A Summary Critique: Who Wrote the Bible? Richard E.
Moses has traditionally been held to be the author of the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). But difficulties with this ascription have been recognised for many centuries, and in the eighteenth century a consensus was reached that there were two separate sources for this material.Book review: Who Wrote the Bible?, by Richard Elliott Friedman Posted by Anthony Campbell on Monday, August 14. 2017 The long-running BBC radio programme 'Desert Island Discs' provides its castaways with two books by default, the Bible and Shakespeare, to which they can add one further book of their choice.The most sensational aspect of the book, written by Dr. Richard E. Friedman of the University of California at San Diego, is his suggestion that a woman wrote certain parts of the Old Testament, and this may be the main reason for the attention it has received.
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.He notes that Drosnin's book produced many critics who challenged him on his method and adds that other writers on the Bible code, such as Jeffrey Satinover (Cracking the Bible Code), are far from.
Richard Elliot Friedman is a highly qualified biblical scholar, well suited for undertaking the colossal task of answering the question he poses in the title of his book, Who Wrote the Bible? Dr. Friedman gives due credit to Julius Wellhausen, “a powerful figure in the investigation into the authorship of the Bible,” for culminating the original Documentary Hypothesis (Friedman, 26).
