Constant Mews
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| Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Oct. 27 2009,19:12) | | Quote (FloydLee @ Oct. 27 2009,17:58) | | Quote | | In the middle of the 6th century BCE a new author sat down to improve the works of the Yahwist. This author is called the Elohist. He used the Yahwist’s works as his foundation, but made additions and deletions and reworked the text to better conform to more ‘modern’ thinking. |
This is part of what is known as the Documentary Hypothesis. Long story short, the Documentary Hypothesis is wrong. Dead Meato.
(And just to make sure it STAYS dead, here are some extra nails for its coffin!!)
http://www.carm.org/christi....-theory
http://www.carm.org/christi....othesis
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/dochypo.html |
The Documentary Hypothesis has garnered criticism on relying too specifically on inconsistency in redactors and consistency in sources. I see no indication that serious modern work on the linguistic analysis of the Pentateuch that would ascribe all of it to a single author, or that would identify that author as Moses. The DH in all its details may not be currently ascribed to by a preponderance of scholars, but the cat's out of the bag so far as the Pentateuch being a pastiche of different authors writing at different times.
Of the three links provided by FL, the first simply describes the DH, and the other two offer only straight-up denial as reasons to return to the earlier, simpler view of Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. |
So far as I can see, none of FL's citations actually support his case. This is why I am beginning to wonder about some form of learning disorder; his reasoning abilities are seriously impaired.
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