when were the 10 commandments given to the israelites
Ten Commandments If the Ten Commandments are based on Hittite forms, it would date them to somewhere between the 14th-12th century BCE.[125] Archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman argue that "the astonishing composition came together â€¦ in the seventh century BCE".[126] Critical scholar Yehezkel Kaufmann (1960) dates the oral form of the covenant to the time of Josiah.[127] An even later date (after 586 BCE) is suggested by David H. Aaron.[128]