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“The ancient Israelites were not a people of the book. King David had no Bible. Neither did the prophets. The later tradition that Moses wrote the Bible is not even mentioned in the text,” Mary Joan Winn Leith recently wrote in BR (From Storm to Scroll, BR 18:04).

Ronald Hendel asks, “Does the story [the Exodus] contain real history? Very probably yes, although it’s not easy to pinpoint. The biblical account is a conflation of history and memory—a mixture of truth and fiction” (“Exodus: A Book of Memories,” BR 18:04).

What is the purpose of attacking the veracity of Scriptural statements in most of your articles? Why do you allow, no, select only authors who assume that the Bible is filled with more error than truth? If the Bible is so filled with error, why do you not find another occupation?