Who Wrote the Bible?
Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Religion & Spirituality,Christianity
Who Wrote the Bible? Details
The contemporary classic the New York Times Book Review called “a thought-provoking [and] perceptive guide,” Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman is a fascinating, intellectual, yet highly readable analysis and investigation into the authorship of the Old Testament. The author of Commentary on the Torah, Friedman delves deeply into the history of the Bible in a scholarly work that is as exciting and surprising as a good detective novel. Who Wrote the Bible? is enlightening, riveting, an important contribution to religious literature, and as the Los Angeles Times aptly observed in its rave review, “There is no other book like this one.”
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Reviews
The simplistic idea that the Bible is the word of God, and that every single word of it has to be trusted at face value without discussion is really very far from the real evolution of a series of epics from various origins. The Hebrew mythology has its richness, only known by dedicated analysts of the antiquity. The Book as we know it, as we have it is in fact a total remastering in one treatise, rewritten by the prophet Ezechiel and his group of priests-writers during the sixth and the fifth centuries B.C.E. to make it easier for the lay people to use for comforting their beliefs. But it definitely is a remastering of multiple origins, of myths which are now relatively well known by very few people. It is full of conflicting traditions, and its understanding is not an easy task. Especially since it is filled with symbolic images, only understood by those who know their origins. The Bible is by no means a history book, and should never be read as such.
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