In the wake of my earlier post on the Law of Moses, where Milgrom's essay puts forth the issue of disagreements within the contents of the Torah and introduces the idea of later appliaction or adaptation of the Torah, I thought it would be good to survey where the...
Jacob Milgrom
The Law of Moses – Whatever That Means
Our first topic of the year is one that I have been asked about, directly or obliquely, a number of times in comments and correspondence: Did Moses write every word (or most of) the Pentateuch (Torah) or are the critics correct that the Pentateuch is essentially a...
ZIBBC: Rest of Volume 1 (Pentateuch)
I'm finishing my comments on volume 1 of Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (ZIBBC). I hope to post once on each of the other four volumes before leaving for the ETS and SBL meetings in mid-November. I was looking for specific items in the treatments...