Phillip, you dressed your rather lengthy response up in plenty of fancy terminology, however to an educated reader, you have actually erred on several levels.

First, you cite biblical reference points as if they were first-person accounts. This is an error because by your own admission, the biblical references are "copies of copies" or worse. Let us examine that the books didn't appear until (at least) hundreds of years after the events they claim to report. This means no one writing the book was present at the time of the events documented, and would be relying on oral histories, which are notoriously poor records over time.
Furthermore, you fail to assess the text critically. There are omissions of basic premises that make no sense. 40 years in a desert for a journey that takes 9 days on foot, the lack of mention of animals that weren't immediately apparent to a resident of the Sinai region etc lend to the idea the author was not divinely inspired but was....