From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is.45:7 God created evil?
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:35:27 -0700
On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Read, James C wrote:
I do not want to get invovled in a futile debate about the
authorship of Job but even
critics agree that it was composed long before Kings and Chronicles
Um, just as a bibliographical point, this ("critics agree") simply
isn't true. There are commentators who date Job as the earliest
biblical book, and some who date it as one of the latest, and many
varieties in between. Be wary of substituting a (false) critical
consensus for an argument.