Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Noel O'Riordan" <nor AT iol.ie>]

Hello Peter

This is a rather simplistic explanation, the fact that the texts are in the
one document is not the equivalent to one author, if they are by one author
then he must have been a schizophrenic.  You may at best postulate one
compiler, you cannot discount the last 100 years because in some circles it
is not in vogue.  the documentary hypothesis is in need of re-evaluation but
the answer does not lie in one author.

As for providing proof, the proof I suggest lies with the non-documentarians
to account for the (for want of a better word) sources of the Pentateuch if
they do not agree with the idea of at least 3 sources (JDP)

The documentary hypothesis still, (although in modified form, the best of
which I can not decide on) provides the best answers.

best regards

Noel O Riordan

----- Original Message -----
From: <peter_kirk AT sil.org>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: 16 December 1999 00:42
Subject: Re: JEDP


> I can offer one which at least has the benefit that there is some
> evidence to support it, in that all texts and versions support it:
> This (and the rest of Genesis) was all written by one author as a
> single composition. At least this, rather than 19th century
> speculations, should be the starting point of our studies as we enter
> the 21st century.
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> I don't mean to say that I am committing myself to this view, but
> rather that I would like to see evidence to the contrary presented
> rather than assumed.
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> Peter Kirk
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> Subject: JEDP
> Author:  <barre AT access1.com> at Internet
> Date:    13/12/1999 22:43
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> Can anyone offer some actual compositional analysis of say Genesis 1-11
that the
> y would
> offer as superior to the Documentary Hypothesis?
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> Thank you.
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