In my previous post on JEDP I said this post would be my last on that topic. In the intervening days I told someone in the comments page that I would add a post to the topic – the best example I can think of for changes made in OT law between Exodus and Deuteronomy....
JEDP/Documentary Hypothesis
Mosaic Authorship of the Torah: Problems with the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP), Part 3
I’m thinking this will be my next-to-last post on JEDP. The topic has not generated much discussion, so I’m going to move on. Can’t say I’m surprised. I’m not all that interested in composition of the Pentateuch myself. Toward the end...
Mosaic Authorship of the Torah: Problems with the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP), Part 2
I am presuming that most of you have given Friedman’s Chapter 2 (from Who Wrote the Bible?)Â a read-through by now. I wanted to post a couple quick thoughts on why his description, though accurately describing the theory, actually makes me suspicious of the...
Mosaic Authorship of the Torah: Problems with the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP), Part 1
In my last several posts on this topic, I have tried to demonstrate via the data of the text of the Hebrew Bible why it is reasonable to argue (from the text) that Moses did not write all or perhaps even most of the Pentateuch (Torah). I have made it clear, though,...
The Law of Moses: Does It Read Like Moses Wrote It? Part 2
In my last post on the Mosaic authorship issue , my goal was to produce data from the text that explains why the idea that Moses may not have written all or even most of the Pentateuch could be coherent. I haven’t laid out my thoughts on Mosaic authorship yet;...
The Law of Moses: Does it Read Like Moses Wrote It?
[ Note : In the last post I presumed this post would be about the New Testament; I’m putting that off just a bit. For the first two posts on this topic, see here and here .] In my last post concerning the authorship of the Pentateuch, I listed two observations...
The Law of Moses: A Brief Survey of the Scriptural Use of the Phrase
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 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...
Is Zecharia Sitchin Anti-Semitic?
I don’t believe so (Sitchin is Jewish). That said, it seems Sitchin and his followers don’t realize how his ideas open themselves to that charge. How? Aside from pure imagination, a lot of Sitchin’s ideas presuppose a dependence of the Hebrew Bible...
ET Gods in the Garden of Eden?
I thought I’d share a recent email I received from someone with a question about a new book that claims that one version (source) of the book of Genesis teaches readers that humankind was created by a group of gods: >> Hello Michael, I was talking with...