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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] Inspiration
  • Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:50:55 -0700

Shoshanna,

I am not sure what you mean, or perhaps you are not sure what I mean, or both. It seems to me a simple, logical fact, indeed almost a matter of definition (not an "idea" or "theory"), that the collection we call the Tanakh could not have existed as such--I mean as a completed collection--until after all of the individual parts thereof were written. I suppose one could envision a kind of "rolling corpus" of scriptures to which writings were added one by one--and in fact something sort of like that may be part of the "canonical process" by which the various books within the Tanakh were combined to become the Tankah--but earlier stages in that rolling corpus would still not be the "Tanakh" or "Hebrew Bible" (as we know it) until all the books had been added. This seems to me a simple truism. But again, if I have totally missed your point, I apologize for that.

Chris

On Aug 1, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Shoshanna Walker wrote:

This is only one idea/theory

Shoshanna




The
writers of the Hebrew Bible did not know of the existence of any such
thing as the Hebrew Bible, nor could they have, because it did not
exist until well after they did their work,
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