Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

I wasn't following all the posts in order today, because I had to go 
out all morning, it is Shabbat in only 3 hours, and I have been 
rushing

Didn't mean to address this to any one particular person.

shoshanna




Not all the words attributed to me below
were made by me.
I was responding to a post by Rolf.
The differences were lost when the switch
was made from Rich Text to Plain Text.
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shoshanna Walker [mailto:rosewalk AT concentric.net]
> Sent: Fri, January 25, 2002 12:51 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: ONE AUTHOR Monotheism was: "admittedly syncretistic..
>
>
> There was a computer research done in Israel, a few years ago, and it
> found that all five books  of the Torah were written by the same
> author, and that the differences in style were differences in the
> style of one single author.  I don't know all the details, I will
> probably have to inquire, and look it up.
>
> Shoshanna
>
>
>
>
>
> It seems to me that something like a dogmatic religion has been built
> up around modern critical scholarship. Noth's theory of a
> deuteronomistic history etc and many other speculative hypotheses
> have almost been elevated to data, while the truth is that hard facts
> regarding when the different books were written and who were the
> writers are completely lacking. For instance,in my linguistic
> analysis of the participles of the Tanach I found a use which was
> uniform throughout the book of Isaiah but almost non-existent in
> other books. I will not say that this proves that there was one
> author of the books, but the evidence for two or three authors is
> very weak indeed.
>
> P eople do now argue for one author of the book of Isaiah but they
> place him in the fifth century.
>
>
>
> As to my position, I am very positive to the text of the Hebrew
> documents, because of all the single data I have found to be of a
> higher quality that that of contemporaneous documents. It is my
> impression that the concept of God in the Tanach is sublime and
> elevated, in stark contrast to that of other nations around. Your
> interpretations regarding the divine suzerain and polytheism are
> possible but hardly the only alternative. I see no conflict between
> Isaiah 41-- and Exodus 20 because the subject is addressed from
> different angles. Isaiah does not deny the existence of the $EDIM,
> but he points out to those who think that carved images have
> intrinsic life and power that this is a false view. And similarly,
> the writer of Exodus does not say that the carved images have life
> and power. In view of the sublime descriptions of the one Creator I
> take the implication of the writer of Exodus of other living gods to
> refer to the $EDIM.
>
>
> I suggest that you have a view of the god of the HB that is colored
> by Christian and
> Hellenistic conceptions. I suggest, respectfully, that you are
> falling into the trap
> that many fall into, and you are not reading the text that is
> printed, but the text that is
> in your head. I give a lecture called "What does God Look Like ? the
> view from the
> Bible." It sure does wake people up to the text.
>
> Best,
> Liz Fried
>
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