![]() ![]() ![]() J and E are generallyĬonsidered the oldest strands, and the extraordinary literary power of J has often been admired. Wrote the Bible?'' - the first five books of the Bible, the Torah or Pentateuch, were woven out of four distinct literary strands or ''documents,'' conventionally designated J, E, P and D. According to the documentary hypothesis - which Friedman lucidly explained in ''Who He builds on the ''documentary hypothesis'' accepted by most biblical scholars since the 19th century, but tilts it in a surprising direction. Now, in his new book, he proposes that we can detect in the Bible, hiddenĪmid the accretions and superimposed book-divisions of later editors, the earliest long prose masterwork in world literature, running from the creation story to the death of David. To abstraction, and that this process of transcendent abstraction was then projected forward in intellectual history all the way to Nietzsche and modern physics. In ''The Hidden Face of God'' he made a vigorous theological argument that the Bible's representation of God moved progressively from anthropomorphism ![]() ''Who Wrote the Bible?'' elicited wide interest. Ichard Elliott Friedman is that rare biblical scholar who is both able to address a broad audience and willing to raise large speculative issues about the Bible. Restored, translated and introduced by Richard Elliott Friedman. Richard Elliott Friedman makes a bold claim concerning the authorship of books in the Bible. ![]()
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