"The Pentateuch"

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This paper examines how the biblical writings of the "Old Testament" are considered to be a revelation of God's personal dealings with his people and how, as such, the biblical writings hold a unique place in the religious traditions of the Jewish and Christian faiths. It looks at different theories concerning the authorship and analyzes how these theories are built out of the anthropological understanding of how religious belief ascends from myth, which is told in stories and oral traditions.

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"According to Nelson's Complete book of Bible Maps and Charts, the authorship of the first 5 books of the bible is attributed to Moses. This is a common view held by modern, conservative Jews and Christians alike, and is the view, according to Nelson's There was general agreement regarding Moses' authorship until the 18th century. In the modern period, however, it has often been asserted that behind the Pentateuch . . . are five separate documents, known as J, E, D, P, and R that each stem from a variety of periods of Israel's history and which were pieced together late in the Old Testament era into what we know today as the Pentateuch. This theory is known as the Documentary Hypothesis" (p. 4)"

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