"If we think it 's Homer then for this book , that 's good enough . But not so with the Bible . There can be absolutely no kernel of uncertainty , which in ancient texts , ambiguity is unavoidable ."
"It 's not just a kernel of uncertainty . Jews and Christians alike say that Moses wrote the Pentateuch , but a reading of the Pentateuch makes it obvious that this can not be true . Luke did not write the book of Luke , the apostle Matthew did not write the book of Matthew , and we do n't even claim to know the authors of many books of the Bible . Look up the Documentary hypothesis ; early scholars shuffled `` holy writings `` together like a deck of cards to get the Old Testament that everybody today knows and loves ."
"There can be absolutely no kernel of uncertainty , which in ancient texts , ambiguity is unavoidable ."
"It 's not just a kernel of uncertainty . Jews and Christians alike say that Moses wrote the Pentateuch , but a reading of the Pentateuch makes it obvious that this can not be true ."