He also notes that some of the material in the patriarchal stories would be offensive to later religious sensibilities.

他还指出族长故事里的一些素材,是冒犯后来的宗教敏感性的。

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It's very common to find stories of the extraordinary events that surround the birth of someone who will later become great: Cyrus of Persia, Oedipus, Jesus, and so on.

经常有关于非同寻常事件的故事,围绕着那些后来很伟大的人们的出生：,如波斯的赛勒斯，俄狄浦斯，耶酥等等。

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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Then on the other hand, at the other extreme, you have scholars who see the patriarchal stories as entirely fabricated retrojections of a much later age. And they vary significantly as to when they think these stories were written: anywhere from the period of the monarchy all the way down to the fourth century, some of them.

另一方面又是另一个极端，有学者认为族长故事完全是后世编造的,这样一来，对这些故事是什么时候写的,也有巨大的分歧：,其中一些人认为是在从君主制时期,到公元4世纪之间的某段时候。

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