Re: another heresy?

I concur that we don't need Moses to have been the author. But it's
clear that for the creationists Mosaic authorship is, if not a
necessary argument, at least a useful hammer. I saw John Mackay of
Creation Research talk a few weeks ago, and he made a big deal out of
Moses writing Genesis so he could cite Luke 16: "If you won't believe
Moses, you won't believe even if someone comes back from the dead"
etc.

On 12/7/05, Robert Schneider <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Michael writes:
>
> "That view I have long held but cant see why it matters when the
> Pentateuch was written and it may well have been modified many times before
> the final form."
>
> I agree. Historical questions of authorship, composition, etc., are
> interesting, and may provide hermeneutical aids, but in the final analysis
> it is the text as we have it that matters. What are its stories and what do
> they mean theologically and spiritually?
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
> To: "Chris Barden" <chris.barden@gmail.com>; "ASA list" <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: another heresy?
>
>
> > Theological students in the 50s had four coloured pencils and coloured the
> > Pentateuch according to whether it was JEP orD! When I did theology in the
> > 70s my non-conservative OT teacher said JEPD didn't work and combined J
> > and E.
> >
> > There is much question about this now , but still it is taught .
> >
> > The likes of Gordon Wenham dispense with it and reckon the Pentateuch was
> > collated in about 1000BC thus dispensing with both JEPD and Mosaic
> > authorship. That view I have long held but cant see why it matters when
> > the Pentateuch was written and it may well have been modified many times
> > before the final form.
> >
> > Mathematicians will be interested to know that Euclid's geometry only
> > partially derives form Euclid and was collated over centuries. Does that
> > disprove geometry?
> >
> > Michael
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Barden" <chris.barden@gmail.com>
> > To: "ASA list" <asa@calvin.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:51 AM
> > Subject: JEDP: another heresy?
> >
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I've been wondering lately what the status of the JEDP documentary
> >> hypothesis should be in light of its "evolutionary" character. It is
> >> cited approvingly in plenty of Bible commentaries and is lambasted by
> >> Answers in Genesis (see
> >> http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i4/moses.asp) so my
> >> assumption is to treat it with some plausibility. But I don't really
> >> know much about it, so I thought I would ask experts on the list if it
> >> is a firm explanation of "textual origins" or something weaker.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 8 07:48:18 2005