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Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
A fairly high level of literacy was necessary if you wanted to write something and write it well, which was very uncommon back in the day and largely relegated to the elite. So it's extremely unlikely that shepherds and tentmakers had any part in writing the OT.I refer to actual historians when dating the OT, not biased websites whose entire purpose is to promote Christianity. Here's some examples:
https://books.google.lt/books?id=PSHCRgS_SAUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cambridge+companion+to+biblical+interpretation&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.lt/books?id=2Vo-11umIZQC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=Chronicles+Richard+J+Coggins&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
A fairly high level of literacy was necessary if you wanted to write something and write it well, which was very uncommon back in the day and largely relegated to the elite. So it's extremely unlikely that shepherds and tentmakers had any part in writing the OT.
Moses (a Hebrew who was raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, perhaps from the time he was weaned until he was an adult) was educated by dark-skinned Egyptians.
Acts 7:22
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
The Egyptians are renowned worldwide for their wisdom and understanding, which they graciously imparted to the Greeks (who took credit for the Egyptian’s vast, foundation-laying knowledge as something self-discovered, self-learned, and self-taught).
Sometime later, Moses assaulted, and killed an Egyptian who he witnessed beating another Hebrew. Moses’ crime was no secret so he fled to Midian where he got married to an Ethiopian woman, and became a shepherd for approximately 40 years, tending his father-in-law’s flock. Moses ultimately wrote two copies of the Ten Commandments, and the Jewish Torah (i.e. the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). These are Old Testament Books. There’s debate as to whether Moses wrote any other Books of the Bible.
The apostle Paul, who was both a Roman and Israelite (so he had privileges that the average Hebrew didn’t have), was a Pharisee.
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
The Pharisees pioneered Judaism, were regarded as spiritual leaders, along with the scribes occupied Moses’ seat of authority among the Jewish people…
Matthew 23:2-3
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore, whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.
…held to the teaching and strict adherence to the Torah (or Law of Moses), met in synagogues, believed in the hereafter following death, believed in the existence of angels and the resurrection,
Acts 23:8
For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection—and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
In addition, the apostle Paul (who wrote 51.8% of the New Testament i.e. Galatians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Romans, Ephesians, Philippians, Philemon, Colossians, 1 Timothy, Titus, 2 Timothy, and Hebrews) was a tentmaker.
Acts 18:3
After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them. So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers.
I refer to actual historians when dating the OT, not biased websites whose entire purpose is to promote Christianity. Here's some examples:
Well, in my last post I debunked the misconception concerning bias.
Click https://docs.google.com/document/d/10zaZfS82rTLwLBxXIpwOWa8691EPyKyIqvO5NN1zYa4/edit
But where in those links does it support your assertion that,
Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
…The consensus among historians is that the OT was written between 6th and 2nd centuries BC….