Ghostwriting The Torah

Sovereign · #1 by **Sovereign** » Oct 16, 2011 12:18 am

In both Jewish and Christian traditions, Moses is considered the author of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. Scholars have furnished evidence that multiple writers had a hand in composing the text of the Torah. Other books of the Hebrew Bible and of the New Testament are also thought to be composites. However, delineating these multiple sources has been a laborious task. Continued...

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-gho ... utors.html

I think this is an awesome idea and the spillover to other historical studies will yield some good results as well.

james1v · #2 by **james1v** » Oct 16, 2011 1:21 am

The results on the wibble will be suppressed. :coffee:

Zwaarddijk · #3 by **Zwaarddijk** » Nov 09, 2011 8:56 pm

james1v wrote:The results on the wibble will be suppressed.

... right.

Seriously, even in Christian churches, loads of people these days know the Torah had multiple authors, and that some Pauline letters weren't written by Paul at all. Heck, in the bigger European churches, even the clergy are open about this.

NamelessFaceless · #4 by **NamelessFaceless** » Nov 09, 2011 9:24 pm

Zwaarddijk wrote:

Seriously, even in Christian churches, loads of people these days know the Torah had multiple authors, and that some Pauline letters weren't written by Paul at all. Heck, in the bigger European churches, even the clergy are open about this.

My Catholic Bible is open about all of this. It starts out with an explanation of the four sources of the Documentary Hypothesis and discusses the different sources in the footnotes of various passages. IIRC, it's also open about the fact that many of the Pauline epistles are falsely attributed.