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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (39258)	5/7/2006 6:19:44 PM
From: tlaG nhoJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

"The profession of scribe was the way of preserving ancient manuscripts because they wore out. There may not be surviving manuscripts from the time of Moses or Joshua that date back many thousands of years." Sidney, there are no such surviving manuscripts. There are, however, fragments that rather than connect to the septuagint, can more easily be explained by inventories and travelogues. "Because they wear out and have to be replaced by the scribes. All hand written. The technique of the scribe was to copy exactly the previous manuscript as a replacement." Again, the long tradition of the Torah was to ban anything in writing. This has the effect of not committing oneself to the bullshit. Ingenious! "The known surviving manuscripts may date as you said and have been translated into Greek. But it does not mean there was not an ancient written Hebrew Torah." Nothing was translated, Sidney. The Greek manuscripts were originals. There was nothing written that was translated. What was translated 'allegedly' was from 'oral tradition' and that, my friend, does not qualify as a valid translation. And no it does not mean there was no ancient written Hebrew Torah. But the earliest known of such contributions are documented at around 1000 CE. And because we cannot prove there are no earlier documents does not mean they exist. Your kind of thinking exemplifies the difference between a scientist and a cave dweller.