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。

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