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To: donmeaker
My personal view is the first book of the law to be written was Deuteronomy, during the reign of King Josiah. The "history of the Jews" was later expanded after that, to Samuel, then to Judges and later to the Occupation narratives, and then to the Exodus.

This is contrary to immemorial Jewish Tradition, which holds that the Torah preexisted the world and was dictated to Moses letter-for-letter, who wrote it down.

6 posted on 05/28/2006 5:56:26 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Barukh Kevod HaShem mimMeqomo!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I wonder why the Torah would reference fins, if before the world that fish didn't exist, or why the Torah would reference split hooves, if pigs didn't exist?

It seems to me to encapsulate a lot of good advice, if you are in a stone age culture.


15 posted on 06/02/2006 7:34:33 PM PDT by Donald Meaker (Brother, can you Paradigm?)
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