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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
  • Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:35:35 +0000

On 23/12/2004 20:53, Jim West wrote:

At 11:36 AM 12/23/2004, you wrote:

All of this is simply evidence that Genesis has undergone some kind of redaction or editing since Moses' time. None of it is evidence against the hypothesis that the text as we have it is substantially as written by Moses, with some updating of the language and of place names.


Am I correct in assuming that you think Moses wrote Genesis and that it has since been redacted? Moses wrote Genesis? Really? One question. Where in the text of Genesis does it say anywhere who wrote it?

Jim, I don't know who wrote Genesis. I am simply saying that there is no conclusive evidence against the hypothesis that Moses wrote it. As with nearly all biblical (including New Testament) books, we have very little evidence either for or against authorship by any individual. All we have to go on is certain traditions, sometimes very ancient, and the speculations of certain scholars that those traditions are unreliable - speculations for which there is rarely significant evidence if some later redaction is allowed for.

The tradition that Moses wrote Genesis is certainly an ancient one. I don't know how ancient, can anyone tell us? It is implicit but not explicit in the New Testament. And I agree that it is not in the text of the book itself.

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