HUM 001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elohist, Enkidu, Age Of Enlightenment
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Hebrew revelation consists of the first five books (torah) aka the law the pentatauch, A mechanism for providing a significant, reflective and thought provoking answer to an unanswerable question about cosmology/meaning of life. Ethical concerns are a constant theme (be good) Usable resources another way to interpret the text. Who wrote the bible? (the paradox of infinitude) If g-d is infinite, and if g-d is the source of the bible, then there are infinite meanings embedded. Any apparent inconsistencies in the bible result from the limitations of human beings in reading it, not from g-ds. The torah itself claims moses as author. Claims the first five books are directly from god to moses. Jewish tradition and christian tradition accept this self authorization. One of the signal achievements of the enlightenment era. Used literary, philological, linguistic, historic and archeological methods to investigate scripture. Biblical scholarship has remained a sophisticated field of scholarly endeavor.
