Review of 'Who Wrote the Bible?' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I know that currently the consensus is that the Old Testament was written by four separate authors; in this book referred to as J, E, D, and P. This book specifies the differences between said authors and how they were determined. It doesn't attempt to make anyone believe in the "God" in any of its (his its) descriptions or definitions, but it certainly points out that there definitely ARE different stories and definitions within the one totality. It does its best to humanize the whole.
I would really be interested in separate "books" by the individual authors, each one consisting of the totality of the writings of the individual writers alone, kind of like the "Gospels" in the New Testament. In the epilogue, it mentions something like that, but it's totally in the Hebrew, and although I like to refer to the original sources, I'm not fluent enough in Hebrew …
I know that currently the consensus is that the Old Testament was written by four separate authors; in this book referred to as J, E, D, and P. This book specifies the differences between said authors and how they were determined. It doesn't attempt to make anyone believe in the "God" in any of its (his its) descriptions or definitions, but it certainly points out that there definitely ARE different stories and definitions within the one totality. It does its best to humanize the whole.
I would really be interested in separate "books" by the individual authors, each one consisting of the totality of the writings of the individual writers alone, kind of like the "Gospels" in the New Testament. In the epilogue, it mentions something like that, but it's totally in the Hebrew, and although I like to refer to the original sources, I'm not fluent enough in Hebrew to understand :-(.
Overall, I like the ideas separated into specific authors, dividing and clarifying the different stories of individual events and explaining some of the inconsistencies in the Bible.
