Richard Elliott Friedman
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| Title | : | Who Wrote the Bible? |
| Author | : | Richard Elliott Friedman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | March 21st 1997 by HarperOne (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Religion. History. Nonfiction. Christianity. Judaism. Theology |
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The contemporary classic the New York Times Book Review called “a thought-provoking [and] perceptive guide,” Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman is a fascinating, intellectual, yet highly readable analysis and investigation into the authorship of the Old Testament. The author of Commentary on the Torah, Friedman delves deeply into the history of the Bible in a scholarly work that is as exciting and surprising as a good detective novel. Who Wrote the Bible? is enlightening, riveting, an important contribution to religious literature, and as the Los Angeles Times aptly observed in its rave review, “There is no other book like this one.”List Books Supposing Who Wrote the Bible?
| Original Title: | Who Wrote the Bible? |
| ISBN: | 0060630353 (ISBN13: 9780060630355) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 5194 Users | 236 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Who Wrote the Bible?
I come back to this book and re-read it from time to time for several reasons: first, the writing is clear and uncluttered; second, the detective work in it is quite honestly thrilling; and third, this book pays the greatest honor to the Bible.Attributing a work like the Bible to a single magical force totally diminishes the power, meaning and intent of the stories held within.The author makes the case that this book is even more valuable as a work of man - reinterpreted through the ages - sinceCan't recommend this book enough to fellow Bible novices. I'm reading the Bible for the first time, as historical research my next book and to enrich my understanding of literature and culture. WHO WROTE THE BIBLE has been essential to understanding the first five books of the Bible as the multifaceted multipurpose book that it is. Learning about the perspectives of the people who actually compiled these stories into one cohesive book places the shifts and contradictions of the Bible in
A scholarly detective story, written in a lucid, engaging, and enthusiastic style, and uncluttered with reference notes, that lays out a cogent theory of authorship of the various documents that make up the Torah (Pentateuch) of the Hebrew Bible. Friedman is intellectually honest throughout, beginning with due reverence for the pioneers of Higher Criticism and admitting that the messy and tortuous path to his conclusions has been excised from the narrative. And having pulled apart the biblical
When you look at the bedrock texts of civilization, there is one we continually come back to. It is the bible. No one can have a serious discussion about ancient history without it making an appearance. The same goes for Monotheism or the Western world. Some people believe it was given by God, others by men who thought they spoke for God. It contains discussions and themes on almost every topic: origins, history, divinity, philosophy, eternity, and the meaning of life. For a book so read and
Wow, this is a remarkably readable and relevant exploration of the authorship of the Pentateuch and historical books of the Old Testament. It's easy for biblical scholarship to get stale pretty quickly, as currents change and leave certain theories behind; it's a credit to Richard Elliott Friedman that the most dated-feeling part of Who Wrote the Bible? is its lousy title. That's not to say there aren't things to disagree with here the dates and identities of the various sources are always
Richard Elliott Friedman set out to write a highly accessible book tackling one of the most controversial and studied subjects there is: the authorship of the Bible. By anyone's account it is a monumental task, and Friedman accomplished it brilliantly. It would be easy to dismiss this book for its relatively short length and friendly, conversational language, but that would be a mistake. Friedman is a master of the subject, and in very easy-to-understand language he lays down the important
In Sunday school, we are taught that the first 5 books of the Old Testament were written by Moses. But scholars have long noticed some anomalies that question this tradition: stories report events in a particular order, and later it say that those same events happened in a different order. As far back as the third century, scholars have noticed these anomalies.Richard Elliott Friedman presents the most current beliefs of bible scholars. Friedman says that the first five books were not composed
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