So Sarna and other scholars hold that the patriarchal traditions are not entirely fabricated retrojections from a later period.

所以Sarna和其他学者相信，族长传统，不完全是后世臆造的产物。

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Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

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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Weijin and Northern and Southern Dynasties is the prosperous period of the patriarchal clan in the Chinese history.

魏晋南北朝时期是中国历史上宗族强盛的时期。

youdao

But in all likelihood Hebrews of an older time, the patriarchal period, the second millennium BCE--they probably weren't markedly different from many of their polytheistic neighbors. Archaeology would suggest that.

但很有可能更早的，西元前2000年族长统治时期的希伯来人，他们可能和其他信仰多神论的异邦人,没有什么太大的不同，这一点考古学会帮我们证明。

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So Sarna and other scholars hold that the patriarchal traditions are not entirely fabricated retrojections from a later period.

所以Sarna和其他学者相信，族长传统,不完全是后世臆造的产物。

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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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