Saturday, July 25, 2009
THE AUTHER OF TORAH------------------> 1:- ( THE CRITICALS HISORY)
Attention :- WE ARE SEARCHING AS ACADEMIC PERSONS,WE MUST LET OTHERS TOLD US THEIR THOUGHTS FIRST IN A REAL ACADEMIC ARGUMENT ATMOSPHERE TO REACH TO THE REALITY:-- It was "Deorant " who gave us the idea that the history repeated itself as a repeatedly round circle,. that is the matter, in concern of the authorship of the TORAH ,.In the book of numbers chapter 16, we find that Korah, Dathan and Abiram , when they have refused the prophetic personality of Moses, in order to gain a respectable place, among their people,They gathered some people around them, but at last the earth opened its mouth ,and swallowed them . It is the same matter ,which happened and still happens, in the case of the "Authorship critical" ,in the past and in the present time. To follow the history of the Authorship Criticism for Torah ,Young proclaims in his article about" the Authorship of Torah"referring that date, to "Jen Astruc" at 1753,but "D.F Payne"has another idea, because he refers it to" Masius" at1573, while"F.F Bruce refers it to "H.B Witter at 1711 .We suggest that every one of those have created a special type of beginning-------------------BUT the real beginning in our suggestion refers back to "Irenaeus","Tertullian"and the Clement of Alexandria", in spite of they were not the Critical themselves, but they accepted a critical traditions, more older than their times, they have accepted whats said in The Second Book of Ezra 14.21,22 that "Nebuchadnezzar" the king of Babel ,took the books of the law and burned it, which urged Ezra to write it again . That accident was not true, because (1)Ezra { I mean the real Ezra not who mentioned himself as Ezra,He was just a writer of that Apocryphal writings}lives in a different time which proves that, he was not an eye wittiness, also he did not mention that he has a document to prove that opinion (2)the books of the law, were not only in Babel, but there were some people who remains in the sacred lands, between them were some prophets, like Jeremiah, who wrote his prophecy about that time, it is not acceptable to think that these religious persons ,who live in the remains, have not the books of the law (see Jeremiah25.12) (3)The writer of this passage did not refer to a trusted reference, to transmit this view to us,we may allow or accept his idea( if he has not a reference), in the case of, if he had a direct inspiration from God,but this assumption was not true ,according to the technical and historical reasons. (4). If Ezra (this later Ezra writes the books of the laws after the king who burned it,thats means that the Torah was in his mind or that he keeps the text in his mind thus the copy ( as he said ) were not the only copy but perhaps there were many of the Torah keepers, between the people(Nebuchadnezzer 605-562 BC-->the real Ezra458-398 BC) . in spite of the book was able to deceive some respectable men . These great men, were not have the right to report the facts as the inspired people, they were not prophets (with all our respect) they have some faults like what J.P Migne denotes in his "J.P Migne,PG,XCIV,688-89 about "John of Damasus"or Clement in his "Climent Homiletics, for example also the great "Anastasius the Sinait"who was the patriarch of Antioch at the seventeenth century,who said that he can not accept the "Torah" because in his point of view contains the book of "Genesis" which was full of mythologies(see J.P Migne,PG,LXXXIX,284,285) IT IS CLEAR that in spite of the real services which they have done for their churches, and for us, but they were, as all the people who repeat the views of others without some real study, in order to neglect what is said without a trusted bases,. Although we respect them very much, about some of their studies, but as we are Academic persons, we must not accept what did not established ,on the trusted resources------------------------------------------------we will continue the discussion later Rev.Joseph.
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