> Some were written thousands of years before Jesus was on earth (the earliest were written by Moses about 1512 BCE)
The old testament is believed by historians to have been written over a period of time starting a bit more than a thousand years before Jesus. Almost certainly not by Moses. Your main point stands, of course.
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> Some were written thousands of years before Jesus was on earth (the earliest were written by Moses about 1512 BCE)
The old testament is believed by historians to have been written over a period of time starting a bit more than a thousand years before Jesus. Almost certainly not by Moses. Your main point stands, of course.