Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Brian Roberts <formoria AT carolina.rr.com>]

On Saturday, June 5, 2004, at 12:49  PM, George F. Somsel wrote:

(snip)

> I do not intend to belittle those who accept the Bible at its
> face value, but that is not enough.  If it were, many scholars would be
> unemployed.  A reasonable account must be given.  It is not sufficient 
> to
> simply repeat its words by rote.

So, are you saying that the job security of DH scholars is enough reason 
to feed that school of thought?

Brian Roberts


> gfsomsel
> ________
>
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:21:08 -0500 "Harold R. Holmyard III"
> <hholmyard AT ont.com> writes:
> > Dear Karl,
> >
> > > The problem with DH is: unless one already
> > > possesses the sources, any attempt to
> > > reconstruct hypothesized sources from a
> > > ”daughter“ document cannot help but be
> > > artificial with a high probability of being
> > > wrong. The division along postulated differences
> > > in theology or style is no less artificial than
> > > according to how God is addressed.
> > >
> > > For example, years ago when I read a splitting
> > > apart of the story of the flood into J and E
> > > sources, I was struck by how strange and
> > > disjointed the stories were (to use your words).
> > > But as a whole, it fits together perfectly,
> > > albeit with a certain amount of redundancy not
> > > uncommon in other narratives.
> > >
> > > In closing, until a copy of one of these sources
> > > in Hebrew is found, it seems best to limit our
> > > discussion to the documents that we have.
> >
> > HH: One argument presented to us in seminary was
> > a listing of DH schemes for dividing the biblical
> > text that have arisen over the years. I believe
> > the number was over thirty in the grouping we
> > considered, and none of them agreed. The
> > Documentary Hypothesis is just something else
> > that diverts one's attention from what the Bible
> > is saying when it is read correctly in the form
> > in which it was intended to be read.
> >
> >                                 Yours,
> >                                 Harold Holmyard
> >
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