The Old Testament Genesis

This is a Biblical archaeology article focused on why, in my investigative opinion, the old testament was written in 200 BCE by the Phoenician Jews in Alexandria, shorty after Alexander the Great, who was a student of Aristotle < Plato < Herodotus school of teaching, has established it and its famous library, and why the old Greek language manuscripts are actually older and more original than their Hebrew counterparts. It is rather a fascinating research currently coming from the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Theology, The Department of Biblical Exegesis, home of the "Copenhagen School for the Study of the Old Testament."*0

However mainstream the university academia is, these radical theories are entertained only by 1% of the academia, with the university of Copenhagen being the only place publishing on this matter, to my knowledge, although it is a relatively recent determination, so it may still gain prominence in the future. 

The style of the OT writing is resembling the scientific prose of story telling, which would include the alternative routes of the plot or mentioning the contradictory facts, classically attributed to Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC)*1, who was by then familiar with the Pythagoras' (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)*2 various radical ideas, as a departure from Homeric traditions of myths and epic legends of heroes and gods. 

Hence Herodotus is distinguished as "the Father of History," his way of story telling, more focused on the events and facts described in the sociopolitical, down to earth, perspective, devoid of the speculative embellishments and the religious rhetoric.

Later yet, the Plato (c. 428/427 or c. 424/423 – c. 348/347 BC)*3 writes his famous "The Republic," around 380 BCE, "concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man."*4

Thus, it should not come as a surprise that by the time of the OT writing in 200 BCE Alexandria, the resulting work not only resembles the classical Herodotus method of narrative, which is retelling the ancient by then and often conflicting collection of stories and histories that have survived usually by way of the oral tradition, something that was the latest developments in the science of the record keeping, but also the OT has dozens and dozens, over fifty parallels with the Plato's Republic, which is anything but coincidence. 

Therefor, it would make sense that the Phoenician Jews who were set at task to organize their old and scattered all over the ancient world society have utilized the latest technology from Greece of the popular story telling along with the deep philosophical reasoning, as the foundations upon which a lasting culture can be established, which in turn gave rise to the many great civilizations of the past and the present.

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*0 - http://teol.ku.dk/english/dept/abe/research/
*1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus
*2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
*3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
*4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)

As a side note, according to this timeline, soon after the OT was written in 200 BCE, Claudius Ptolemy wrote his famous Almagest*1 around 160 BCE, where he presents although the traditional geocentric model but with the new ball earth shape ideas, with its origin in the early Hellenistic Alexandria period, starting with Pythagoras, who was frequently visiting Egypt and Greece promoting his ideas and mysteries teaching. 

Later, Plutarch of Athens reestablished the Platonic Academy, and became its leader. "He wrote commentaries on Aristotle and Plato, emphasizing the doctrines which they had in common."*2

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*1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almagest
*2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch_of_Athens