Biblical Hebrew Forum

[nick osen <osennick AT yahoo.com>]

---Loren Crow <lorencrow AT earthling.net> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't say it's unsupported in the academy.  Almost all of us
*assume*
> that some sort of editing process took place behind the text of the
> Pentateuch.  Many of us are somewhat wary of any specific proposal
as to
> how that was done.  But the basic Wellhausenian idea of explaining the
> present state of the text by means of redaction criticism is, it
seems to
> me, alive and well.  There remains much controversy about niggling
points,
> like the dating and character of JE, whether P was an author or a
redactor,
> and so on.  Still, it is very much the _communis opinio_ that such a
> process lies behind the text, and most Pentateuch scholars assume
(and want
> to move beyond) that the basic identifications of who (in the sense of
> which group) wrote what are probably fairly accurate.

I am under the impression that Wellhuasen's divisions of JEDP are now
seen as an over simplification of the issues involved. However, that
there is different authorship and schools of authors in the HB is of
course widely accepted. The debate has now moved into the area of fine
tuning Wellhausen's 'documnentary hypothesis'.

Nick 

At 7:00 PM 1/15/99, Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG wrote:
> >I recently ducked a question about why I reject Wellhausen type
source
> >criticism. Maybe because I am not alone...
> >
> >>From a private report about a recent OT conference in Oslo:
> >
> >"The new atmosphere was noticed by some participants; JEDP theory was
> >not mentioned almost at all in this conference.  Most scholars in OT
> >conference do not support this theory these days."
> >
> >Would anyone like to comment? What was this conference, anyway?
> >
> >Peter Kirk
> >
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