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Originally posted by nos482:
Isn't Judaism almost 6000 years old?
Judaism claims an age of very close to that. We are in year 5763 of the Jewish calender, which, supposedly is calibrated to the beginning of the world and hence of Judaism.
But I wasn't talking about the age of Judaism but about the people who wrote the various parts of the Bible and what they intended. The oldest text we have of the OT is dated circa the 7th century BC, which is where I drew the date of 3000 years.
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And wasn't the OT originally recorded through much older oral traditions?
"Recorded through oral tradition" is a bit of an oxymoron isn't it? Ever try to get five or six people to repeat the same thing?
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Or doesn't that count unless it is written down?
It does count, but how does it effect what I said? One, we don't know what was being passed around prior to our first copy, so you can't argue that the Isrealites were some special case. Two, why would they not believe what they wrote? Wierd as it is, people do tend to take their religions seriously.
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