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Who are these MOST Mainstream Bible Scholars please?
Who and how did someone calculated this please? Do we have sources and citation please?
By doing so, are we recommending people about what to believe and what not?
Also,
Why can't we say what's Christian's belief of the book of Genesis? - Common... it's a Christian Book and not Mainstream Scholars Book!
Praveen.arokyaswamy (
talk) 03:30, 1 May 2023 (UTC)reply
POV-pushing for your own religion (which does not seem to be mainstream Christianity, but fundamentalist Christianity) is very much not appreciated as a matter of website policy, see
WP:RNPOV.
Yup, many Christians don't know there is such a thing as
liberal Christianity, but if forced to choose camps, most Christians in the world would choose its camp.
You can fool yourself that I'm the Big Bad Wolf who ruins everything Christian at Wikipedia, or you can accept an explanation which is more compliant with Occam's razor, namely that the powers of
WP:BESTSOURCES are opposing you. In fact, everybody should know that at Wikipedia editors who merely push their own POV are very easy to defeat. Editors who simply push a POV get contained, at a certain point they will rebel against containment measures, so they will misbehave, and they will get blocked and then banned.
tgeorgescu (
talk) 04:24, 1 May 2023 (UTC)reply
"Why can't we say what's Christian's belief of the book of Genesis" Because
Christians are not a reliable source with a reputation for
fact-checking. They are instead known for their belief in
hoaxes.
Dimadick (
talk) 08:43, 1 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I don't think that the article needs the "Title" chapter, as the first paragraph already tells the reader to etmyology of Genesis. Feel free to tell me otherwise.
Firesword9140 (
talk) 01:17, 20 October 2023 (UTC)reply
Yeah, that's totally fine. Thanks for keeping up with these edits and reverting when necessary.
Hist9600 (
talk) 14:24, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you. Another IP, possibly the same person, had added the same information yesterday, and I had to correct it. It seems someone may be actively watching the page to insert these dates.
Ltwin (
talk) 16:33, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Agree, both geolocate to Adelaide, Australia.
tgeorgescu (
talk) 16:55, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Dead Sea study and date of composition
I just noticed and removed the following from the Composition section:
By comparing
Dead Sea level indications in
chapter 14 of Genesis
Amos Frumkin and Yoel Elitzur suggest the composition dating between 1500 and 1200 BC.[1]
After checking the article out, I believe this is a misreading of the article. The study authors were attempting to use biblical evidence to determine historical fluctuations in the Dead Sea levels. I don't think they are making definitive statements about when biblical books were actually composed. I could be wrong, however, so I'm leaving this here for other editors to evaluate.
Ltwin (
talk) 21:51, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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