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    It is not the case that It is not that one example of evidence is enough to claim that ECT was widely accepted by intertestamental Jews

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    • 1.Widespread belief requires multiple independent attestations across diverse Jewish sources and communities, not isolated textual references.
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    • 2.Single examples risk overrepresenting minority views or scribal interpolations as representative of broader intertestamental Jewish thought.
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    • 3.Silence or absence of ECT references in major Jewish texts suggests it was not a dominant or universally accepted doctrine during this period.
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