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  • From: belaga AT math.u-strasbg.fr
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Wellhausen JEPD Theory of the Patriarchal Narratives
  • Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:06 +0100

Being greatly impressed by the depth and loving attention to the miniscule and yet always pertinent historical and ethnical details of the Patriarch's narratives of the last contributors, I would be like to add, without going into details this last evening before the Great Holidays, the inspirational and psychological features of these narratives which, in my opinion, testify not only to their historical authenticity but also to the extraordinary intensity and paradigmatic force of reported encounters, -- so much that a few hundred generations of Jews and non-Jews have been culturally (religiosity including) and psychologically inspired, one could even say, defined by these encounters.

The cultural and moral possibilities, as well as the will to dismiss this authenticity are coming only much later, and the way in what directions and how such dismissals develop speak volumes about the Western civilisation of the XIXth and XXth centuries and almost nothing about the subject which still animates many of us.

Happy holidays, dear colleagues!

Edward G. Belaga
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