First and foremost a person should be intellectually honest with themselves when looking at the Torah and the Tanach. I say this for several reasons. The first reason is because the Torah, the one we have today, was not written by Moses. This is because the original Paleo-Hebrew Law “of” Moses was lost or destroyed […]
Documentary Hypothesis
What Happens to the Documentary Hypothesis if the Pentateuch was written 270 BCE? Neil Godfrey*
What happens to the Documentary Hypothesis (DH) if, as outlined in recent posts, the Pentateuch was first written in the third century BCE? That’s the first question that comes to most of us when first hearing a thesis like this. This post outlines Russell Gmirkin’s chapter on the DH, and is thus a continuation […]