Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Jim:

Several of the books mention that they are the works of the person named at 
the beginning of the book. Jeremiah actually mentioned that he hired a scribe 
(secretary) to write down what he dictated, and when the scribe was no longer 
available, he wrote himself. The books are clearly naming authors, whether or 
not you accept the named author is a different story.

For example, Tolstoy is listed as the author of "War and Peace". You can 
either accept that attribution as being correct, or claim that some 
annonymous writer or writers wrote it instead. Even if you claim the latter, 
that does not negate the attribution to Tolstoy, it merely says that you 
disagree with that attribution.

Likewise, you cannot deny that there is a claimed author listed for many 
books in Tanakh, all you can say is that you disagree with the claim.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim West" <jwest AT highland.net>

>  
> ...  There is not a single solitary book in the 
> whole of the Hebrew Bible that names an author.  And I don't care 
> what the colophons of various manuscripts say to the contrary.  
> Hence, your "authors" will all be imaginary- like the characters of 
> Tolkeins books or Lewis's chronicles of Narnia.
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> Jim West, ThD
> Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
> Quartz Hill School of Theology
> 
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