"Current consensus" means that the prejudices of the scholars are on exhibit. Example: Before the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered "scholars" contended that Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther & Daniel were written after the return of the Jews to the land, and after the time of the Maccabean overthrow of Antiochus Epiphanes. The Dead Sea Scroll discoveries FORCED the "scholars" to move the writing of Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther back several hundred years. The same evidence should have moved the date for the writing of Daniel back the same amount. Why didn't they? Answer: Because then Daniel would have been a true prophet and NO amount of evidence could be allowed to do that.
