Sunday, August 23, 2009
A SCIENTIFIC REACTION ( Biblical - Archeological - Literal - Historical 13 )
"H.Gunkel" and "H.Gressmann"established the form criticism,after the failing of the school of "Wellhausen." . "H.Gunkel" compared between the "TORAH" and the other archeological manuscripts of the other cultures at "Moses" times . He suggested that the religious thinking ,among the Israelite nation ,was transmitted to the generation ,with some written books, although it was some knowledges in their memory, their fathers have transmitted it to them, while it belonged to many nations,by the time (as he suggested)they mixed what they have known from their fathers with what it was written in the books,thus ,even their doctrine in God, have been formed through many stages, according to the quantity, which they have accepted from the memory, which added it to the books . Therefore ,"Gunkel" delayed the the doctrine of the inspiration completely , since he thought that the written books were under the will,or the desire of the people ,who were not prophets . it is known to us that the oldest legal laws, during the patriarchal ages, before "Moses "were transmitted across the different generations, through the memory .therefore it was not a strange accident, to find some similarity, between what was in their memories ,and what was inspired by God to 'Moses" . It was some agreement, we do not deny it, but also some big differences . At last it is expected to find some manuscripts like what "Gunkel" have found . "Gunkel" failed in maintaining the form,of the original written source, which he have suggested . To argue with his thoughts ,we must analyse his theory , He puts us before three persons, the First who composed the books,the Second, the people who trust in this writting , the Third were the memories of the people who directed the thoughts of the people, which comes from the memories, and what was added across many ages to the written source[the form] .. To discover that form, we must ask him , Who is the speaker in that form? and, Who were the listeners? and ,Who were the persons who had the right to suggest the correction ,by adding or by omitting ? The logical and the recorded answers for these three questions are:- First the inspiration of God who wrote.by using the prophet .. Second the people of God who listened and obey. Third it was impossibility to find someone, who have authority to correct the thinking of the people, who was not a prophet .while the.prophet, was the first one who wrote ,that's means that there were not three, but two the prophet who wrote by the inspiration ,and the people who listened ,or reads ,and obey ,it was impossibility to find the third imagined group . "Gunkel" could not complete his task,"H.Gressmann"completed it, by publishing a serial books, called "Die Shriften des Alten Testaments ",1911 .In this collection, he have destroyed, the beautifulness of the stories of the "TORAH",also denied the existence of the inspiration, to pave the way for the "Scaninavian Formal School" .BUT "J.Pederson"who was one of this school ,announced that the documentary's theory ,gone forever.,and the "TORAH" was a memorized thoughts, have been written from its first beginning, in its common form,in a later time ."ZAW.XLIX"pp161-181,1931 and thus he added other problems, to the form schools as we shall see followed Rev. Joseph
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