Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 10/09/2004 20:15, George F. Somsel wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:33:54 -0500 "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
> writes:
>  
>
> > George:
> >
> > The Deuteronomist, i.e. the guy who wrote most of the book of 
> > Deuteronomy, was Moses, who wrote by present guesstimation about 
> > 1400 BC. ...
> >
> >    
> _________________
>
> It makes no difference whether you call it the work of Moses (which any
> reader who is not precommited to the proposition and who reads the text
> carefully cannot accept) or the work of the Deuteronomist.  The fact is,
> that's where the tendency appears.  I used to be committed to the Mosiaic
> hypothesis, but found that it is untennable.   Your position is based
> upon a refusal to EXAMINE THE FACTS which would reveal that a Mosaic
> authorship is impossible.  You declare what scripture MUST BE then make
> it conform to your conception.
>  

George, please can you give us a rundown of the FACTS which seem to you 
so clearly to disprove Karl's statement that "the guy who wrote most of 
the book of Deuteronomy, was Moses"?

Note that Karl carefully wrote "most of the book". So don't come up with 
old chestnuts like that Moses could not have described his own death. 
The great majority of the book is presented as the words of Moses, in 
fact apparently all but 1:1-5, 27:1a,9a,11, 29:1,2a, 
31:1,7a,9,10a,14-30, 32:44-46a,48-52, 33:1 and all of chapter 34 (maybe 
I have missed a few details). But are there clear FACTS which reveal 
that the impossibility of Mosaic authorship of this material which is 
attributed to Moses, or at least the great majority of it?

PS Thank you for at last correcting your system date.

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