Exo/Deut: thurs 10.2.07

Redactor: goes through and puts things together and edits and etc to make one big story.

-He (wellhausen) argued that all of this happened after 800BC...that is well after the time of moses
-1446 BC: exodus event occurs
-1440 BC: moses writes the pentateuch


Single Authorship

-Evidence for single authorship
-Writing was wells known in the days of Moses

-An example of what these stone tablet inscroptions looked like...
-First, a Sumerian King list, c. 1812 BC
-The next is an account of the Sumerian Flood story, 19th and 18th centuries BC
-In this version of the story, a great flood was to come upon the earth because of man's great sin...but this plan was thwarted
by another, opposing diety.

-Whoever the author was, he definitely knew the geography, flora, and fauna of the region
-Uses several Egyptian words
-More Egyptian loan words are found in the Pentateuch than anywhere else in the Bible
-The name "Moses" is in fact Egyptian
-Refers to customs that go back to the 2nd millenium

-The "toledoth" structure
-"These are the generations (origins) of..."
-Gen 2:4(first reference....does not refer to particular line)
-5:1
-etc
-37:2
-Exodus 1:1 Hebrew begins with a conjunction...
-"And these are the names...."
-Exodus is a continuation of the story in Genesis...the author must have good knowledge of Genesis...You're supposed to read the whole pentateuch as one giant story

-What about the Documentary Hypothesis' claim of multiple authorship due to the various names for God in Genesis (YHWH & Elohim)?


-Transitional introduction(6:9-10)
1. Violence in creation (6:11-12)
2. First divine speech: resolve to destroy (6:13-22)
3. Second divine speech: "enter ark" (7:1-10)
4. Beginning of flood (7:11-16)
5. The rising flood (7:17-24)
GOD REMEMBERS NOAH (8:1)
6. The receding flood (8:1b-5)
7. Drying of the earth (8:6-14)
8. Third divine speech: "leave the ark" (8:15-19)
9. God's resolve to preserve order (8:20-22)
10. Fourth divine speech: covenant (9:1-17)
-Transitional conclusion (9:18-19)

-in that story God goes from being YHWH to Elohim....there is NO way all of that could be from different sources and would lay out in such a perfect layout.

-Pentateuch claims to have been written by Moses
-Exodus 17:14, 24:4-7, 34:27
-Numbers 33:2
-Deuteronomy 31:9, 22, 24
-someone "picked up the pen" and finished moses' story ...like his death...joshua

-Other books int he OT claim Mosaic authorship
-Joshua 1:7-8
-Judges 3:4
-1 Kings 2:3
-2 Kings 14:6
-2 Chronicles
-Ezra 6:18, Nehemiah 8:1, Daniel 9:11-13

-The NT refers to the writings of Moses or the Law of Moses
-Matthew 8:4
-Mark 7:10
-Luke 24:27, 44
-John 5:46-47

-NT references to the writings of Moses
-1 Corinthians 9:9
-2 Corinthians 3:15
-Hebrews 10:28

-So did Moses witness everything he wrote about?