[b-hebrew] A different generation of biblical scholarship

LM Barre l_barre at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 16:53:40 EST 2009


Evidence?


 
Lloyd Barré
 
 

--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A different generation of biblical scholarship
To: l_barre at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 5:11 AM



Shalom Lloyd;
 
I forgot, I tend to go by writing styles, linguistics, when I look at the Torah, and I strongly think that Sefer ha-Torah, Sefer Yohoshu'a, and Sefer 'Iyyov, were all written by one-to-two hands, as far as writing style is concerned.
 
Yohanan bin-Dawidh


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:37 PM, LM Barre <l_barre at yahoo.com> wrote:








 
Lloyd Barré
 
 

--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh at gmail..com>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A different generation of biblical scholarship
To: l_barre at yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 11:52 PM



Shalom Lloyd;
 
I see some merit in the idea of the Documentary Hypothesis; however, it does have it faults, and Karl does make a valid point, where are the source documents?
 
You may find the beginning of P in Geness 1:1-2:3b.  Next comes J with the story of Eden.  J is found in the Kenite genealogy and P is then found in Genesis 5.  J and P are edited together in the flood story and so on.  Have you looked at the theory first hand?
 
This is why such is merely a Hypothesis, and not a fact, because there is no 100% certifiable proof to the claim.
 
Certitude is not possible with an inductive methods.  The thesis is probable with no competing thesis.
 
 This does not mean that the claim is not the truth, but it also does not mean that the claim is the truth, it means exactly as stated, there is not enough proof to prove such either way. 
 
You are speaking for yourself.  I have quite satisfied that we have sources as many others are.
 
As to reading the New Jerusalem Bible, Karl only reads the Torah in Hebrew, so giving him an English translation to read to prove your claims is a tad asonine. As to Richard Friedman, I have read his text myself, and do not agree with him.
 
Why not?
 
My personal theory, which I likewise cannot prove, but have my reasons for thinking is correct, thanks to years of study,  is that Mosheh wrote the entire legal code that is contained within the Humash, and that this legal code is the actual Torah, the Torah that Yohoshu'a bin-Nun speaks about when he writes that Mosheh wrote down all of the Torah.
 
You think that Moses wrote the Pentateuch?  Why?  The reading is uncritical.
 
 The story written around this legal code is a collection of writings written by Mosheh, Yohoshu'a bin-Nun, and people that came before them, all compiled into what we now refer to as the Torah by the hand of Yohoshu'a bin-Nun, and Eli'azar.
 
Why do you think Joshua compiled the Torah?
 
 I do not hold to the idea that Ez'ra was the Redactor, and that parts of the Torah were not written down to the time of Yoshiyahu as so-called mainstream scholarship denotes, but at the same time, I do not hold to the notion that Mosheh wrote the entire Torah as we have it now by himself.
 
Do you have any reasons for your conclusions?
 
Yohanan bin-Dawidh



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