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Difflugia · 11-04-2016, 02:26 PM

The Bible With Sources Revealed by Richard Elliott Friedman is $1.99.

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Amazon - Be aware that it shows not compatible with K4PC, so if you're using "The Tools", that may put a crimp in things.

Christianbook and eBooks.com both show $14.99, but may drop later.

Friedman's main field of scholarship is the Documentary Hypothesis and The Bible With Sources Revealed is the Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy) broken down into the individual sources as he sees them. Each different source is given a different color or typeface to make it easy to see the original sources as you read.

The epub version was badly incorrect for years (using only four different typefaces instead of the necessary ten), but they finally mostly fixed it. The current version correctly uses nine of ten; the Priestly source ("P") and the second Deuteronomist redactor ("Dtr2") were inadvertantly given the same typeface (P is supposed to be "Blue Sans", but is "Blue Bold" instead). I double-checked against the PDF version (no longer available, sadly) and the only place that it's ambiguous is Deuteronomy 34:8-9, which should be marked as belonging to the P source. Otherwise, Blue Bold is Dtr2 in Deuteronomy and P everywhere else.

If you're at all interested in source criticism, this is the book to have. If you're not sure what it's all about, the free sample includes the entire introduction, in which Friedman lays out the main lines of evidence for his scholarship.

11-04-2016, 02:26 PM	#1
Difflugia Testate Amoeba Posts: 3,049 Karma: 27300000 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Many Android devices, Kindle 2, Toshiba e755 PocketPC	The Bible With Sources Revealed is $1.99 The Bible With Sources Revealed by Richard Elliott Friedman is $1.99. Kobo B&N Amazon - Be aware that it shows not compatible with K4PC, so if you're using "The Tools", that may put a crimp in things. Christianbook and eBooks.com both show $14.99, but may drop later. Friedman's main field of scholarship is the Documentary Hypothesis and The Bible With Sources Revealed is the Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy) broken down into the individual sources as he sees them. Each different source is given a different color or typeface to make it easy to see the original sources as you read. The epub version was badly incorrect for years (using only four different typefaces instead of the necessary ten), but they finally mostly fixed it. The current version correctly uses nine of ten; the Priestly source ("P") and the second Deuteronomist redactor ("Dtr2") were inadvertantly given the same typeface (P is supposed to be "Blue Sans", but is "Blue Bold" instead). I double-checked against the PDF version (no longer available, sadly) and the only place that it's ambiguous is Deuteronomy 34:8-9, which should be marked as belonging to the P source. Otherwise, Blue Bold is Dtr2 in Deuteronomy and P everywhere else. If you're at all interested in source criticism, this is the book to have. If you're not sure what it's all about, the free sample includes the entire introduction, in which Friedman lays out the main lines of evidence for his scholarship. Last edited by Difflugia; 11-04-2016 at 03:05 PM.