Bloom, Harold & David Rosenberg. The Book of J. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. ISBN 0802110509. Fascinating translation of what they consider the J (Jahwist) "thread" running through the Hebrew scriptures -- incidentally, they claim it is the work of one author, a woman. Gives fundies apoplexy, obviously, but well studied and argued, if not ultimately provable one way or another.
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Date: 25 Nov 2008 04:21 am (UTC)Bloom, Harold & David Rosenberg. The Book of J. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. ISBN 0802110509. Fascinating translation of what they consider the J (Jahwist) "thread" running through the Hebrew scriptures -- incidentally, they claim it is the work of one author, a woman. Gives fundies apoplexy, obviously, but well studied and argued, if not ultimately provable one way or another.
Review of the book: http://prophetess.lstc.edu/~rklein/Doctwo/seitz.htm
Quick overview of the Jahwist vs Elohist discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_Hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahwist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohist
http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~rltroxel/Intro/hypoth.html
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mvz/bible/doc-hyp.pdf
http://www.interfaith.org/articles/torah_torah_torah/torah1.php