[b-hebrew] Many scholars accept the documentary sources

LM Barre l_barre at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 5 18:49:31 EST 2009


We do not live in a magic universe with supernatural evens occurring as in biblical times.  Or as Bultmann said of NT cosmology, we do not live in a three story universe.  We need to demythologize.

 
Lloyd Barré
 
 

--- On Wed, 2/4/09, TedBro at aol.com <TedBro at aol.com> wrote:

From: TedBro at aol.com <TedBro at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Many scholars accept the documentary sources
To: l_barre at yahoo.com, b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 11:42 PM



Hi, All:
 
To supplement Lloyd's comments... It seems clear to me that everyone accepts the idea that certain Biblical books contains multiple sources and were edited / redacted. Who would doubt multiple sources for Kings, Chronicles or Psalms? Logically, no one could have been eyewitness to all the events of Genesis. Even excluding chapters 1-11, Genesis covers three generations and must have either oral tradition or written sources, even if set down word for word by Moses. 
 
On the other hand, I suppose one could contend that God inspired Moses with supernatural knowledge of the doings of Abraham, Issac, Jacob and Joseph that he otherwise would have known nothing about, but then could not God have inspired Ezra to that same end? Since Ezra is viewed, even by the most conservative minded, as an inspired author, how is faith threatened by viewing Ezra putting final touches on the Pentateuch?
 
Cheers,
Ted Brownstein

In a message dated 2/4/2009 5:56:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, l_barre at yahoo.com writes:
I agree.  There is no reason why someone can accept the documentary hypothesis and yet be religiously conservative.  Cannot God inspire a critically understood Bible?

 
Lloyd Barré
http://freewebs.com/lmbarre
 



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