Now we're talking.
Here we go.
Wrong.
The oldest Biblical manuscript we currently have is the Nash Papyrus. It dates to the 2nd Century BCE. This means that Biblical manuscripts range to a maximum of 2, 250 years ago, which isn't even half of what you contend.
Your claim of 5, 000 years ago would place earliest manuscripts in the the Year 3000 BCE. The earliest text from this period is the Kish Tablet, Mesopotamian Cuneiform on limestone.
Reference > https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-OR-00233/1
Wrong.
The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise a collection of works spanning 400 years from the 3rd Century BCE to the 1st Century CE.
Reference > https://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/shrine-book/dead-sea-scrolls
Wrong.
Philosophy is not fact.
Wrong.
I never claimed research into the Bible as being non credible or unscientific. Such a proposition makes no sense.
Strawman argument and Ad Hominem attack and therefore irrelevant.
You're allowed a wank break I guess.
So is this a no?
Stop talking shit, name your subject and question and let's go.
My qualifications and experience are irrelevant here and I don't need to trumpet them to walk around with a hard on.
Your sidestepping speaks for itself - answer my question >
Name and reference the Bronze Age Bibilical manuscripts you mentioned.
More Strawman Arguments. Please try to stay on track.
I'm doing that now, fool.
Sure - the polytheistic Shasu and Canaanite religions which date back to around 3000 BCE, or a little bit earlier at the most.
This was absorbed into early Hebrew Yahwism, which presents multiple divinities known as Elohim in Genesis 6:2, of which YHWH was just one, who first presented himself to Moses who lived around 1300 BCE.
There's also references to other Arabian clans worshiping Yahweh from around the same time, or a hundred years earlier from Egypt at the time.
Reference > https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7rqr7 (Siversten)
Wrong.
See above. It's well established that Judaism combined Babylonian and Sumerian traditions with the Canaanite worship of YHWH, as far back as 2000BCE culminating in the first records of the Torah by 300 BCE.
There's even suggestions that YHWH was divinity linked to metallurgy, which would make sense given the technological transition from Bronze to Iron Age.
Reference > https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology...w-theory/0000017f-dc86-d3ff-a7ff-fda6aa390000
This just resembles drunken ranting. The kind of stuff you hear crazy people yelling out in train stations. Not worth responding to.
Your turn.