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Re: Author

Posted By: Charles Pope
Date: Friday, 5 April 2002, at 9:11 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Author (Oscar Calle)

Hi Oscar,

I bought Friedman's 1998 title called "The Hidden Book of the Bible," in which he published the "Book of J." Critical analysis of the Biblical text is very important and useful, however these scholars are still grasping in the dark. My model will provide a much more powerful context for ancient Hebrew experts to refocus their analytical tools. It really isn't possible to trace the development of the Bible until we know who and what the Bible talking about!

For example, it is presently thought that the "doublets" of the Torah are the result of the melding of two scribal sources, the "J" and the "E." This may be partly true. However the Torah accounts are not the melding of two sources of the same person and time period, but of different persons and time periods. Moses is not one person but two. Akhenaten and Hammurabi were separated by a considerable amount of time. However, the Torah only provides one account for both.

-Charles

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