Sunday, August 2, 2009
THE AUTHOR OF THE TORAH-------------->9:-(THE CRITICS HISTORY)
"Wellhausen's" point of view about the history of the worship ,was the real bases ,which all his assumptions have been established,IN BRIEF, he has divided the stages of the worship's development and history, into three stages ,as the following :- (1) The" ANIMISM " it was a theory, that separated between the spiritual existence as it was the source of the religious thoughts, and the individual's doctrine. The first man who used this expression was "E B Tylor" in his book "Primitive Culture" to define the religion, which was established by the normal sense of the man , while another person his name was "Stahl" ,told us about a vital effective basses, of the universe ,which agreed the human nature,The "POLYTHEISM " was during that stage of "ANIMISM",which means the worshiping for a collections of Gods. (2)The "HEATHENISM":- Through this stage the man described a superior power of a God, more than other Gods . The expression contains of two original Greek words "HEIS" which means over,and "THEOS" which means God . (3) The "Monotheism" "Wellhausen's" assumption was, that the man have reached to that idea ,after 8 centuries, of his first dealing with the idea of God's existing .He dated this stage by 850 years, before the Christ, during the reign of the king "Solomon" ,and using some data from 2 Samuel 24.5 and from1Kings3.2 where we found "David" who built an alter to slay the sacrifice,and in the days of "Solomon " before the temple there were many people who had their private Alters, which was contrasted [according to his theory] with the assumption of the" Tabernacle" existence ,as a place of the central worship,therefore, he suggested that the books of the laws ,or the "TORAH" has been written after the time of the kings,or after the building of the "Temple" of "Solomon" He suggested that the passage in "Isiah"60 ,which describing God as "The Exalted Almighty Lord" ,as a later high top, in the developing history ,among the people of the old testament . the logical theoritically thoughts of "Wellhausen" ,seemed to be right ,but in the practical experience, of the old testament people, all his themes failed. He did not accept that the "Tabernacle" and the centric worship during "Moses" times, were interrupted by the ignorant kings ,and Judges, and the weak political effects of the priests ,to interfere in the political affairs ,and the sovereignty of the kings ,over them which weakened the effects of the "Tabernacle" ,and the laws ,also the proofs from the "TORAH" that the people were not obedient ,also they used to imitate the pagan people ,or the nations around them, The books of the prophets recorded ,Who God have condemned the behavior of the kings ,according to the "TORAH", The legal bases .It is not the time of the argument now, with his thoughts, let us wait after 7 essays to find if "Wellhausen" is alive today, and sees the archeological evidences, and If he have studied the religious thoughts among the old Egyptians, and the other old nations ,I am sure that he will have been changed his mind,because what we have reached now ,is in fact, is the real answer for his imagined rules, we will continue examining his thoughts later . Rev. Joseph
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