Which Version of the Bible is the Word of God?

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first please explain why the temple would not have housed copies of the hebrew scriptures

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I keep telling you why. Because it was a burnt-out ruin.

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it was perfectly in tact up until 70CE

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And Josephus was writing about the situation c100CE (your date).So the Temple was a burnt-out ruin at the time he wrote.

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he wrote many writings about the history of the jews

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historians, as i said earlier, write 'history'

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Contra Apion is an apologetic work rather than a history.

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BTW, Josephus's 'day' spanned his whole lifetime...not just the later years of his life when he wrote most of his writings.

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Which does not in any way change the date when Contra Apion was written, nor change the fact that the passage in question is about the situation as it was then - not as it wasmore then twenty years earlier.