When an academic study earlier this year applied artificial intelligence to the science of Biblical manuscript dating, mainstream media reported it as a curious development. But what many missed at the time was how the new AI technique might lend unexpected credence to Biblical apologetics.When I first noted the reports of the redating of some Dead Sea Scrolls, notably 4QDanielc (4Q114), by the "Enoch" AI, I commented, "I can't wait to see how this will be deployed by the early daters of the Book of Daniel." And so we have it deployed in this article.
I have further discussion of the AI redating here and here.
For more detailed comments defending the late dating of the Book of Daniel, see here, here, and here.
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