Sunday, August 2, 2009

THE AUTHOR OF THE TORAH-------------> 8:-( THE CRITICS HISTORY)

         "Julius Wellhausen" published his book"Die Komposition des Hexateuchs", It was clear from it's title ,that he was dealing with the "TORAH" ,as it was a humanly book, has a composition, like any book , forgetting the doctrine of the inspiration, accepting the opinion  of the late writing, putting it with the six books,( Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua) employing the two German words [Komposition,Hexateuchs] to proclaim his idea .                                                                                                                                              He began his theory to suggest that, between the oldest period of the writing, and the last time ,about 400years , It begins at 850 BC when the oldest document ( according to his opinion) "J" which was written by a writer, therefore he called it" RJ" it was the first document ,.                                                                                                                                                      At 750 BC another writer added "E", to compose the document "1RJE", the most strange suggestion was, his next one, to think that after 29 years only, some one changed it ,by adding and omitting some of its contents, from 621 BC to 550 BC, It was ridiculous to imagine that ,any one could change it ,after 29 years only ,because the generation who have accepted it, as a sacred writing, might not allow to some one, to change it and called his suggested document "2RJED" but when the "P" document appeared ,some one mixed it with "RJED" to be"3RJWDP" it means 3 writers who revised and collected across a long term of age, every one of the three documents, to mix it every time ,with the original suggested version  "J".                                                                                                                                                                      The first thing :-His book was full of faults, and reflected the effects of the theory of "Darwin" in his mind, for example, the style of the improving and the developing for the "TORAH", looks like "Darwin's"style ,about the developing stages in the life, and the shapes of the creatures .                                                                                                                                                                 The second thing::-His strange opinion to imagine that, the book was to record the effects of the society, although it was really the basic legal thought, which was written to affect , to change ,and to improve the situation ,and the attitude of the society from God, to change the present man's life to better.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         But in order to explain his thoughts, and let the chance to us to analyse it ,after8 essays , he imagined that, the idea of worshiping , have been developed from age to age ,at first the individual himself was responsible to worship, by slaying a sacrifice on behave of himself,.like what was done in the patriarchal ages, but it developed to be, by a priest as a professional person,And at last, it became a sacrifice, in a central place ,by a professional priest, to devote to one fixed God ,at a modern time, before or during the exile period ,                                      Not only this, but he maintained some stages, for this developing  periods, exactly as what "Darwin" has done, before and  during " Wellhausen's" themes, that is what we shall see later. Rev. Joseph

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