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Certainly. Here are a few I can think of (sorry, trying to put together as much as I can so may have missed some items): On how the mechanics of different narrative voices and editorial layers show a compilation over centuries rather than a single author, see Baden's breakdown of Pentateuchal source criticism The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing a Demonstration (2010). In his book The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions, Jed Wyrick traces how Jewish and Christian ideas of authorship borrowed from Hellenistic literary criticism. He argues that the Greek obsession with establishing authentic texts for single figures like Homer served as the precise model for Jewish intellectuals looking to unify the Torah under Moses. On why mainstream archaeological and historical-critical scholars reject the extreme view that the biblical accounts were a late, fictional fabrication of the Persian or Hellenistic eras, see Dever’s evaluation of Israel's early historical reality in Beyond the Texts: An Archaeological Portrait of Ancient Israel and Judah (2017). On the archaeological, cultural, and geographic evidence supporting an authentic, early historical kernel of memory dating to the New Kingdom and Late Bronze Age, see Hoffmeier's analysis: Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition (1997). On how the exact structural components of the biblical covenants match the specific sequence found in 14th- and 13th-century BCE Hittite vassal treaties, see Mendenhall's comparative work: Law and Covenant in Israel and the Ancient Near East (1955). On the evolution of ancient Near Eastern treaty structures (how Iron Age Neo-Assyrian treaties dropped the historical prologue) proving a later scribe could not reverse-engineer the 13th-century BCE format, see Kitchen's extensive tables and data: On the Reliability of the Old Testament (2003) On the statistical philological analysis demonstrating that Egyptian loanwords account for exactly 1.86% of the distinct vocabulary words in the Book of Exodus, see Noonan's quantitative study Egyptian Loanwords as Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Narrative (2016). On the exact technical terms used for Delta topography, Egyptian court protocols, and wilderness materials that only make sense within a New Kingdom context, see Noonan's specialised linguistic lexicon Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact (2019). For the etymology of kappōret as an Egyptian loanword for a physical canopy or cover (kꜣp), the 1279 to 1077 BCE historical ceiling and dating for this specific vocabulary, and the phonological retention of the final -t suffix as a linguistic timestamp, see Hemmings' and Isaacs' paper The Mercy Seat and the Ark of the Testimony: An Age-Old Misnomer (2023). For the broader historical sound laws governing how Egyptian nouns transitioned over time: See Yoshiyuki Muchiki's Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic (1999).