tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097749014220347853.post9042893659969073448..comments2024-01-30T12:26:03.019-05:00Comments on The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Authors or VoicesMighty Garnel Ironhearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09571194550300367249noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097749014220347853.post-32215330671233105792011-07-25T12:34:25.523-04:002011-07-25T12:34:25.523-04:00The academic study of history, by definition, star...The academic study of history, by definition, starts with the assumption that the Bible is to be treated like any other document ie. as something written by a person or persons for a specific purpose.<br /><br />Within that approach, the Documentary Hypothesis suggests multiple human authors as opposed to a single human author.<br /><br />However, you are correct that it was never intended to fully answer the question as to whether there were multiple human authors vs. a single supernatural being with multiple facets.Law momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01859590966207623757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097749014220347853.post-16471752300193399732011-07-24T14:32:48.522-04:002011-07-24T14:32:48.522-04:00It is not far-fetched to understand God speaking i...<i>It is not far-fetched to understand God speaking in one way to Moshe Rabeinu, a"h, when detailing the various sacrifices and their procedures, another when giving civil laws, another when detailing historical events.</i><br /><br />IIUC, it's a bit more complex than that. From the author you quoted, himself frum:<br /><i>Before you dismiss all this by saying that all we did was discover that stories don’t look like laws, let me point out there are plenty of narrative sections that the computerized analysis assigned to the P family (or, more precisely, to the nameless family that turns out to be very similar to what the critics call the P family). Two prominent examples are the story of Shimon and Levi in Shechem and the story of Pinchas and Zimri.</i><br /><br />So they apparently have managed to divide even narratives into the normally legalistic P category (as Bible critics say they should be). So it certainly looks like these aren't just differences in genre, but big differences in authorship styles...for whatever reason...Baruch Peltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178212221463356386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097749014220347853.post-66920819871281291122011-07-24T14:30:51.229-04:002011-07-24T14:30:51.229-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Baruch Peltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178212221463356386noreply@blogger.com