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  • From: Walter Mattfeld <mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Hellenistic OT & Scholarly researchers
  • Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:46:04 +0100


A request for names of individuals who are of the persuasion that the OT
might be
Hellenistic creation, and who have written articles or books on the subject
was recently
made to this list by Mr. Litwak (28 Feb. 99). I would like to take this
opportunity to
call to everyone's attention the work currently being undertaken on this
controversial
subject:

From Copenhagen University, Denmark : Drs. Frederic Cryer, Thomas L.
Thompson, and Neils
Peter Lemche.

"The Old Testament- A Hellenistic Book ?" Scandinavian Journal of the Old
Testament
(SJOT), Vol. 7.2, 1993, pp.163-193 by N.P. Lemche.

Thomas M. Bolin, "When the End is the Beginning- The Persian Period and the
Origins of
Biblical Tradition," SJOT, Vol. 10.1.

Dr. Diana Vikander Edelman of James Madison Univerity, VA., has edited a book
in which
various authors discuss possible Hellenistic influences on the OT, see The
Triumph of
Elohim, From Yahwisms to Judaisms, W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids,
Michigan, 1996.

Dr. Philip R. Davies is of the persuasion that there may be Hasmonean
redactions in
Genesis. See
P.R. Davies, In Search of Ancient Israel, Sheffield University Academic
Press, 1992,
1995.

Herodian elements within the OT:

Dr. Bernd Joerg Diebner ( of Heidelberg University, Germany) is an editor of
the
Dielheim Blatter (DBAT), a bi-annual Journal of Biblical Studies (since
1972), in which
a number of articles have appeared from time to time on Herodian elements
within the OT
by various European scholars. Dr. Diebner has several articles on possible
Herodian
elements in the OT and has given lectures on the subject. He is in contact
with scholars
in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, all
pursuing Herodian
elements.

Respectfully submitted,

Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld
Walldorf by Heidelberg,
Baden-Wurttemburg,
Germany

P.S.,
My own personal research suggests that the OT is at earliest, a 3rd century
BCE
creation, having identified Stoical and Epicurean elements within it as well
as positing
that Bersossos' Babylonaica (circa 275 BCE) was "mined" for motifs used in
Genesis.
Please see my recent offering to this list of Smoking Guns, Clues to the OT's
Hellenistic, Hasmonean, and Herodian Origins, Heidelberg, 1998, available
upon request
as an e-mail attachment. Please send requests to my e-mail address, not to
b-hebrew:

mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com




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