It is also the case that "The Hands that Wrote the Bible" project, using C14, and paleography (and AI?) has, so far, preliminarily indicated that some Qumran mss are older than had previously been estimated.
That, plus the variants in the mss taking time to develop suggest that announcing a 272 terminus is premature.
It is also the case that "The Hands that Wrote the Bible" project, using C14, and paleography (and AI?) has, so far, preliminarily indicated that some Qumran mss are older than had previously been estimated.
That, plus the variants in the mss taking time to develop suggest that announcing a 272 terminus is premature.