Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Charles Savelle" <chsavelle AT hotmail.com>]

Surely you are not suggesting that the debate between Mosaic authorship and 
the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP) is to be settled by a falling chalkboard! 
It would be ironic indeed for one to believe that God would intervene by 
causing a chalkboard to fall but the same God could not have inspired Moses 
to write the Pentateuch.

Charles Savelle


> From: Robert Fritzius <fritzius AT bellsouth.net>
> To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Authorship of Pentatuch
> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:12:29 -0400
>
> In 1974 I was stationed on Guam in the U.S. Navy.
> Our Sunday Evening bible studies leader announced
> that we were going to do the book of  Genesis next.
>
> I asked him, one-on-one, what he was going to say
> about the authorship of the Pentatuch.  (I happened
> to subscribe to the multiple authorship JEPD
> viewpoint.)
>
> He told me, and he had studied Hebrew along the
> way, that originally he had also subscribed to the JEPD
> viewpoint, but the more he had studied the matter, he
> had come to the conclusion that Moses did the whole
> thing.  I encouraged him to be "fair" in how he handled
> it. He said,  "We'll see."
>
> On the  first night of the new study he started off really
> seemingly really good.  He told the class that many
> scholars are of the opinion that multiple authors were
> involved, and described them briefly.  The he said,
> "But Moses did it."
>
> One second later the four by eight foot blackboard behind
> him fell to the floor with a resounding CRASH!
>
> Four eyes, two of his and two of mine were like saucers.
>
> To God be the Glory!
>
> Bob Fritzius
> Starkville, Mississippi
>
> Bob Fritzius
>
>
>
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