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Originally Posted by Difflugia
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.
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Christianbook and eBooks.com have not dropped their prices as of this writing.
I would love to purchase this book. I was not aware of its existence. Unfortunately K4PC is exactly what I use, so I think that I'm going to wait to see how things develop, before purchasing the book. I'm not going to be doing much study of Old Testament source criticism anytime soon. What is your recommendation? I sure wish that it was still available as a PDF . . . .
Those who profess Christianity, and are conservatively-minded, believe that the Old Testament Documentary Hypothesis is false. The theory deals primarily, if not exclusively, with the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament, aka The Torah). In other parts of the Old Testament authorship of it is ascribed to Moses. The New Testament also ascribes authorship of it to Moses. In several places in the Gospels, Jesus, in fact, is quoted as attributing the Pentateuch to Moses. So, a theory ascribing authorship of the Pentateuch to different sources, instead, is incompatible with that thinking.
Thanks for your post. I got a late start on scrounging around for ebook bargains today, so I hadn't found the book yet myself. Might not have seen it at all had it not been for your post.