Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

> Try to get sense out of the chronology in the story of the Flood with only
> a single author.
> 
> NPL
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter_kirk AT sil.org [SMTP:peter_kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 16 December, 1999 01:42
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Peter Kirk
> 
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