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Religious people believe that secular Biblical Criticism often makes efforts to assign a late date for as many books as possible in the Hebrew Bible. Whether or not this is done sincerely, it has the effect of minimizing the reliability of these books. For example, if Genesis had been written by postulated authors from the JEPD hypothesis, it would mean that Genesis' traditional date is wrong, that its writers were to us anonymous and not Moses, and (likely, or possibly) that it was not written through prophecy at God's dictation. Instead of being known as perfectly accurate and godly, it might be seen as not much different than any other ancient non-Hebrew text. This, to the believer, is a grievous error.

Interestingly, it was once theorized that writing didn't exist in Moses' time. Then, based upon archaeological proofs, scholars were compelled to retract that theory.

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