By Richard Elliott Friedman
Richard Elliott Friedman's The Hidden publication within the Bible could be the most vital literary discovery of our century. Or it can be a load of guano. The Hidden ebook, like Michael Drosnin's The Bible Code, makes the audacious declare that its writer has came upon a mystery constitution of that means within the holy texts of Christianity and Judaism. Bucking greater than a century of biblical textual feedback, Friedman claims that one writer, most likely a lay individual, wrote some of the so much known tales within the Hebrew Bible (including the tales of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, and David) as one unified textual content. The Hidden Book's advent defends this thesis with shut readings of the styles of punctuation, notice selection, sentence constitution, and allusion utilized in those tales; the rest of the booklet is a reconstruction of what Friedman says is the unique, foundational textual content on the center of the Bible.
Unlike The Bible Code, Friedman's ebook abstains from making particular interpretive claims in response to its findings. but Friedman does draw one lesson for modern readers from the tale he has found--perhaps the one portion of this booklet that may get away the talk it really is absolute to reason. In an age of relativism, Friedman writes, "Suddenly this paintings comes again from approximately 3 thousand years in the past. And it says definite, people have the ability to make judgments of what's strong and undesirable and correct and mistaken. during this tale, the writer of the earth doesn't continuously demonstrate what's reliable and undesirable, yet fairly the people take the fruit that allows them to make those judgments." --Michael Joseph Gross
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And I found that all these connections were not the work of editors who inserted them in order to make various short texts fit together better. On the contrary, it was precisely the Bible’s editors who broke the unity and continuity of this work by mixing other works into it. ” I answer that it is because the editors of the Bible were brilliant. At least three editors added new works to this one in a process so sophisticated and complicated that it has taken us centuries to see it and unravel it.
16 It was not my intention at the start of this research to include texts from the books of Joshua, Judges, or 1 Samuel. I simply meant this to be a study of J and the Court History of David. But, as we shall see, the evidence required the connection of these intervening texts with the others in the study. I was finding that the text that is known as J is just the beginning of a story that starts with the creation of the world in Genesis and continues all the way to the establishment of David’s kingdom on the earth.
But they do not. These words and expressions are distributed through J but not through E, P, or D; through Samuel B but not Samuel A; through Judges 9–21 but not Judges 1–8. They form an interlocking pattern of terminology through this particular group of texts. In statistical terms, this group is about 25 percent of the Bible’s prose, but, as even a first glance at the chart will tell you, the number of cases of 90 or 100 percent of the occurrences of a term happening in this group is considerable.
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