REL 1004 Chapter : Religion
Document Summary
Land of cannan and palestine as well as many descendants. Israelites are slaves in egypt and with the help of yahweh, they come out of the land. They wander in the wilderness until they arrive at mt sinai. When the lord revelaed himself to the people and gave them the commandments. Farewell speaches, death of moses: authorship of pentateuch. Early biblical critics said: moses did not write most of the pentateuch. Is about moses death, surely he didn"t write it. Repetition of stories and contradictions: the pentateuch is an almalgamation of writings by different authors of different times, source criticism-biblical interpretation. Applicable to composite works-documents whose parts come from different sources or writers. 1st source critic tries to separate out the early works, then date the sources and talk about authors: julius wellhausen and the documentary hypothesis, in the pentaeuch there are four written sources that interveave with each other throughout.
