![]() ![]() Reading and re-reading the Hebrew text, he found himself asking the same honest questions about who wrote it that brave people had been asking since the 11th Century. Cross, Friedman rightly went about his work like a Sherlock Holmes, as if it had never been done before. ![]() Friedman sets the two histories on a grid of his own personal story, since his graduate student days, of wanting to know for himself whether the documentary hypothesis of the formation of Genesis to Kings, which began to be formulated in the 18th Century, was valid.Įngaging in his own independent study under the direction of Harvard’s F. ![]() Earlier scholars have set their hand to write one or the other of those histories, but there is no other that combines the two, or at least combines them so engagingly. There is no other book quite like this one. Richard Elliott Friedman, who teaches at UC San Diego, has provided the interested lay reader of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) with two basic stories about it: a history of the formation of the Pentateuch (Torah, or Five Books of Moses) and of the Early Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuels, Kings) and Chronicles and a history of critical scholarship since the Renaissance which has provided the data for the former. ![]()
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