One of the World's Foremost Bible Experts Offers a Groundbreaking Presentation of the Five Books of Moses In The Bible with Sources Revealed , Richard Elliott Friedman offers a new, visual presentation of the Five Books of Moses -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy -- unlocking the complex and fascinating tapestry of their origins. Different colors and type styles allow readers to easily identify each of the distinct sources, showcasing Friedman's highly acclaimed and dynamic translation. “Very highly recommended.” - Library Journal “An amazing work. It makes the theory of the Bible’s origins available to all in a clear and concise way.” - David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion “A succinct, lucid, detailed exposition and defense of the classic Documentary Hypothesis--a highly useful resource.” - Eugene Ulrich, University of Notre Dame “A volume indispensable for study in Biblical history. No one can really understand the Bible’s composition without consulting this work.” - Baruch Halpern, Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University “An important and useful volume which should be on the book shelf of every serious student of the Bible.” - Frank Moore Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages Emeritus, Harvard University “Friedman’s The Bible with Sources Revealed is a paradigm of accessible scholarship of the highest order.” - Michael D. Coogan, Editor, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, The Oxford History of the Biblical World, and The Oxford Companion to the Bible “A fundamental resource for understanding what the Hebrew Bible is all about.” - Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University One of the World's Foremost Bible Experts Offers a Groundbreaking Presentation of the Five Books of Moses In The Bible with Sources Revealed , Richard Elliott Friedman offers a new, visual presentation of the Five Books of Moses -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy -- unlocking the complex and fascinating tapestry of their origins. Different colors and type styles allow readers to easily identify each of the distinct sources, showcasing Friedman's highly acclaimed and dynamic translation. RICHARD ELLIOTT FRIEDMAN is one of the premier bible scholars in the country. He earned his doctorate at Harvard and was a visiting fellow at Oxford and Cambridge, a Senior Fellow of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa. He is the Ann & Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia and the Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Commentary on the Torah, The Disappearance of God, The Hidden Book in the Bible, The Bible with Sources Revealed, The Bible Now, The Exile and Biblical Narrative, the bestselling Who Wrote the Bible? , and most recently, The Exodus . He was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and was elected to membership in The Biblical Colloquium. His books have been translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Korean, and French. He was a consultant for the Dreamworks film The Prince of Egypt , for Alice Hoffman's The Dovekeepers , and for NBC, A&E, PBS, and Nova. The Bible with Sources Revealed A New View Into the Five Books of Moses By Richard Elliott Friedman HarperSanFrancisco Copyright © 2005 Richard Elliott Friedman All right reserved. ISBN: 9780060730659 Excerpt Collection of Evidence The Seven Main Arguments The process of identifying the biblical sources took centuries. The process of refining our identifications of these sources has been ongoing, and itcontinues to the present day. Initially, it was a tentative division based onsimple factors: where the name of God appeared in the texts, similar storiesappearing twice in the texts, contradictions of fact between one text andanother. Accounts of this early identifying and refining may be found inmany introductions to this subject and in my Who Wrote the Bible? The collection of evidence here is not a review of that history of the subject. It is atabulation of the evidence that has emerged that establishes the hypothesis. It is grouped here in seven categories, which form the seven main arguments for the hypothesis in my judgment. 1. Linguistic When we separate the texts that have been identified with the varioussources, we find that they reflect the Hebrew language of several distinctperiods. The development of Hebrew that we observe through these successiveperiods indicates that: The Hebrew of J and E comes from the earliest stage of biblicalHebrew. - The Hebrew of P comes from a later stage of the language. - The Hebrew of the Deuteronomistic texts comes from a still laterstage of the language. - P co