One point: If I am right, the EA-letters includes a couple of references to the name of Pharaoh, in the correspondence between Pharaoh and the Babylonian king. Hess' argument is ridiculous.
He should be happy if there was a scholarly consensus of the dating of the sources of the Pentateuch. There is none such consensus today, except in the backwaters of critical scholarship. The debate today centers on either very late 'monarchic' dates (Josiah) or Persian or Hellenistic dates.
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One point: If I am right, the EA-letters includes a couple of references to the name of Pharaoh, in the correspondence between Pharaoh and the Babylonian king. Hess' argument is ridiculous.
He should be happy if there was a scholarly consensus of the dating of the sources of the Pentateuch. There is none such consensus today, except in the backwaters of critical scholarship. The debate today centers on either very late 'monarchic' dates (Josiah) or Persian or Hellenistic dates.