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I'm not a historian, but historians posit alternative theories all the time, don't they?
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I don't necessarily agree with all the tenets of Cassuto's arguments, but if you have read them, and I have, at least the English translations, they must be addressed if you want to engage in a meaningful modern discussion of the Documentary Hypothesis. If you want to remain mired in the turn of the 20th century debate then remain with the simplistic explanation of the Documentary Hypothesis. You cannot ignore Kitchen if you wish to discuss certain archaeological and linguistic arguments as to OT historicity. Dismissing somebody because they may have bias, may be a lawyer's parlor trick, but it's not always the best route to ensure an examination of truth or a review of scholarly work. |
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Kitchen still lives, I believe, and is a chair at one of the English universities. His work centers around verifiable names, dates, events based on archaeological discoveries and existing liturgical and nonliturgical evidences. His work is quite technical, and for the most part, difficult to read, unless one is well-versed in the technicques of archaeology. There are others that address these others, but they are notable because their scholarship is of good quality, and in Cassuto's case helped cause scholars to relook at how the Documentary Hypothesis should be accepted. At first, scholars fell in love with the DH, using four sources, and the splitting into almost dozens of sources. Cassuto uses rabbinic traditions and an intimate understanding of the ancient languages to arrive at a conclusion supporting the Orthodox Jewish view that Moses compiled the Pentateuch. |
Here is a recent work by Kitchen that I have.
http://www.amazon.com/Reliability-Ol.../dp/0802849601 In some respects, the arguments are too technical for me to comment upon, other than to observe what they are. Here's a blog on him. http://biblicalstudiesorguk.blogspot...nt-in-its.html Here is a review critisizing Kitchen for his late dating of the Exodus. http://www.opc.org/review.html?review_id=41 Here is a review. http://www.denverseminary.edu/dj/articles2004/0100/0102 |
An outline of Cassuto.
http://www.dovidgottlieb.com/comment...Hypothesis.htm The book I have. http://www.amazon.com/Documentary-Hy.../dp/9657052351 wiki article on him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Cassuto One feel no shame in citing his work in one's arguments. |
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