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  • From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Author of the torah
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:08:49 -0700

On Jul 29, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Read, James C wrote:

Have you read Deouteronomy 31:9 closely?
What did he write?
The law???
How do you say 'law' in hebrew?
Isn't it something like 'torah'?
And the name of the book attributed to Moshe?
The torah???

My! What an amazing coincidence!!!



There is no warrant either for your sarcasm, or for assuming that the
phrase התורה הזאת [HTWRH HZ(T, "this law"] refers to the canonical Torah
as a whole. In order to establish that, one would have to
establish--through actual historical argumentation, not merely verbal
"coincidences" (though a non-random and non-trivial coincidence, to be
sure)--that the author of Deut 31:9 intended to use the word תורה in
just that fashion.

--
R. Christopher Heard
Assistant Professor of Religion
Pepperdine University
Malibu, California 90263-4352
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