Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

> > > From: Dan Wagner [mailto:Dan.Wagner AT datastream.net]
> > >
> > > > 3rd-I doesn't like Cyrus being called the Servant, Messiah, etc.
> > >
> > > OK, this explains my posted question: "[Why would your
> > > "Trito-Isaiah" insert
> > > it, anyway?]." But if you're right, he didn't do a good job
> > > editing the text
> > > of Isa. 45:1 where Cyrus is called God's "messiah."
> > Redactors don't subtract, they just add.
>
> Who imposed that rule upon them? How can we know that?
I learned this in Bible School.

>Are we at
> liberty to
> make them do whatever we want? Why wouldn't they want to subtract to
> accomplish their subtle agenda? What could prevent them?

However, there are a lot of subtractions if you compare Chronicles to Kings.
OTOH, Auld argues there are no subtractions, both the Chronicler and the
DtrH added to a common source each in his own way. I find his arguments
convincing.
>
> (Obviously i don't accept RC, at least not on this kind of a theological
> agenda-based level.)
>
> Dan Wagner
>
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