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Adler has recently had his book of such evidence published -- The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal . Also the many publications on the Elephantine evidence: interesting there to compare interpretations that assume a biblical background and those that keep the bible in ab...

We have clear concrete evidence of substantial Greek-ANE cultural fusion from the Hellenistic period on. Prior to that, let's keep in mind Darshan's point about stable societies preserving their identities against relative newcomers and resisting their cultural influences in origin-stories. Where d...

They are very variable "rules" and if they were real rules, clear and certain rules, then I don't understand why there is so little agreement in the various books and articles on which bit came first, etc, or which direction the relationship moved. There aren't clear rules at all. It isn'...

It is a matter of interpretation. One interprets the overlaps, stratification, etc as either accumulations over an extended time or one interprets them as some sort of collaborative project. The evidence is the same as yours -- the inferred different social, religious groups etc. who contributed to...

I advise my philosophy students to develop hypersensitivity for rhetorical questions in philosophy. They paper over whatever cracks there are in the arguments. Firstly, I didn't mention the three law codes with repeated laws as an argument in favour of diachronicity as such - I have other arguments...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 11:14 am

Actually, it has been argued that virtually NO Jerusalem traditions appear in the Pentateuch at all.

It's a northern Israelite document. Look at the geography. Look at where the Patriarchs are buried.

Er.... Hebron. Seventeen miles south of Jerusalem.

Anyone who is confused after skimming through the exchange between austendw and me might find points of interest in Can the Documentary Hypothesis be Rehabilitated -- that's an article by Russell Gmikin that, in my view, goes for the jugular of the argument. I read this when it was first published ...

It's a major part, if not the major part, of his proposal of a collaborative effort of multiple interested parties in the composition of the Pentateuch. It's hard to miss. There is more than a "few Hammurabi-like bits" in the Pentateuch and Gmirkin addresses many of them. Well, I've read ...

The problem with the traditional model --- and this is where the "hardwire" and "incredulity" references come into it, because the response has been to imply I must not be familiar with the traditional arguments of Pentateuchal composition -- that problem is that if a viewpoint ...

Why cannot the similarities be the consequence of direct literary influence? Well, its clear that Darshan doesn't accept the paradigm that the Pentateuch was written in the Hellenistic period, but a somewhat earlier period, prior to a time when one can imagine direct access to all those Greek liter...