I created the following chart based on the appendix in the book 'Who wrote the Bible' by Richard Elliott Friedman.
Documentary hypothesis/Genesis - Religion-wiki
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Hi Granpa,
When I was in college, we used Who wrote the Bible as the textbook for the OT Class.
When I was in college, we used Who wrote the Bible as the textbook for the OT Class.
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Nazaroo
Joseph is still alive! (Gen 45.26)
Good work, good effort.
I notice however for the last half of the chart, that the primary evidence for different sources, namely the alternate names of "God" (elohim) and "LORD" (yahweh) are very scarce and don't match the columns.
Here Friedman is no longer dividing the text according to the essential theory, but now engages in conjecture as to sources and also text divisions. Perhaps he has linguistic evidence of another kind for those categorizations, but the theory only seems to hold up well on the face of it for some early sections of Genesis.
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Nazaroo
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I havent studied the hypothesis in-depth and I have no strong feelings one way or the other regarding it. Even if I did have strong feelings about it I wouldnt argue them here or anywhere else. In my articles that I create I just try to present facts. People can and should make up their own minds about these things.
I know that there are other factors beside just the name of God that is used. When I figure out what they are I will highlight them but I have been too busy with other things to dig up the information that I need.
I know that there are other factors beside just the name of God that is used. When I figure out what they are I will highlight them but I have been too busy with other things to dig up the information that I need.
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