Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • 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: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:14:44 +0000

On 24/12/2004 12:05, Jim West wrote:

...
I think what some are missing is the simple fact that the books of the Hebrew Bible NEVER claim authorship by anyone! Anywhere! The superscriptions are centuries later.

Jim, what you seem to have missed is that some books, although not Genesis of course, are written in the first person, e.g. Nehemiah and the bulk of Deuteronomy (not of course the last chapter), or have other internal authorship claims, e.g. those in Jeremiah already mentioned. In fact a large part of all the prophetic books (except for Jonah) consists of material explicitly attributed to the prophet, although there is no indication of who collected and redacted the material. You don't have to accept these authorship claims if you don't want to, but you shouldn't ignore them.

--
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/



--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 22/12/2004





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page