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Critical reading of the OT

November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here’s an interesting glimpse of critical reading of the Old Testament. Taken from Reading the Old Testament: an Introduction by Lawrence Boadt (not a direct quote):
The books of the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers) are a narrative construct. There may have been several sources. Critics have detected two accounts calling God either YHWH or [...]