Documentary Hypothesis or no?

[kmkemp]

Frankly, it doesn't improve upon rereading.

Somehow I'm not surprised.

Why should it? Why should a poll of people, many if not most of whom are devoid of anything resembling Biblical scholarship, bear any resemblance whatsoever to the views of "99% of all bible scholars"?

Perhaps you should come up with an alternative method for me to simulate what I'm looking for? If I heard that 99% of all sports experts expected the Patriots to win this weekend, the best I could do would be to poll a knowledgable sports forum. At no point did I assume RF was full of Biblical scholars. In fact, a good number of the people that will vote in this poll don't believe a thing that the Bible says so they will naturally vote against Moses' authorship.[/quote]

Certainly such a poll is worthless as a means of judging the DH. At best it gives an indication of the extent of the ignorance about it and the doctrinal bias against it. In other words, it says more about the 'voters' than about Wellhausen.

Do you always just claim bias if a poll doesn't say what you think it should?

Challenge: if you really believe that 99% or more of Bible scholars will support the DH, then find me a credible source saying as much.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

So, on the one hand we have Biblical scholarship, on the other hand we have you - and I am willing to bet that you have never read a single serious work on the Documentary Hypothesis. When faced with these two options, I would recommend that those interested avail themselves of the scholarship.

Obviously, our friend has absolutely no clue how popular the documentary hypothesis is.

When I read any scholarly work on Genesis (for example), the question really is not whether a particular scholar assents to the documentary hypothesis, but which specific redaction theory they are convinced is most likely correct.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Challenge: if you really believe that 99% or more of Bible scholars will support the DH, then find me a credible source saying as much.

Challenge: read the scholarship before declaring it "a load of crap".

 

[kmkemp]

I've read at least a couple different sources on the DH. It's pretty funny that you assume I am clueless here and deflect a very simple challenge (if it is so obvious that DH is 99% accepted).

 

[angellous_evangellous]

This sould do nicely. You can see bibliography for each source. It's obviously written for undergrads..... Part 1. Bibliography

The other thing you can do is access the entry for "Yahwist" in the Anchor Bible Dictionary. It's bibliography is pretty good. I would guess there are about 200 sources listed.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I've read at least a couple different sources on the DH. It's pretty funny that you assume I am clueless here and deflect a very simple challenge (if it is so obvious that DH is 99% accepted).

It may be more accurate to say that 99.9% of schoars accept it. The only place I've ever heard that has people who don't believe it are seminaries that have an ultra-conservative tendancy, and even then, they may not be Hebrew bible scholars, but simple bible thumpers who would lose their job if they had one critical thought pass through their brains. Even then, I'm sure they are a minority.

It's like the theory of evolution... all thinking people believe it, but there are a few holdouts. Not in science, but in Kansas churches.