re: #159 Buck

I like your use of vast majority of biblical scholars right after nit picking my use of the word bible.

Why?

Knowing that the calendar that uses the term year and is 365 days didn’t exist back then, how important is the number 127? Maybe that was just a high number and just really meant he lived a really long time. You know like 11 is in terms of amplifier volume?

So that’s a no, right?

So, how do you separate the ahistorical things related about Abraham from the historical ones?

Which scholars do you think have it right? Can you name anyone?

Most of my information about the historicity of the Bible comes from Professor Robert Alter, of the University of California, Berkeley.

Which sources are you drawing from?