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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Or more to the fact, "things that aren't exactly true."
While there very well may be brief selections of the Hebrew Bible that date to before 1000 B.C.E.—and here I am thinking most explicitly of the the "Song of the Sea in Exodus 15, the "Song of Deborah" in Judges 5, and perhaps even the "Song of Moses" in Deut 32—the fact is that the texts that form the Old Testament as we currently have it were probably compiled after the Babylonian Exile in 587 B.C.E. This is not something that is especially speculative, as studies of ancient Hebrew bear out fairly clearly that the language throughout 80–90% of the OT dates to this period. The "1600 years and 40 authors" line is a well worn bit of fundamentalist apologetics that is more fiction than reality.
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Thought you would chime in with a little more of your unbelief?
Without other Hebrew texts of the same dating to compare it would be irresponsible to conclude that these books lie about who and when they were written. You don't have that. You have theories that you chose to hold as facts.