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Title: The Hidden Book in the Bible by Richard E. Friedman ISBN: 0-06-063004-3 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Professor makes simple error
Comment: Notice that he lists Gen.32:3- 12 as Gen.32:4-13. I wonder how many points he takes off for that kind of mistake in his classroom?
Rating: 3
Summary: Friedman errors
Comment: The translation was the best I have seen, but he still makes errors. He also has too way many verses from the original text. He did good tracing "J" in scoping out the original text, although there are some items in "J" that need to be deleted. Without a text to copy from after "J" Friedman gets lost. He is clueless as which verses should stay and which ones should go. He totally failed to catch the pattern of "J" in making the choice and in doing so has missed the real story and the real ironies. Kudos to him for discovering this ancient "prose" but he does not even know why they wrote the text. He actually thinks it is a prose story. He is wrong. When you know why the Iliad, or the Epic of Gilgalmish was written, then you will know why this book was written too.- It is an astrology/astronomy guide.
Rating: 5
Summary: Did King Solomon believe in
Comment: ... Richard Elliot Friedman's brilliant reconstruction of the Biblical source J into a complete independent text covering the history of the world from the Creation to the coronation of King Solomon, beginning with the words "On the day in which JHWH made Heaven and Earth", argues that the whole epic of the six days of creation is no part of J. J therefore concentrates the whole act of creation, including man, in a single day; and it knows nothing of the opening scene of our text of Genesis, which has always made trouble for Christian theology, which showed "the Spirit of God brooding over the waters" - implying that some sort of material existence existed before Creation. If Freedman is correct, this was not necessarily the original Jewish conception, and may even represent an intrusion from one of the surrounding polytheistic religions. We should remember that by the time Genesis and the rest of the Pentateuch came to their current form, the Jews had been long under heavy Persian and Greek influence. But J, according to Freedman's claim, is a text that breathes the air, if not of Solomon himself, at least of times in which he was well remembered; and it asserts creation out of nothing. This is of great interest: it shows that the doctrine of "Creation out of nothing" - a pretty strong assertion of Divine power and the utter dependence of heaven and earth on the pure creative word of God - existed in some strands of Jewish religion to be dated, according to Freedman, as early as King Solomon. At the very least, it certainly is several centuries earlier than Christianity; and Christianity seems otherwise to be the only religion to envisage a genuine creation, rather than a transformation from some kind of previous existence.
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Title: Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman ISBN: 0060630353 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 07 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Hidden Face of God by Richard E. Friedman ISBN: 006062258X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 13 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Bible with Sources Revealed by Richard E. Friedman ISBN: 0060530693 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein ISBN: 0684869136 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack ISBN: 0060655186 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 06 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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