Who wrote the Bible? /

Who wrote the Bible? /

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Author / Creator:	Friedman, Richard Elliott.
Imprint:	Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1987] ©1987
Description:	299 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Authorship. Bible. -- Historical Books -- Authorship. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Historical Books -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Historical Books. Bible. -- Pentateuch. Documentary hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism) Authorship. Documentary hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13195547

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ISBN:	0671631616 9780671631611 0139585133 9780139585135 9780060630355 0060630353
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	Armed with his training as a Bible scholar and a linguist, Professor Friedman combines his own understanding of the ancient world with recent archeological evidence and new methods of literary analysis to discover clues within the Bible itself that point to a solution to the puzzle of its authorship. Like a skilled detective on a difficult case, he carefully uncovers the identity of the writers: when and where they lived, their relationship to the events they described, whom they admired, whom they opposed, the political and religious motivations behind their works; and in three cases, he provides their names. He discovers that some of these writers knew each other and tells how this affected, in unexpected ways, the final form the Bible took. Finally, he explains why there are inconsistencies in the Bible, why certain stories came out the way they did and what their relationship was to the historical events they describe, why certain laws were laid down, and why God is portrayed in so many different and often contradictory ways.--From publisher description. Includes index and bibliography.

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Call Number:	BS1225.2 .F75 1987
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