Reply #13: Not to mention that the Hebrew method of telling the story

[ChairmanAgnostic]

was initially by oral tradition.

Of course, any language or proto-language, without vowels, punctuation or telling you where one sentence ends and another begins can never be misconstrued or miscommunicated.

Reminds me of that joke. around 500 AD, the monk is asked why the trainees were being forced to make copies of copies?
"It is god's will."
How do we know it is accurate, he is asked.
"Because it . . . hmmm." He goes and checks the original text.

The next day, they find him with the original bible, as he rocks back and forth in the dimly lit corner, crying his eyes out.
What is it, Mr. Monk?
"The word was spelled C E L E B R A T E"