The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah by Edward Feld is the kind of book I really enjoy. We have known for a long time that the bible is composed of numerous sources, brought together by some unknown hand or hands at some unknown time. Feld gives his theory here, and it is compelling.
But the problem with critical hypotheses is that it appears we will never have the documents that went to construct the bible. We have the complete books, and a great deal of informed guessing – but we have never found the parts that constructed the whole. We also tend to repeat without real proof that the book “discovered” in the Temple during its renovation in 2 Kings 22 is Deuteronomy. Probably – but where is the proof?
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