RE: Whose view of the O T is authoritative? Jewry or Christianity?
January 8, 2012 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2012 at 4:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
As if those "works" were their own in the first place.
No single author penned these things. We can clearly see that these stories were cobbled together over time, they share similar themes with earlier (and later) stories, as well as stories from just about anywhere else. We're not talking about the early infancy of mankind here when we discuss these tales. They had nearly 100,000 years of tradition behind them at this point. It's very similar to a modern author re-writing their own version of The Illiad, and then asking which is authoritative. Both, neither.
No single author penned these things. We can clearly see that these stories were cobbled together over time, they share similar themes with earlier (and later) stories, as well as stories from just about anywhere else. We're not talking about the early infancy of mankind here when we discuss these tales. They had nearly 100,000 years of tradition behind them at this point. It's very similar to a modern author re-writing their own version of The Illiad, and then asking which is authoritative. Both, neither.
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