Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Biblical Criticism - Part 2

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[Music] the great hope of the study which I saw in the 60s when I was becoming involved was this you have four different lines of evidence the great hope is that they'll all agree if you look at each line of evidence you'll get the same distillation of our book into the different texts so if you divide them in terms of styles and then check for contradictions within each document that's divided according to style you won't have any contradictions within each document according to style you won't have any contradictions you won't have any and redundancies the documents that divided according to style will also be consistent with respect to what historical period they come from that was the hope if that had happened one would have felt that there was some considerable strength to the position because different lines of evidence agreeing on a conclusion that isn't conclusive but it would at least be helpful but it didn't work out that way as I'll show you in some of the examples we're going to look at they have to override one Criterion in favor another Criterion the names of God for example do not consistently divide up among the authors so they tell you that after a while the J author decided to use the eame also so then the same author could be using J or E and some texts have a majority of these and minority of those so they have to be parceled out in certain ways turn out to require very subtle discriminations when you use this criteria when you use that criteria now Freedman is aware of this and he says but even in the face of the fact that we

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2. 5:47Hashem to the land of Canan yes we'll cross over from the East where they are…
3. 12:02arriving from and he en camped before the city he bought the parcel of land upon…
4. 17:55it gets its name and it's also J page 503 verse 7 Moses would take the…
5. 24:10people complained against Moses and it that's singular for the people said why is this you…
6. 30:20take with you some of the elders not even all the elders they're not going to…
7. 36:03Waters attitude of the the rock is entirely different in the two cases but that's not…
8. 42:11said Ley said there are two ways to approach a person to urge him to do…
9. 47:53they when they give you examples of what they call evence for their position it's that…
10. 54:01that really happened rather than saying that we copied it from them why would you conclude…

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