These anachronisms and confused chronologies in the patriarchal stories are the rule rather than the exception in their view, and they are evidence of a very late date of composition.

在他们看来，这些年代错误和混乱的时间线,在族长故事中是普遍现象而不是例外，明显是十分近代的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

All right,there's somebody who comes along and says, Oh,I need to get to a date.I'm going to be late.

可能有人过来说，我有一个约会，我要迟到了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I've given you the periods at the top of the chart: early Bronze Age; middle Bronze Age from about 2100 to 1550; we date the late Bronze age from about 1550 until 1200--the introduction of iron and the beginning of the Iron Age in 1200. Prior to that, the Bronze Age, which is divided into these three periods.

我在这个表格的顶端给你们列了一些时期：,早期青铜时代；中期青铜时代，从约公元前2100年到前1550年；,晚期青铜时代，从公元前1550年到前1200年，即铁器时代前页；,然后公元前1200年开始了铁器时代，在那以前，青铜时代分为那样三个时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选