Political and Economic Wrangling Over the Pentateuch
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to learn that Adam already knows about this theory. But it was news to me and fairly fascinating to boot.
I just finished Richard Friedman’s Who Wrote the Bible? It’s a classic popularization of the Documentary Hypothesis, which claims that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the …
Feet of Clay: Moshe
I present: Feet of Clay. This is a new feature here at Minor Thoughts. Many Biblical characters are far more interesting than we realize. With all of the familiar stories floating around, it’s easy to forget just how, well, human they sometimes were.
This first edition of ”Feet of Clay” grew out of a recent IM …