re: #108 Buck

You think they wrote down what they were making up at the time? Or did they learn it orally, handed down for centuries. Was kashruth practised only after “the guys” wrote it?

Isn’t that what I wrote? Yes, the Pentateuch’s numerous authors very likely did not invent the core of the dietary laws, but rather wrote down the rules that already existed in oral form (perhaps discarding some, adding some, modifying some).