arapahoepark
Puritan Board Professor
I was skimming through From Paradise to Promised Land by TD Alexander and Story as Torah by Wenham regarding dating the Pentateuch, specifically Genesis.
I came across this is Wenham's book:
What say you? Are these revisions problematic?
I came across this is Wenham's book:
He doesn't seem to be a JEDP guy but, it seems as though, at least some of the claims, tend to be the mentality "well the future can't be told" so they see it as looking back.There are a number of indicators that Genesis was at least revised in the tenth century, including the table of nations, mentions of Dan, Ur of the Chaldees, the Edomite Royal archives in ch. 36 and details in the Joseph stories. However claims that there are even later elements are not so strong. Our argument is not that Genesis was lightly revised in the tenth century, but that it was significantly edited then so that its relevance to tenth century issues was apparent.
What say you? Are these revisions problematic?