The History of Ancient Israel

[cheesemanifesto]

The Exodus. God’s covenant with Abraham. The parting of the red sea. Many have heard these stories, and for some, they play an integral role in their faith and understanding of themselves as a people. However, is it a fallacy to say that these stories are true? The answer to this question is, of course, heavily debated. In his book, In

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[towedwart]

"scholars have come up with four different authors responsible for writing the bible"

"In fact, it appears that the bible was not only not written by Moses"

There is a significant difference between the Bible and specific books of the Bible. Historians argue that Moses didn't write all of the Pentateuch, but he at least wrote 2 of the books and possibly parts of the others.

As for four different authors of the Bible? that is a farcry from the real amount due to the fact that the Bible is comprised of 66 books. It is commonly accepted by the general population of Christians and Jews that Moses wrote the first five, but that leaves 61 others.

I'd just go back and change the two quotes lines to this:

"scholars have come up with four different authors responsible for writing the Torah/Pentateuch/first five books of the Bible"

"In fact, it appears that Deuteronomy was not only not written by Moses"

Just a suggestion, though you don't have to do anything of course.

[cheesemanifesto]

yeah theres a lot more to say here for sure. unfortunately i only have 5 pages to do it in, double spaced. the four authors im referring to are JEPD, though with all the translations and scribing going on, theres really a lot more people involved. im only dealing with the hebrew bible in this class, also. so i have no historical information about the rest of the bible at this point

[towedwart]

Ohhhh.... makes sense then. Right on.