REL 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Qumran Caves, Gen12, Utnapishtim
4 Apr 2016
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Ancient oriental literature: ancient: last document writen 2000 years ago. Creates problems: language (hebrew and greek), peoples (world view: oriental: middle east: Old testament: writen by hebrews (israelites) from the middle east. New testament: greek book, but jewish authors: literature: We have the same human problems and we can idenify with them. Revelaion (reveal): the process by which god"s knowledge became human knowledge. Inspiraion: impulse to write down what is revealed. The words of jeremiah to whom the word of god (revelaion) came . A closed collecion of wriings as authoritaive for faith and pracice . The books of moses (but not really: problems of mosaic authorship. The documentary hypothesis : j (yahweh) yahwist 950 bce in southern kingdom, god seen in human-form, e (elohim) elohist: 100 years later in northern kingdom (850 bce, d (deuteronomist): starts book of deuteronomy 650 bce. God rewards those who do right/punishes those who do wrong: p (priestly writer) 550 bce.
