Note 347 — Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.
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Movers (Phönicier, ii. 3), quoted by Dr. Evans (Bronze, &c. 5), finds bronze (copper?) 44 and iron 13 times in the Pentateuch, and he theorises upon the later introduction of the latter. But when was the Pentateuch written in its present form?