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Why Moses and David didn't write the Bible
Hebrew writing didn't exist in their time. The oldest Hebrew inscriptions date to the late tenth or early ninth century BCE.
No alphabet, no authors.
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That's why the oldest written sources mentioning Israel are Egyptian and Akkadian rather than Hebrew. Hebrew writing grows steadily from the mid-ninth century and peaks in the seventh, as literacy among elites rose.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 66–71
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