More Inconsistencies in the Pentateuch

May 12, 2021 NaN
More Inconsistencies in the Pentateuch
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More Inconsistencies in the Pentateuch

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A few posts ago I more or less backed into a new thread on literary discrepancies found in the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament; these discrepancies are key to understanding why the books were almost certainly not written by a single person -- Moses, for example -- but are a combination of sources put together centuries after the stories were first placed in circulati0n. I talk about this in my textbook: The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction.  Here is how I discuss the matter there: Read by Sam Devis

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