people keep asking for 'evidence' and when a thread was started in another forum, it reminded me of one of the biggest secualr debacles of all time.
for centuries, secularists have been pointing to the mentioning of the hittites in the Bible as proof that the Bible was in error. In fact for about 1800 years, the Bible was THE ONLY source for a people known by that name.
Then one day, someone made a discovery and the Bible was vindicated and proven accurate, true once again. Just because the secular world does nbot get the evidence they seek. does it mean that the event did not take place as described b=in the Bible.
another case in point, K.A.Kitchen, a well respected egyptologist and christian, proved beyond doubt that the slave price for joseph was the exact figure that was paid for slaves in that time period.
showing that they bible could not have been written in the 5th or 6th centuries b.c as the price for slaves was much higher at that time and without extremely good historical records, such a figure would have been unknown at the time.
One thing must be remembered is that the people who advocate a late writing of the Old Testament cannot provide one shred of credible nor actual evidence to prove theirpoint. it is all conjecture with nosubstance.
I have quoted an article many times before from the book Mesopotamia and the Bible, edited by chavalas and younger from the article Syro-Mesopotamia: The Old Babylonian Period, by ronald veenker pg. 163 showing that the reputation of copying lays with the babylonians not the israelites.
not one scholar i have read has been able to show any copying done by the israelites and no one even hints that they even had such a reputation.
{ if anyone wants to discuss or rebut, i do not accept people's word or hearsay evidence and they better include credible references as i have done.}.
The christian world comes up with the evidence it is the secular world that likes to dismiss without consideration.