From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 11/23/2018 8:17 AM, SolomonW wrote:   
   > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:46:12 +0000, Martin Edwards wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/23/2018 3:58 AM, SolomonW wrote:   
   >>> We are not sure of the dating fit in Abraham chronological, although we are   
   >>> not sure of the dating of Abraham so it means if this is true that Abraham   
   >>> lived much earlier then we think.   
   >>>   
   >> Abraham supposedly went to the land of Moriah.  Presumably this is where   
   >> Jerusalem later stood, and the Dome of the Rock was built on that   
   >> assumption.  However there is no mention of a city, and Jerusalem is   
   >> very ancient.   
   >   
   > Not sure what you mean here.   
   >   
   >> If Abraham had lived that long ago, how would later   
   >> people have known about him?   
   >   
   > The same way we do from books. In the biblical story it is clear that   
   > Abraham is literate.   
   >   
   It says that in the Bible, but how would a nomad herdsman have been   
   literate?   
      
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