டெக்ஸாஸ் கிறிஸ்துவப் பல்கலைக் கழக ஆராய்ச்சி பைபிளியல் நூல்- க்ரேக்க புனையல்களின் அடிப்படையில், மோசே எழுதியதான சட்டங்கள் உண்மையில் பொ.மு. 300 - 200 வாக்கில் புனையப் பட்டது எனத் தெளிவாக காட்டுகின்றது.
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch. By RUSSELL E. GMIRKIN.
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch.By Russell E. Gmirkin. . Pp. xii + 332. (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 433; Copenhagen International Series, 15.) New York and London: T & T Clark, 2006. ISBN 978 0 567 02592 0. £75
AS the title of this book suggests, the author argues for the thesis that the Pentateuch was produced in Egypt under the influence of the two Hellenistic historians, Berossus (in Genesis) and Manetho (in Exodus). It was composed in Hebrew with a Greek translation by the same group of scholars at virtually the same time, in 273–2 BCE. Such a daring claim is based upon the principle that the oldest confirmed date for the existence of the Pentateuch is in the account of the Septuagint translation in the Letter of Aristeas, c.273–2 BCE, and that parts of the Pentateuch depended upon the works of Berossus and Manetho and must therefore be dated later than both. Thus, it was written all at one time by a group of bilingual Jewish research scholars, working within the confines of the Museum and Library of Alexandria under the patronage of Ptolemy II.
The bulk of Gmirkin's book is taken up with the demonstration that parts of the primeval history of Genesis 1–11 are dependent upon Berossus and not on any earlier version of Babylonian traditions, as many scholars …