaic translation. "
or that this literature was actually common way before the Hebrew Bible
"The "wisdom" genre was widespread throughout the
ancient Near East, and reading Proverbs alongside the examples recovered from Egypt and Mesopotamia reveals the common ground shared by international wisdom."
Book of Proverbs - Wikipedia
Also people didn't know that the NT was Greek theology and philosophy, including scholars because Greek wasn't available to most people. The early theologians had studied under people who were Neo-Platonist.
Also no church used the 4 gospels until the 3rd century. The 40 gospels were spread out among sects in the 2nd century and there were no "offical" beliefs. Each considered the others heretics.
I don't know how the speaker for the Centre Place lectures (who is a pastor) compartmentalizes and structures his beliefs or even what exactly he believes but he is well versed in history in the lectures I have seen so far.
I am interested in knowledge, not claims not supported by evidence. I am not interested in chemistry teachers telling historical scholars they are ALL WRONG because his extremely limited beliefs say so.
I am just following the evidence. Any good evidence is welcome.
