However, these stories-and their frequent discrepancies-provoke questions: why does the first chapter in Genesis say that man and woman were made in God's image, while the second says that woman was made from man's rib? Why does one account of the flood say it lasted forty days, while another records no less than one hundred? And why do some stories reflect the history of southern Judah, while others seem sourced from northern Israel? Originally published in 1987, Richard Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible? joins a host of modern scholars who show that the Pentateuch was written by at least four distinct voices-separated by borders, political alliances, and particular moments in history-then connected by brilliant editors. Sinai, and the cycle of Israel's enslavement and liberation from Egypt. According to tradition, Moses was divinely directed to write down foundational events in the history of the world: the creation of humans, the worldwide flood, the laws as they were handed down at Mt. For thousands of years, the prophet Moses was regarded as the sole author of the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch. The Bible with Sources Revealed (HarperCollins, 2004).About the Book Includes a new epilogue: "What has happened since the original edition in 1987."īook Synopsis A much anticipated reissue of Who Wrote the Bible?-the contemporary classic the New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking perceptive guide" that identifies the individual writers of the Pentateuch and explains what they can teach us about the origins of the Bible.
The Hidden Book in the Bible (HarperCollins, 1998).Ĭommentary on the Torah (HarperCollins, 2001). The Disappearance of God (Little, Brown, 1995). Who Wrote the Bible? (Simon and Schuster, 1987). The Exile and Biblical Narrative (Harvard Semitic Monographs, 1981). Boda, eds., Let Us Go up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H. “The SOTAH: Why Is This Case Different from All Other Cases?” in I. “An Essay on Method,” in Le-David Maskil (Biblical & Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego Eisenbrauns, 2003) R. “Composition and Paronomasia in the Book of Jonah,” Hebrew Annual Review 4 (1980), pp. “The MRZH Tablet from Ugarit,” Maarav 2 (1980), pp. “The Biblical Expression mastîr panîm,” Hebrew Annual Review 1 (1977), pp.
He is also Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.Īkkadian, Aramaic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Moabite, Phoenician, Ugaritic at the University of Miami. He was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and Oxford, a Senior Fellow at the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa. at the Jewish Theological Seminary and B.A. at Harvard in Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations M.H.L. Richard Elliott Friedman earned his Th.D.
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