Bill Rea bsr15 at exchange.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jan 9 15:24:43 EST 2003


Liz wrote:-

>There was a session at SBL in Toronto on E.
>I was not able to attend, but the upshot was, I think, that
>there was no E. Did anyone on this list attend?
>Who did his document get parceled out to?

Which raises the question, is there anything more to the documentary
hypothesis than fashion? With something as static as the Biblical text
and the need for constant innovation, are scholars just running around
in a circle disproving their elders' theories? When I had to study the
old JEPD theory I thought it had merit. Perhaps it was just wishful
thinking and collective delusion.

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