How could the problems of oral transmission apply to a document that is not the product of oral tradition? So, yes, your Constitution is exempt because it was written down and signed, and the original is still available for comparison.
Then the idea of the book of Numbers getting Arab phoned can take a hike.
Let's say academia's lie is correct; and 20,000 crossed the Red Sea -- (or went around it during sjastro's phantom sand storm that occurred one thousand years prior to Persia's legitimate sand storm).
Then, one hundred years later, retrospective falsification sets in and they start claiming it was 30,000 that escaped from Egypt.
Any priest could simply go to the book of Numbers, housed in the Temple, and look up the correct number and make the person or persons claiming it was 30,000 recant.
Neogaia says his article says 20,000.
And when I asked him if said article specified how many from each of the tribes -- (like the Bible does) -- he said it does.
And I'm having a hard time believing that.
But even if the article does, then the article not only Arab Phones the total from 603,550 to 20,000; but the article Arab Phones each of the twelve tribes total numbers as well.
And this is exactly the kind of shenanigans I'm talking about, when I say academia will chisel, force-fit, move the decimal place, and/or do anything it can to make their ideas fit.
In this case, I think it's called
number crunching.