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Bronze-age mythology7/14/2023 ![]() Ignoring the whole problem of there being no evidence for the exodus story, we can say that given a range of anywhere from 950BCE to 500BCE actually places the writing of the stories in the Iron Age. ![]() Though some scholars would claim a composite authorship for these books starting around 950 BC with them reaching their final form during the time of Ezra around 500 BC, I would take a more conservative position and argue for a unitary authorship within fifty years of the Exodus (which would date from either around 1290 BC or 1440 BC that is another whole area of controversy), with much of the material coming from Moses himself No: According to the Quartz Hill School of Theology (I will give leeway to the obvious bias in the site, however the dates seem to align with other scholarly sites in my emphasis):
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