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mei...@erols.com wrote:
> >I'm not inclined to worry too much about "vanishingly small"
> >probabilities. Aren't the names and dates and whatnot of these
> >sages already in the OT in plain text?
> No, these are all people who lived *after* the Torah was written.  I
> am sure this is true no matter whose date is used for the Torah.

Now wait a second. The article at 
http://www.cybermail.net/~codes/genesis.htm says that

"2. Names and designations taken from the Pentateuch are spelled as 
in the original."

I took that to mean that the names are from the Pentateuch. Not from
some later time. Does anyone have the actual list?

> Again, none of the material written after Babylon is involved here, 

I think I pointed out that I know of no evidence that any of this 
material was written before Babylon. If you know of such evidence,
please let us know.

> If you think it was written later, you
> probably think it wasn't dictated by G-d, 

If you are trying to say that my point carries no weight because
I'm just being skeptical, then I think that you are trying to have
it both ways. But you can't go and wave peer reviewed articles 
about, proclaiming that something remarkable was discovered, and 
then complain when someone asks for scientific evidence for one of 
your basic assumptions, that the Pentateuch is much older than 
Ezekial.
-- 
 Helge "Scientific rigor - statistical mortis" Moulding
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