A Revised Date For Pentateuchal Texts? Evidence From Ketef Hinnom -- By: Erik Waaler
Journal: Tyndale Bulletin
Volume: TYNBUL 53:1 (NA 2002)
Article: A Revised Date For Pentateuchal Texts? Evidence From Ketef Hinnom
Author: Erik Waaler
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A Revised Date For Pentateuchal Texts?
Evidence From Ketef Hinnom
Summary
The trend of OT scholarship is to date Pentateuchal texts to exilic or post-exilic times. The silver amulets from Ketef Hinnom may challenge this conclusion. Based on archaeological and palaeographic studies, the amulets are dated between 725 and 650
Some decades ago the Ryland Papyrus sent an earthquake into New Testament research. Before this papyrus was published, several NT scholars dated the Gospel of John to the middle or late second century
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The silver amulets from Ketef Hinnom may pose a similar challenge to some theories concerning the Pentateuch.3 According to Wellhausen, the Pentateuch was written in the period from the 10th to the 5th centuries
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